Thanks, Fred. That is what I do also; however, I also travel a lot and whenever the mail package polls it lights up the screen (even when locked). I use my N800 as my alarm clock and having the screen 'awake' when it polls (actually when it finds an e-mail to download) is very irritating as I shutdown my e-mail package @ home when I'm on the road. I do agree about setting a default mail program - that would be a great feature! Nokia...... :-) And there's no question about the seamless upgrades - totally agree. Nick. -----Original Message----- From: maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of drfredc at drfredc.com Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 5:08 PM To: Dr. Nicholas Shaw Cc: maemo-users at maemo.org Subject: Re: N800 Mail Question Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: > I don't use Claws. I use the mail program that came with the N800. Prior > to the release I installed in August (not the recent patch release) I could > tell the mail program not to automatically poll for mail. > > Under 'tools', 'settings' there is a checkbox to 'update automatically.' It > is unchecked; however, mail still polls as long as a network connection > exists. This is very frustrating. > > Is anyone else having this problem? Even if I were to upgrade to Claws, that > wouldn't stop this mail package from polling... > I see the "email polling" as more of a feature than a problem. My SOP is to just ignore the built in email program as much as possible. The polling is a very minor side show in most respects. As part of ignoring it, I set it so it deletes mails older than a couple days old... or something like that. It would be nice to be able to configure Claws (or whatever email program one uses) as the default email program. I suppose that will happen at some point as development moves forward. For all I know, it's possible now, if one knows how to poke the right buttons. IMHO, there's other things that ought to take a higher priority, like seemless OS upgrades. Always, Fred _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users at maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
