Email client fails
 

Nine times our of ten, when I open the email client by selecting "View Inbox" it wil say "loading Email" for about 20 seconds, then fail.

Am I doing something wrong?

Re: Email client fails
 

Yes: You're using the email client.

Seriously: The built in email client is massively excrementy. If you want to use email on the 770/N800, either go for a web-based account (Google mail) or use Sylpheed, ported by Affleg (http://www.bleb.org/software/770/).

Pine works as well (in the application catalog), but that one is a console-based application, without the funky windows and the mousey and the pretty colours. :rolleyes:

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my 770 doesn't have a mousey!!! I want a refund!

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Thanks for the tip, but I think my problem is more systemic than that. I downloaded Sylpheed and installed it, got a message saying it installed successfully but when I run it it says loading then fails just like the email client did. I also have MaemoPad in my Extras folder, and that does the same thing.

Being a total Linux NOOB I haven't the faintest idea about how to read a log file, or where it is for that matter. All I know is they fail to load!

HELP!!!

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Sorry. I'm a gmail man; I only mentioned Sylpheed because I like Aflegg :D, I don't use it myself.

I tried Maemopad (you're talking about the editor, not about the Magnificent MaemoPad+, right?) for about ten seconds, then threw it out and installed Leafpad, which actually works.

I wonder if you may have a library missing somewhere. There are several threads about Sylpheed on this forum, maybe your answer is lurking in one of them?

Re: Email client fails
 

Yes I use gmail too, and it works. My RoadRunner webmail uses Javascript so of course Opera can’t handle that.

I don’t know, I just installed the one in the repository, more as practice installing software than anything else. I’ve never gotten it to work so I don’t even know if I like it.

I would think that if I have a library problem, the email client would never work. As it is, it will start maybe one in ten or twenty times. As I said I have never gotten Maemopad or Sylpheed to work, so they could be a different problem. I don’t know how to access a log file to tell.

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I decided to use GMail but was dissapointed to see that the spell checker doesn't work in Opera - Really need the spell chekker. Any hope it will work with an Opera revision?

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Had the same email client problem.
Went to Tools Connection_Manager
then
Connection_Manager menu at top of screen
Tools
Connectivity_Settings

Set to Manual.

The system reboots have stopped and the mail client is behaving better.
I suspect the mail client thread for checking mailboxes was hanging during scan for access points and preventing the mail client from opening.

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Can I assume you mean set "Connect Automatically" to none?

If that be the case, I have done that but have not thouroughly tested it yet. So far so go though. the email client seems to start every time.

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There are problems with Sylpheed on N800's caused by libxau0, because of library changes between Maemo 2.1 (which it was compiled for) and Maemo 3.0 (basis of the N800).

I've not had a chance to resolve these yet, or even work out a decent workflow for compiling the same source in n different environments (Maemo 2.2 PC, Maemo 2.2 ARMEL, Maemo 3.0 PC, Maemo 3.0 ARMEL - each taking up a couple of gigs of space and a rather tedious manual workflow).

Re: Email client fails
 

Still fails to start reliably, but it seems to work a little better than before.

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Hey, how timely. This just started happening to me today. ("Starting E-Mail" appears for 10-15 seconds, then nothing whatsoever happens.)

This thing is so irreperably useless, I think I might start using it to prop open the broken window in the bathroom.

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;) I do not know how everyone else uses ( or wants to use ) the builtin Email Client of the Nokia ITs. After reading all the issues and problems associated with it, I never really thought of bothering to use it. Also, if this has been done by someone else here at ITT before then, sorry to be repeating the matter in this post.

But just for the sake of it, I started mucking around with it last weekend. I am happy to say that I was able to make it work. This is to say that I have been able to configure the Email Client to fetch my gmail email without essentially sigining on to the gmail website. So now, I can simply turn on my Nokia 770 ( latest OS) and open the Email Client and tap ' Send/Receive '. This will make the Email Client to sign on to a nearby AP ( used before ) and then to Gmail and fetch the new Emails.

Here, I have to say that, I not yet tried this with the various and numerous other Free / Unsecured APs yet. I have not tried this with other Email Service Providers ( Hotmail, Excite, Lycos etc.) either.

Update : I just got to the Internet with my Nokia770 / Nokia 6682 Phone combo and fetched the latest Gmail Email. ;)

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I usually use gmail, but I've tried the internal email client just to see if it would work nicely with the company server (secure all the way: ssl on smtp and imails). It works fine, no problems. Not used it much. I have my automatic wi-fi connection configured "off".