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tuxcrafter is offline tuxcrafter
2010-05-21 , 09:00
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#1
Hello everybody,

I posted a question on the modest-users mailing-list, but so far no responses. I heard the forum was more active so here i am giving it a shot:

https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/m...ay/000055.html
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I configured a Google apps (Gmail like) account with the GUI options 
available. It works mostly but there are some points that I would like 
to be helped with.

1. Gmail does automatic place messages in the [Gmail]/Sent directory. 
How can I stop modest from moving messages to the send directory it 
created? and tag the [Gmail]/Sent as a special directory for sent 
messages?

2. Drafts should be placed in [Gmail]/Drafts how can I do this.

3. Trash messages should be marked as trash only and be disabled from 
displaying. Gmail will delete and move the marked message to 
[Gmail]/Trash.

4. How can I search trough messages in the [Gmail]/All Mail directory?

See also:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892

I have a ssh connection to the Nokia N900. Would it be possible to 
give me a list with gconf commands to configure the above
Thanks in advance,

Jelle
Last edited by chemist; 2010-05-21 at 09:23.
 
Netweaver is offline Netweaver
2010-05-21 , 09:16
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#2
bump, I'm also suffering from these stupid "deleted but not trashed" emails.

I'm just not quite sure it's something Modest can correct, it might be the IMAP implementation of gmail causing these issues. One should compare the behaviour of other IMAP clients using also a gmail account and see if it's the same behaviour.
 
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chemist is offline chemist
2010-05-21 , 09:17
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#3
Have a look at bugs.maemo.org
for 1. and 2. we have https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2557
so a "NO" on those for now.
for 3. that is special behavior of gmail you are asking for that has nothing to do with modest (means it is a setting at gmail not at modest what happens with deleted mails. For me deleted mails wont get moved to trash but purged instantly!)
4. Imap itself is not providing this, you need to open all folders and check all mail for this to happen, the gmail-webfrontend may do that and others too but a simple mail program wont keep your emails indexed like google does. Maybe there is an API ready from google and you request to implement it with modest!
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tuxcrafter is offline tuxcrafter
2010-05-21 , 09:52
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Originally Posted by chemist View Post
Have a look at bugs.maemo.org
for 1. and 2. we have https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2557
so a "NO" on those for now.
for 3. that is special behavior of gmail you are asking for that has nothing to do with modest (means it is a setting at gmail not at modest what happens with deleted mails. For me deleted mails wont get moved to trash but purged instantly!)
4. Imap itself is not providing this, you need to open all folders and check all mail for this to happen, the gmail-webfrontend may do that and others too but a simple mail program wont keep your emails indexed like google does. Maybe there is an API ready from google and you request to implement it with modest!

Thank you for the fast response: Nothing on the request is really Gmail specific.

3. The mark messages as trashed and stop displaying them is supported in IMAP and a lot of the IMAP clients, (Thunderbird, roundcube for example)
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#page-11
set \Deleted flag set and dont display messages with \Deleted flag set. (so no \Deleted and \EXPUNGE, gmail wil do the EXPUNGE)

4. Searching for messages by the imap server (different ways) , is also supported in the IMAP protocol.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-6.4.4

I never use the Gmail webmail stuff, so I have no idea about that interface, I use IMAP only.

Thanks in advance,

Kind regards,

Jelle
Last edited by tuxcrafter; 2010-05-21 at 10:04.
 
tuxcrafter is offline tuxcrafter
2010-05-21 , 09:58
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Some more information about 1 and 2:

I would just like to be able to set the option that are available in the screenshot (mozilla thunderbird/icedove) no GUI options are needed, but some gconf or configuration file command would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Jelle
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sxc is offline sxc
2010-05-22 , 07:49
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#6
Some of the features you (rightfully IMHO) take for granted, such as the one Chemist refers to above are simply not provided by Modest on the N900.

You may want to visit the Modest Brainstorm and vote for and/or add the features you need...

This may well be our best chance to get Nokia to address those deficiencies.
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