Hi all,
we are pleased to announce version 0.4 of Trojitá, 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 somethingswitch. 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 the detailed instructions. - 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 (GPG
signature). Prebuilt binaries for multiple distributions are available
via the OBS .
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, convicted and sent to jail. In 2014, Moscowians are protesting on a bigger scale, yet we all see the cops arresting them on Youtube — 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