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Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by jcoder »

js2 wrote: post #54
darxius wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

OS X's Mail.app with https://gpgtools.org/gpgmail/index.html for GPG?

Unfortunately it's apparently very difficult to keep up with Apple Mail. There's not a public api for the project to hook into, so GPG support always lags new releases of Mail.app by quite a while. 10.8 still does not have a public release of GPGMail.

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by akkartik »

cksk wrote: post #75
jfb wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Emacs + mu + mu4e, with offlineimap. I need to switch to isync, because offlineimap is pants.

Same here, but, if you use it with Gmail, let me recommend Abdó Roig-Maranges' fork of offlineimap, which implements labels[1][2]! That way you can sync only [Gmail].All Mail and all the other info (such as /Inbox, /Sent and any other custom labels) come as X-Keywords in the header (no duplicates, and no lost metadata)[3]. And mu4e supports all this[4]! [1] https://github.com/aroig/offlineimap [2] The homebrew tap, i…

I've bookmarked your comment. I'm gonna be forced to move back to commandline when gmail finally foists the new compose on me (fuckers[1]).

[1] Some of us want to, you know, use email for longer messages than a tweet. It's hard to do that when PgUp/PgDn are so janky. And don't even get me started on S-PgUp and S-PgDn.

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by js2 »

jcoder wrote: post #81
js2 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OS X's Mail.app with https://gpgtools.org/gpgmail/index.html for GPG?

Unfortunately it's apparently very difficult to keep up with Apple Mail. There's not a public api for the project to hook into, so GPG support always lags new releases of Mail.app by quite a while. 10.8 still does not have a public release of GPGMail.

Drat, sorry. :(

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by simfoo »

jkt_ wrote: post #53
simfoo wrote: post #32

Not a single word about Windows support on the website. Since its only requirement is Qt > 4.8 it shouldn't be a problem though.

Nobody builds the Windows binaries regularly. Last time I did so, it worked without any problem. If you'd like to help maintain the Windows port, I'll be happy to have you on board.

I will take a look and see if I can compile it

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by X4 »

mellamoyo wrote: post #62
pyre wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last time I tried Claws mail (which was years ago) the interface left something to be desired. It was too cluttered, and difficult to use on a small (1024x768) screen.

+1 I've had the same experience.

And that didn't change when I opened Claws today

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by X4 »

jeltz wrote: post #47
TsiCClawOfLight wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

evolution?

Last time I checked evolution too had performance problems and was buggy. No idea if that has changed in the last 2 or 3 years.

I really liked evolution, but after using it for a while I noticed how hard it is to keep things organized with it. So I went back to Thunderbird.

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by jkt_ »

Tobu wrote: post #65
dragansah wrote: post #16

I hope it stands out it's promisses. My Gmail account is not usable on any gnu/linux IMAP client.

It does stay responsive while scanning a large (200k) [Gmail]/All mail folder, but apparently it has a single connection to Gmail because no other folders or messages can be obtained during the download. After about five minutes it has a basic list of headers (but not the subjects) and there seems to be more concurrency. It would be better if it chunked the large scan and allowed other operations to complete (assumin…

Interesting, because the only slow action when opening mailboxes is fetching and applying the thread index, and gmail does not support that particular feature. Which means I don't really know how it can take a "few minutes" on GMail -- all it does it simply fetching the UIDs...

Re: Trojita: an IMAP mail client

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Post by jordanmoore_ »

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…

I don't think it's about being close-minded, if you name a word suggestively close to something negative then you'll get negative associations with it. It's not rocket science.

Imagine a condom brand named "Leakys".

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