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Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by Confusion »

adlpz wrote: post #12
martin-adams wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The 'Trojan' brand is primarily an American brand, so a lot of people aren't getting this.

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by jeltz »

durin42 wrote: post #14
adlpz wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Actually this is what creates the mess. If gmail had exported labels as flags an IMAP client should be able to re-implement the gmail folders.

EDIT: The mess I refer to is that your emails will be duplicated if they have multiple labels.

EDIT2: Hmm, actually I am not sure how good the support for custom IMAP flags is.

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by kerneis »

readme wrote: post #18

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

The author of the original message (jch) wrote elsewhere:

"The mailer is the result of an M.Sc. project, and is described in detail in Jan's thesis.

http://trojita.flaska.net/msc-thesis.pdf

In short, Trojitá is a pure IMAP client, written from the ground up to work well over IMAP with no support for any other kind of mailbox. It synchronizes stuff lazily, and (something that's close to my heart), is extremely aggressive about pipelining. I haven't read the source code in detail yet, so I haven't checked how the low level code is implemented, I'll let you know when I learn more. For now, if you're interested, I warmly recommend reading chapters 1 through 3 of Jan's thesis."

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by riquito »

davidw wrote: post #15
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…

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.

And we (italian) speak about the city of Troy without any shame because has a completely different meaning, so I don't see any problem in speaking about Trojita at work (which is also a nonexistent word in italian, opposite to the translation of Troy)

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by darxius »

mellamoyo wrote: post #4

I don't see GPG/PGP integration. I have been looking for a lightweight, multi-platform offline capable IMAP client with good GPG/PGP encryption for awhile now, and nothing seems to quite fit the bill.

I'm also looking for something similar for OSX/Linux. I'd love to move my "life" away from services like gmail (not that I have anything against it, just don't like having all my data that far away from me).

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by andyking »

davidw wrote: post #15
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…

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.

I live in Penistone. After a few giggles when I first moved there, you just stop noticing after a while.

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by migtav »

readme wrote: post #18

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

Speed. I sometimes try it with my IMAP server (dovecot, around 15GB of email) and it's blazing fast to browse the folders. It also is quite a light feather (~20 MB of memory).

Claws-email is another very fast and very light email client.

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