Don't you think you make a good case for using imap? On 1/4/08, Matt Emson <memsom at interalpha.co.uk> wrote: > Dirk-Jan.Binnema at nokia.com wrote: > > Hi Dirk, > > Modest is an extremely nice application, nice work! > > Not without changing the source code and recompiling, no. (the change > > isn't too hard, search for the places where MODEST_DIR is used). > > > > Anything particular reason you want to have your ~/.modest elsewhere? > > > Device memory is finite. The larger your mailbox, the more data is > stored. I for one regularly leave all my mail on my pop3 server to allow > multiple mail clients to sync over time (one at home, one at work, N800). > > One potential bug to add to the list (I know this should be a thread, > but I'm not sure if it's just me or really an issue): > > I have, as stated, regularly 15000+ emails on my pop3 server account. > Modest handles this up to a point, but if I delete a lot of the > historical messages, it goes completely bezerk. It then takes 5 - 10 > minutes to sync every time the mail is checked, yet if I delete the > account and re-create it with the same setting, all is fine again. It > looks like it tries to verify the email exists still every time. Surely > this is not right? Whilst it was taking a long time to sync, I deleted > all the mail in the inbox to see if that would help. Unfortunately, this > had no effect. I'm wondering what will happen when my main email > instance deletes the trailing emails from the account (should only leave > 30 days worth, but I tend only to do that once every 2 - 3 months these > days.) > > Hope that helps, > > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- Jonathan Greene +1.914.750.8740 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene at gmail.com Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com
