On Wednesday, 12 June 2013 23:20:36 CEST, Vayu wrote:
I use fetchmail to feed all my mail to a local dovecot server. Do you know of a way to tell dovecot to give it to Trojita sorted?
Dovecot is one of the best IMAP servers on the market; Trojita will work just great with it. Also, the increased bandwidth will not really matter now that you're using a local IMAP server. That's a good point.
I understand the principle of protecting the user. I don't believe having a setting to allow automatic loading of images is unusual or difficult. If the concern is the user's safety, a warning upon unsetting would take care of that. This is a feature available in all the clients I've used and am not able to in Trojita. Protecting users is important, in this case it's restricting this user from his data, and in a way that's not commonly done.
I wouldn't say it's "restricting the user", but I agree that it's inconveniencing them -- they do have to click twice for each mail, once for the mail to show up, and the second time to load the images. There are other bits which will inconvenience the user; Trojita will, for example, just plainly refuse to send a mail without a subject. Sometimes this policy is just standing in the way (think mails for subscribing to various MLs), sometimes it improves the mail SNR by forcing the user to *think* before a mail could be sent. It's a compromise.
I like this program. So far the only things stopping me from using it are having to open a mail twice to read it
You mean the extra click on the "load remote images", right? Thinking about this and expanding on my domain-based filtering idea, perhaps the button could tell the user what domains the mail is trying to fetch from, and upon pressing it, save these settings (the domain of the image URL) persistently, so that this domain is whitelisted for all future messages. Maybe there could be two buttons, one to show the images temporarily, the other for making it a permanent option. Do you think this will work well for you?
and having to scroll to the bottom of a long list of mails to get to the newest one, every time I go to a folder.
This is supposed to work. What version are you using? Where does it scroll to in your situation? Cheers, Jan -- Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client -- http://trojita.flaska.net/
