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Trojita, a Qt IMAP e-mail client, and the Qt Developer Days
2012-11-12

I'm sitting on the first day of the Qt Developer Days in Berlin and am pretty impressed about the event so far -- the organizers have done an excellent job and everything feels very, very smooth here. Congratulations for that; I have a first-hand experience with organizing a workshop and can imagine the huge pile of work which these people have invested into making it rock. Well done I say.

It's been some time since I blogged about Trojitá, a fast and lightweight IMAP e-mail client. A lot of work has found the way in since the last release; Trojitá now supports almost all of the useful IMAP extensions including QRESYNC and CONDSTORE for blazingly fast mailbox synchronization or the CONTEXT=SEARCH for live-updated search results to name just a few. There've also been roughly 666 tons of bugfixes, optimizations, new features and tweaks. Trojitá is finally showing evidence of getting ready for being usable as a regular e-mail client, and it's exciting to see that process after 6+ years of working on that in my spare time. People are taking part in the development process; there has been a series of commits from Thomas Lübking of the kwin fame dealing with tricky QWidget issues, for example -- and it's great to see many usability glitches getting addressed.

The last nine months were rather hectic for me -- I got my Master's degree (the thesis was about Trojitá, of course), I started a new job (this time using Qt) and implemented quite some interesting stuff with Qt -- if you have always wondered how to integrate Ragel, a parser generator, with qmake, stay tuned for future posts.

Anyway, in case you are interested in using an extremely fast e-mail client implemented in pure Qt, give Trojitá a try. If you'd like to chat about it, feel free to drop me a mail or just stop me anywhere. We're always looking for contributors, so if you hit some annoying behavior, please do chime in and start hacking.

Cheers,
Jan

Tags: gentoo, kde, qt, trojita.