Trojitá () is a

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and

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developed using the Qt

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library. The design goals of the maintainers are to develop a fast e-mail client which respects open standards, is cross-platform and uses the available resources very efficiently. Trojitá offers to manage contacts in the abook format, as introduced by the

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''abook addressbook program''. In Autumn 2012, Trojitá became a part of the

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community.

History

In 2006, the project started as a private exercise in programming of Jan Kundrát. As a part of his studies, Trojitá became a topic of the author's bachelor and master's theses, making a debut in 2009. In 2010, Jan was briefly contracted to work on Trojitá for a system integrator, but the project was cancelled for external reasons. After Jan's graduation, the governance of the project opened up and Trojitá moved beneath the

umbrella. As a part of the KDE community, Trojitá gained new contributors and was translated into thirty-three languages. Since 2012, Trojitá took part in two rounds each of

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as well as

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competitions. As of 2016, Trojitá includes contributions from more than sixty developers. Trojitá is the e-mail engine used for mail synchronization within the

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's Postbooks ERP project. It was also planned to become the e-mail engine used in the

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mobile handsets until Canonical forked the code.

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