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Re: Modest fixes

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Originally Posted by The Sand (Post 770736)

After further thought I realize what I call a "feature" you call a "bug."

"Leave on server" means just that when there are no other options, no matter how much you like the option you can't have the phone deleting peoples email with out them knowing about it, therefore it's a bug.

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Originally Posted by The Sand (Post 770736)

So "Leave on the server" means the mail will ALWAYS remain on the server whether you delete it from the N900 or not.

That is what "Leave on server" means, so no confusion there then. It doesn't mean delete from server.

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Originally Posted by The Sand (Post 770736)

I wanted it to be left on the server when pulled onto the N900 - but then I want it deleted from the server when I delete from the N900.

Options required.

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Originally Posted by The Sand (Post 770736)

Really, most 3rd party email clients have the ability to delete from server - Outlook, Windows Mail, the Blackberry... it's usually in settings. I have attached a printscreen of Outlook settings.

I liked that feature - it would be nice if their was a further option to enable it...

But it's not in the N900's options, so it still shouldn't do it, sorry.

This bug was disgust here.
Here is the bug report that I started about the problem.
If you read comment #2 you will see probably the best solution for most peoples requirments.

Nokia don't seem to be interested in following on with what seemed to be standard practice in most of there other emailing phones in giving you a choice of how to delete your mail.

Re: Modest fixes

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Originally Posted by JonWW (Post 770780)

But it's not in the N900's options, so it still shouldn't do it, sorry.

I would never argue with that. I completely agree. I am arguing for the "options" to do it.

In the end... It's completely ridiculous to have a smartphone that can't delete from the server unless you access the account from the web. It's an embarrassment really...

There are so many bugs in the email client it's staggering. Maybe report this one. When deleting email from Gmail's inbox it goes to "All" mail - from there you have to select "move" to get it to the trash - Once in trash you can finally delete it. In other words, "delete" in Gmail doesn't work. I won't go on that Bug website, I hate that place - if you are a member maybe you can report that bug.

Sorry for the misunderstanding... hoping in the future, with the right options, that bug turns into a usable feature!

Sandy

Re: Modest fixes

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Originally Posted by The Sand (Post 767279)

you will see the directory go to user/home

It's /home/user... Not user/home... ;)

On Linux (and other "UNIX" variants) /home contains all non-root user's home directories by default (root's homedir is normally /root).

On Maemo the "normal" (unprivileged) user is called user so therefore the home directory for this user is placed in /home/user... ;)

Re: Modest fixes

Those directions were copied and pasted from ceroberts 75 off the Nokia Forum. Here is the link:

http://discussions.nokiausa.com/t5/M.../731938#M15913

Without him I could not have done this fix... so if he is wrong in any way - you need to post it on the above link...

I did get it done though... and was very grateful.

Thanks for clarifying what is correct - it's always nice to learn something ;)

Sandy

Re: Modest fixes

As long as You understood it he did a good job... That's what counts in the end... ;)

He DID state it correct later on though:

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sudo gainroot
cd /
tar xzf /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/modest-3.4.2-baxyp-1.tar.gz

The above is just another variant of what I mentioned earlier (and he uses the "Documents" (.documents)* folder instead of MyDocs in his example)... ;)

* When You use the built-in File Manager it shows the folder as Documents but it's actual name (as show in Xterm or when mouting via Windows) is .documents ... :) Pretty confusing. Don't know why they did it that way. The same goes for Images (.images), Sounds (.sounds) and Videos (.videos)... ;)

Re: Modest fixes

Once again, thanks for explaining. I was in over my head with this fix being a Windows user.

Most of the time you just live with bugs - but no POP3 incoming email rendered my phone just short of useless...

I am very grateful for the fix - to anybody and everybody that contributed in any way!

Thanks,
Sandy

Re: Modest fixes

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Originally Posted by The Sand (Post 767279)

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My “wish” for mail in the future – when my other smartphones pull mail from Yahoo they don’t make Yahoo’s server “unavailable” for about 4 minutes. The N900 does. Hopefully that will be fixed in the future…

This is probably caused by the fact that modest stays connected to the mail server after send/receive (until server times out and disconnects it).

Re: Modest fixes

It appears to be only POP3. I doesn't happen with Gmail... you can be in Gmail on the N900 actively using it, and at the same time, access Gmail via the web.

For POP3 the server "unavailable" is proving a trial if you are pulling that POP3 account onto other smartphones or Outlook... if you hit send/receive during the "black out" Outlook will give you an error message when it's being nice - and crash when it's not.

So I hope somebody looks into it...

Sandy

Re: Modest fixes

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Originally Posted by baxyp (Post 722013)

i did put together a custom version of modest, to fix some bugs that pr1.2 introduced: Send/receive and email notifications not working with pop3 accounts and messages deleted from server regardless of "leave messages on server" setting.
Latter was fixed in git already, for former i had to come up with some patches. I did make some performance improvements too, to reduce the time it takes to check for messages: Original version checked 3 times in a row when send/receive button was pressed in headers window :) now it does it only once.

The patched version, which is in attachment, is based on http://gitorious.org/modest/modest modest-3.4 branch. To install, copy this file to n900, become root and unpack it:

Code:

tar xzf modest-3.4.2-baxyp-1.tar.gz -c /

this will overwrite /usr/bin/modest.launch and /usr/lib/camel-lite-1.2/camel-providers/libcamelpop3.so. Reboot your phone.

To uninstall, just reinstall modest and libcamelpop3 from pr1.2:

Code:

apt-get --reinstall install libtinymail-camel-1.0-0 modest

i have tested it with my pop3 and gmail accounts and it seems to be working fine, but i cannot give any guarantees, use at your own risk.

i beg you sir please please fix the gpu drivers to enable vsync!!!!!

Re: Modest fixes

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Originally Posted by bayernhan (Post 771750)

i beg you sir please please fix the gpu drivers to enable vsync!!!!!

:) I would very much like to see these fixed, too, but unfortunately, GPU drivers are closed source. And besides, broken vsync is not the only problem, real buffer swaps are missing too (emulated with blits).