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Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by adlpz »

martin-adams wrote: post #9
adlpz wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really hope people are not that close-minded, seriously... By the way, from the wiki: It's a cool name. What does it mean and how should I pronounce that word? It's a Czech word which means "triple". The meaning is an inside joke related to a Czech pseudo-word, blésmrt. The whole story is inspired by Mutt's "all e-mail clients suck, this one just sucks less". The real pronounciation is rather hard for English speak…

Trojan also came to my mind at first thought because I have no other basis of the meaning of Trojita in English. For me it's not about being close-minded, it's about the mind making quick decisions whether to engage or discard information.

Maybe it's because English is not my first language then. Still, you could have thought of IMAP-Powered condoms, that would have been funnier.

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by StavrosK »

adlpz wrote: post #5
jordanmoore_ wrote: post #3

Gut reaction: Trojita isn't far off Trojan. I think people will have issues with that.

I really hope people are not that close-minded, seriously... By the way, from the wiki: It's a cool name. What does it mean and how should I pronounce that word? It's a Czech word which means "triple". The meaning is an inside joke related to a Czech pseudo-word, blésmrt. The whole story is inspired by Mutt's "all e-mail clients suck, this one just sucks less". The real pronounciation is rather hard for English speak…

When I saw the title, I thought it would be about a mail client that was somehow insidiously stealing your passwords.

Just another data point.

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by durin42 »

adlpz wrote: post #7
moondowner wrote: post #2

How does it handle Gmail (labels, conversations..) ?

About labels, I believe they are sort of in the IMAP spec as keywords or something like that, so if Gmail is being nice, they should work. About conversations, I read that Gmail does some client-side sorcery with In-Reply-To headers for that, so if this client does the same, it should work.

Gmail exports labels as IMAP folders, so it should be fine?

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by davidw »

adlpz wrote: post #5
jordanmoore_ wrote: post #3

Gut reaction: Trojita isn't far off Trojan. I think people will have issues with that.

I really hope people are not that close-minded, seriously... By the way, from the wiki: It's a cool name. What does it mean and how should I pronounce that word? It's a Czech word which means "triple". The meaning is an inside joke related to a Czech pseudo-word, blésmrt. The whole story is inspired by Mutt's "all e-mail clients suck, this one just sucks less". The real pronounciation is rather hard for English speak…

In Italian, "troia" means "whore", as well as the ancient city of Troy. Italian uses "ina" or "etta" as diminuitive suffixes, rather than the Spanish "ita", but still... I don't know that I'd want to be discussing it at work.

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by w0utert »

readme wrote: post #18

What's the advantage over thunderbird besides being written in Qt.

I can imagine there are many, in day-to-day use I find Thunderbird to be one of the worst e-mail clients I've ever used. Slow, unstable, makes simple things hard (try to configure an LDAP address book) and many basic features simply don't work (IMAP search for example).
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