Any critic discussion about the actual state of the MUA in the UBports project is either just deleted, locked or sent to off-topic. I will think about if my active participation in this forum makes any sense.

Matthias

@TotalSonic said in MUA Geary for UBports:

... Frankly I don't see how Geary gives any advantage over the Dekko2 email client which works very well with a great interface for mobile devices already - ...

Best regards,
Steve Berson

I was surprised about your comment re/ Dekko2. I'm on the latest OTA-8 (stable) and Dekko2 version. Having three SMTP+IMAP accounts configured, for me Dekko2 in nearly unusable. I filed bug issue for all these problems:

• it crashes/blocks often on rendering a mail to view (I think mostly if the body is plain text);
• mails to send get queued but not sent; they end up in the Drafts folder; this happens mostly if one is on data mobile and with changed (network) locations; it helps a bit killing dekkod and restarting Dekko2 before creating the mail;
• incoming mails are presented twice in the Inbox when Dekko2 is running when the mail arrives (which is quite normal I think)
• I have around 1.2++ GByte cache now which can not be emptied without loosing the complete configuration of the three accounts;
• there is no pick-up of To: or Cc: addrs from contacts or history (which works nicely with the old Dekko);

For all this I now switched back to use my BQ M10 FHD which still runs the latest OTA of Canonical and the old Dekko. And that's also the reason for looking for alternatives (which Geary of course isn't as I got to know)

Matthias

Ok, just drop/ignore my question about Dekko.

The new question for the Q&A is: Does the UBports project need a MUA as a core app and if so, what must be done to get it.

@dobey said in Q&A 46 Saturday 23rd Of March At 19:00 UTC:

@guru said in Q&A 46 Saturday 23rd Of March At 19:00 UTC:

Which other MUA do we have as core app?

There is no MUA as a core app currently.

And dont you think that this issue is something which should be part of Q&A?

Which other MUA do we have as core app?

A bit triggered by a posting in puri.sm about the mobile Librem5, which is here: https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ and which shows an icon of the MUA Geary, I installed this on my FreeBSD laptop, a screenshot is here:

I'm asking, as geary is available for Ubuntu, and in Gnome for the Librem5, why we could not port it to our UBports system?

Please elaborate about the near future and milestones of Dekko2. I do not see any progress for weeks. During the day I use the MUA on my FreeBSD laptops (mutt), when I'm on "the road" I do (or try to) use Dekko2 in my BQ E4.5. Due to its ongoing crashes and other issues (see the tracker) I'm forced to return to my M10 FHD which still runs the latest UT version of Canonical with the old Dekko

This situation is, at least for me, really a showstopper.

Thanks

Matthias

Is there any chance that anybody says something about the future of Dekko2 in UBports?

Thanks

matthias (using an UT M10 FHD, which still runs nicely Dekko)

There is an EU law initiative underway against the RF device tinkering by OpenSource (and other) projects, which might effect us with out UBports devices. More details here:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/11/eu_directive_ban_rf_radio_firmware_tinkering/

@Loops said in Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Is Here !!:

@domubpkm That is simply the dark theme from DuckDuckGo, click the burger menu in the top-right and choose the black/grey theme

I'm now on OTA-8 but have no theme setting in the hamburger menu of the Morph browser.