Hi Rowan,
thanks for your interest, answers are below. I'm afraid I'll disappoint
you, Trojita is not yet at the functionality level you seem to be
looking for.
On 08/16/12 14:47, R Ceunt wrote:
I was just wondering if there is any support already or planned for
dealing with meeting requests. What will Trojita do when it receives
an invitation for a meeting? Is there any integration with a calendar?
Trojita doesn't include a calendar, so it will treat the
invitation/request as any other attachment. At this point, it can only
save it to a file, but in near future, I'll add an option to directly
"open" the attachments with an associated application [1]. This means
that you'll be able to just click on the meeting request and it will get
integrated into your calendar software.
If you have a particular need for something more, I'll love to hear
about your use cases.
Another question I had was whether it is possible to assign delegates,
i.e. people who are able to read e-mail sent to me or who are able to
send e-mail on my behalf?
There is an IMAP protocol extension for managing the access control
lists which -- if you're using an IMAP server supporting this extension
-- would allow for that. Trojita doesn't include support for managing
the ACLs (so you won't be able to tell the server "hey, share my INBOX
with Bob" just yet), but it will see the shared folders from other users
fine.
However, as you appear to be using GMail, you are probably out of luck
-- to the best of my knowledge, their IMAP implementation does not
support this functionality.
Having multiple identities for outgoing e-mails in Trojita is definitely
planned in future.
Something else, will it be possible to save messages to a file, for
instance the file for a specific business client?
That is a reasonable feature; I've added a feature request for this one
[2]. It won't be hard to implement.
However, I'm a bit confused by your phrase "the file for a specific
business client". If you'd like to move messages from a particular
sender to a given mailbox, it's possible already.
Finally, I was wondering whether message encryption is supported or
will be supported in the future?
It isn't supported, but given that it's a feature I use myself, it will
get implemented eventually.
Apologies for asking so many questions. I am not a developer, but I am
looking around for an e-mail client to use within a business and want
it to be ready for a business scenario, but also have a general
preference for applications which focus on the core task (but are at
the same time able to integrate with other applications, for instance
a calendar application). I'm not terribly fond of something like
Outlook, which tries to do everything, but is a bit chaotic.
My goal is to have Trojita reach such a status and be usable for
ordinary people, including in the business scenarios, and to interact
well with other applications. However, I have to admit that it will take
a long time before the required features are added and ready for their
prime time. In the meanwhile, I'd suggest looking at Thunderbird, it
might contain a fair share of the features you're looking for.
With kind regards,
Jan
[1] https://projects.flaska.net/issues/542
[2] https://projects.flaska.net/issues/543
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