Proposal: (No?) email client for Ubuntu 17.10

Khurshid Alam khurshid.alam at linuxmail.org
Wed Apr 19 13:50:45 UTC 2017


On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I used geary briefly yesterday and here are a few issues I saw:
> 1. The latest released version still uses webkit1 (the next version
> will use webkit2gtk though)
> 2. Does not use GNOME Online Accounts
> 3. Does not appear to support Google Two-Factor Authentication
> 4. No support for GPG/PGP signing or encryption
> 5. No POP3 support (This might not be a bad thing though)

1. Yes. And next release is happening soon....way before 17.10 release.

2. WIP: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714876
It picked up some activities lately 
(https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768975),
so it may get fixed in next release.

3. Known issue. There is work-around describe here: 
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/FAQ#Using_Google.2BIBk-s_2-Step_authentication

4. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713403



Thanks.



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