Jonathan Greene wrote: > When it gets wonky for me, I find even thought it looks like it's not > running there's still an active process which needs to be killed. > Once that's gone, I can usually restart Modest without (immediate) > issue. > I've had that issue as well, and find the system load applet indispensable in tracking down and killing the offending process. But this problem seems to be different; I see no modest task running.