Hi all,
we are pleased to announce version 0.4 of Trojitá [1], a fast Qt IMAP
e-mail client. For this release, a lot of changes were made under the hood,
but of course there are some changes that are visible to the user as well.
Improvements:
* Users are able to use multiple sessions, which means that it is possible
to use Trojitá with multiple IMAP accounts at the same time. It can be used
by invoking Trojitá with the `--profile something` switch. For each
profile, a new instance of the application is started. Please note that
this is not our final solution for the multi-accounts problem; work on this
is ongoing. For details, refer to [2].
* In the Composer Window, users can now control whether the current message
is a reply to some other message. Hopefully, this will make it easier to
reply to a ton of people while starting a new thread, not lumping the
unrelated conversations together.
* Trojitá will now detect changes to the network connection state. So for
example, when a user switches from a wireless connection to a wired one,
Trojitá will detect that and try to reconnect automatically.
* Trojitá gained a setting to automatically use the system proxy settings.
* SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies are supported.
* Memory usage has been reduced and speed has been improved. Our benchmarks
indicate being ten times faster when syncing huge mailboxes, and using 38%
less memory at the same time.
* The Compose Window supports editing the "From" field with hand-picked
addresses as per common user requests.
This release has been tagged in git as "v0.4". You can also download a
tarball [3], GPG signature [4]. Prebuilt binaries for multiple
distributions are available via the OBS [5].
This release is dedicated to the people of all nations living in Ukraine.
We are no fans of political messages in software announcements, but we also
cannot remain silent when unmarked Russian troops are marching over a free
country. The Trojitá project was founded in a republic formerly known as
Czechoslovakia. We were "protected" by foreign aggressors twice in the 20th
century — first in 1938 by the Nazi Germany, and second time in 1968 by the
occupation forces of the USSR. Back in 1938, Adolf Hitler used the same
rhetorics we hear today: that a national minority was oppressed. In 1968,
eight people who protested against the occupation in Moscow were detained
within a couple of minutes [6], convicted and sent to jail. In 2014,
Moscowians are protesting on a bigger scale, yet we all see the cops
arresting them on Youtube [7] — including those displaying blank signs.
This is not about politics, this is about morality. What is happening today
in Ukraine is a barbaric act, an occupation of an innocent country which
has done nothing but stopped being attracted to their more prominent
eastern neighbor. No matter what one thinks about the international
politics and the Crimean independence, this is an act which must be
condemned and fiercely fought against. There isn't much what we could do,
so we hope that at least this symbolic act will let the Ukrainians know
that the world's thoughts are with them in this dire moment. За вашу и нашу
свободу, indeed!
Finally, we would like to thank Jai Luthra, Danny Rim, Benjamin Kaiser and
Yazeed Zoabi, our Google Code-In students, and Stephan Platz, Karan Luthra,
Tomasz Kalkosiński and Luigi Toscano, people who recently joined Trojitá,
for their code contributions.
The Trojitá developers
Jan Kundrát
Yuri Chornoivan
Karan Luthra
Pali Rohár
Tomasz Kalkosiński
Christian Degenkolb
Jai Luthra
Stephan Platz
Thomas Lübking
[1] http://trojita.flaska.net/
[2]
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=trojita.git&a=commit&h=fe1f6e72b9ad0bbc2a3375b2665b0a9fea75c6b8
[3]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/trojita/files/src/trojita-0.4.tar.bz2/download
[4]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/trojita/files/src/trojita-0.4.tar.bz2.asc/download
[5]
http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ajkt-gentoo%3Atrojita&package=trojita
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Red_Square_demonstration
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frETjg70VrU
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Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client -- http://trojita.flaska.net/
