Managing IMAP accounts with Trojitá

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From issue 25 / 2015

Netting Mail

Martin Steigerwald

Gone are the days when we read email solely sitting at our computers. To read messages on the move, we now have IMAP, which has completely displaced POP. Trojitá makes IMAP easy, even with accounts with big folders.

The large KDE SC and Gnome desktop environments include extensive groupware functions with KMail and Evolution. However, until recently no mail program has existed for the Qt environment that just manages mails, such as Claws Mail and Sylpheed do for GTK.

In 2006, Jan Kundrát developed Trojitá [1] as a Qt/C++ application [2] based on an earlier attempt in Python. He describes the background in a series of blog articles [3], including what he didn't like about other IMAP clients and what motivated him to start his current project [4].

Kundrát explained why simply improving KMail, which at the time was not yet based on Akonadi [5], wasn't the answer. His reason was primarily the current IMAP structure, which was used in many places, and still is, but has some flaws. Even today, KMail still doesn't support deleting emails from other IMAP clients with the corresponding flag [6].

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