mail client release , intended for use in the GNOME environment. The project was originally founded by the Yorba Foundation, which created the popular Shotwell photo manager, but later the development was taken over by the GNOME community. The code is written in Vala and distributed under the LGPL license. Ready builds will soon be prepared for Ubuntu () and in the form of a self-sufficient package .
The goal of the development of the project is to create a product rich in features, but at the same time extremely easy to use and consuming a minimum of resources. The mail client is designed for both stand-alone use and to work in conjunction with web-based mail services such as Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. The interface is implemented using the GTK3+ library. The SQLite database is used to store the message base, and a full-text index is created to search through the message base. To work with IMAP, a new library based on GObject is used, which works in asynchronous mode (mail download operations do not block the interface).
Key innovations:
- Improved interface for selecting a recipient, including support for email auto-completion;
- Improved integration with GNOME's shared address book, including the ability to add and edit contacts;
- Ability to check spelling in the subject field;
- Support for Outlook-specific email attachments in the format (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format);
- New inspection window for real-time debugging;
- Minor interface optimizations and icon updates;
- Improved compatibility with email services;
- Improved background synchronization mode.
Main features of Geary:
- Support for creating and viewing mail messages, sending and receiving mail, sending a response to all respondents and redirecting a message;
- WYSIWYG editor for creating messages using HTML markup (using webkitgtk), with support for spell checking, font selection, color highlighting, inserting links, adding indents, etc.;
- The function of grouping messages by discussion. Several modes for displaying messages in discussions. So far, only sequential viewing of messages in the discussion is available, but a tree view with a visual selection of threads will soon appear. A useful feature is that in addition to the current message, you can immediately see the previous and next message in the discussion (messages scroll through a continuous feed), which is very convenient when reading mailing lists. For each message, the number of replies is shown;
- Ability to mark individual messages (setting flags and marking with an asterisk);
- Fast and instantly called search in the database of messages (in the style of Firefox);
- Support for working with several mail accounts at the same time;
- Support for seamless integration with webmail services such as Gmail, Mobile Me, Yahoo! Mail and Outlook.com
- Full support for IMAP and message synchronization tools. Full compatibility with popular IMAP servers, including Dovecot;
- Ability to control via hotkeys. For example, Ctrl+N to write a message, Ctrl+R to reply, Ctrl+Shift+R to reply to all participants, Del to archive mail;
- Mail archiving tools;
- Support for offline work;
- Support for internationalization and translation of the interface into several languages;
- Auto-completion of entered email addresses in the process of writing a message;
- The presence of applets for displaying notifications about the receipt of new letters in the GNOME Shell;
- Full support for SSL and STARTTLS.
Source: opennet.ru