Re: Modest fixes
 

duh....that did it.


i had to cd MyDocs

lmao

Re: Modest fixes
 

OMG THX YOU SO MUCH!
this is a MAJOR improvement for the email client on n900 :D :eek:
now my client is REALLY FAST! :D

Re: Modest fixes
 

Wow, I just installed this, and the performance/speed gain is really noticeable!

Thanks so much for putting this together!

Re: Modest fixes
 

i might be asking too much but I really would like a proper Hildon or Qt base email client (modest is fine) that deals with Gmail IMAP peculiarities in 'deleting' emails.

Now I'm spending soo much time actually deleting emails twice, once on my N900 and once on my laptop. i'll happy pay a beer (and a lot more) to someone who can deliver a modest version that moves a to-be-deleted email to the gmal/trash folder instead of sending a simple standard imap delete command and the mail just ending in the 'all mails' folder..
I don't care if it's open to everyone, I know lots of other people also would love this.
Of course it needs to be build on top of the latest community modest version (with offline support etc)

PM me if you can do it. Honestly, I'm so fed up with this non-specific IMAP behaviour and the inability of the Maemo community to create a custom modest version that deals properly with the strange gmail IMAP behaviour.

I hope someone feels brave enough to do it. Let me know. I'm willing to sponsor, within reason of course :)

Re: Modest fixes
 

It is already in the works.
http://trojita.flaska.net/
It is in extras and it does work.
Now if he would just add notifications to it then I could use it and dump modest forever.
But as it stands it downloads the emails but unless you are constantly looking at the device and checking you won't know if you have mail.

Re: Modest fixes
 

If you cannot install any packages after you update modest:


create /etc/apt/preferences and edit like this:

package: libtinymail-camel
pin release: a=unstable
pin-priority: 1000

package: hildon-desktop
pin release: a=unstable
pin-priority: 1001

save the file, reboot if you are unsure (last pin is for http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=60599 )

Something about apt-pinning http://www.howtoforge.com/a-short-in...to-apt-pinning

VI commands http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/vimcheat.html

I don't guarantee that trick works! Remove the preferences file you want to get rid of hacks. Then do apt-get get upgrade or apt-get --fix-broken install or something like and you should get the old ones back and able to install new apps :cool:

Re: Modest fixes
 

Great fix so thanks a lot. My email client is very fast the difference is very noticeable.

Re: Modest fixes
 

tried this, unzipping the tarball gave no errors but didnt seem to update. when i check the version it says '3.2.13-3+0m5'. any thoughts? i made sure i was root and was in the proper MyDocs folter when i unzipped the tarball

Re: Modest fixes
 

Just another satisfied customer checking in.

Here's hoping that these improvements make it into any future update packs.

Re: Modest fixes
 

better would be if a email client would see if it is gmail
and then add Archive and Delete commands to the popup list (or have buttons somewhere)
and then Archive sends a imap delete and the Delete moved it to trash. Then we have the same behavior as through the browser.

Re: Modest fixes
 

i had problem installing this package. I use xarchive and it show not using right comment so i use that info from x archive.
tar -xzvf /home/user/MyDocs/modest-3.4.2-baxyp-1.tar.gz C /
and its starting seem like extract . Am i i use right command.
It just show.
./
./usr/bin/
./usr/bind/modest.launch
./usr.lib/
./usr/lib/camel - lite-1.2/
./usr/lib/camel - lite-1.2/camel -providers/libcamelpop3.so
/home/user #

like that its true i have installed it.t

Re: Modest fixes
 

That's not the command listed in earlier posts... :)

It's -C / (which means = change to directory / before extracting)...

See my post here.

Re: Modest fixes
 

Hi,

First of all, thank you for your work.
I didn't have the time to read 10 pages, so if my question has been already posted, forgive me ;)

I have 2 requests regarding Modest :
-The ability to choose the directories where sent mails, and deleted mails are stored. In the best case, the possibility to store them on the mail server (that's why imap is so great)
-The ability to choose the directories I subscribe. I tried to edit the .subscription file on my mail server, to get only the directories I want, but It seems not to work, and it's a dirty solution (i never had to do this with my old n95)

If you could satisfy those 2 requests, it should be very great ;)

Re: Modest fixes
 

Those are both two very good suggestions, both already reported as "bugs" in bugs.maemo.org (please vote for https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2557 and https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5553). Unfortunately I doubt they will get fixed. Even though Modest is open-source, it would take quite a bit of programming by a community member to implement those changes.

