Thanks for the idea, Addison, but it didn't work for me.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's a permissions issue. I did set up a POP gmail account, and that one worked. The IMAP one does not (I just re-checked the settings listed on gmail to make sure they were right).

So then I did a ping to imap.gmail.com, and it responded correctly, but it surprised me that I needed to type 'sudo' to get ping working correctly. Shouldn't ping be available to 'user'?

I then was trying to fire up modest from command line from 'user' or 'root', but it does not fire up from the command line (in osso_xterm) -- which I would expect it would.

Maybe all this is normal.

I sometimes ssh onto my n810, which necessitates being user 'root', and maybe I screwed up some permission at one time that modest needs. Maybe it can't delete some file related to gmail that it wants to when I re-set it up.

-Chris