Hi Matt, > -----Original Message----- > From: ext Matt Emson [mailto:memsom at interalpha.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 14:00 > To: Binnema Dirk-Jan (Nokia-D/Helsinki); maemo-users at maemo.org > Subject: Re: modest persistence > > 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). Well, of course just because ~/.modest is on device, does not mean you'd have to keep all your mail there, as you can put it in the folders on the MMC card. > 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.) Hmmm... we're constantly trying to make really big mailboxes (like yours) feasible too. And there are still some places where it doesn't work as well as we'd like... Feel free to file a bug for that; bugs.maemo.org Best wishes, Dirk.