Re: Modest fixes
 

@doctor madness
if you happen to use gmail you can try "plugin" from gmail labs that gives you ability to hide folders from imap connection.

Re: Modest fixes
 

pelago : thank you for your information, I vote for the bug resolution !

slender : thank you for your suggestion, but as I am concerned by my privacy, I don't use gmail :p

Re: Modest fixes
 

@baxyp, if its not too much to ask could you please supply a patched version that covers the fix for attachments not showing: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10206 (modest 3.4.7+0m5) ; cant get work e-mails because of this..

Re: Modest fixes
 

Hmm. Have you checked this:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ghlight=modest

Re: Modest fixes
 

@slender: I had a look, but its an older version of modest thats referred to in that thread. (modest_3.2.13).

Re: Modest fixes
 

If you check later in the thread it mentions the code comes from the 3-4 branch.
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...4&postcount=20

Re: Modest fixes
 

I tried, but its still the same; maybe that bugfix has been included (yet?). I did get portrait mode through, so thats nice..

Re: Modest fixes
 

Hmm
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10206#c14

Re: Modest fixes
 

solved, it was an issue with my work e-mail server, this bugfix wasnt required, thanks for trying to help though.

Re: Modest fixes
 

Jerryfreak,
Have you resolved this problem? I think I have encountered the same thing - no error message at install, but version still stays at 3.2.13. Also, I don't see the drastic performance improvement as others have said....

Re: Modest fixes
 

same problem here. ran the command and did not get any error message. Reboot phone then run dpkg -i|grep modest still said '3.2.13-3+0m5'. Any idea?

Re: Modest fixes
 

The tar.gz is just an archive, like .zip file. When you unpack it to root directory, you are in fact just overwriting some modest related system files. It has no effect on package database, so dpkg will not know anything about new files. It was intentional, because modest is part of pr 1.2, updating it with normal methods will cause problems installing other packages later.

Re: Modest fixes
 

kool. thanks for clarification

Re: Modest fixes
 

has anyone used the baxyp modest fix since the pr1.3 update?


seems the new modest updates have made a really nice change, but not sure if it is needed to do the modest fix that was made here.

please advise if you know what the differences between the two are now and if they have just implemented baxyp's fix into the firmware.

thanks.

Re: Modest fixes
 

Seems that modest from PR1.3 finally addresses all the issues I had a fix for, so there is no need to install my package anymore. Even the problem, where mail was redundantly checked for more than once, has been eliminated (or at least improved to the point of not being a real issue, there is still some unnecessary login/logout taking place).

Re: Modest fixes
 

Hi,
could edit your first post and add this info for everyone to notice straight away that it is not useful anymore with PR 1.3.
Thank you for your efforts with modest.

Re: Modest fixes
 

Done. I changed the title and added a short message.

Re: Modest fixes for PR1.2
 

it should be usefull in PR1.3 because the problems just continue after installing PR1.3

My email client crashes allot! most of the time when i get a notification of my email and i click it, email wont start and crashes back to desktop. After that im unable to open email client... when i open email client it shows my 3 accounts, and after approx 10 seconds it crashes back to desktop again.

When this happens i need to approx wait 10 minutes. after that time of doing nothing on the phone for some misterious reason it all of a sudden starts up on its own and i can use the email again normaly.

Besides this i have a bug that for some reason 80% of the times i open my email account the inbox button is not shown and a loading icon is shown in the top bar for about 30 to 60 seconds. after that time the inbox all of a sudden shows up. i removed all email from the inbox and still with an emty inbox it sometimes loads a minute. When this bug happens quiting email and open again does not help. i need to let it load until inbox is shown or else the cycle starts over.

Can someone PLEASE tell me whats causing this extremely annoying delays?

Re: Modest fixes for PR1.2
 

I have exactly the same problem with the PR1.3 and overclock!
I really would like a solution.
Should I try this fix or it is useless ?
thanks you