Modest is slow, can I make it faster
 

Modest is very slow. Opening the list of received files takes almost half a minut, opening a message even longer (over one minute). Does anyone experience this as well?

I am using modest with Gmail that has over 8GB worth of e-mail. I am not sure if that matters, is there a way to tell modest to track only the last 1000 messages or something?

I am using sync with Google calendar ( http://wiki.maemo.org/Sync#Synchronising_with_Google ) - could this be a problem? AFAIK these are separate programs.

Any other ideas? Can I wipe all mail on N900 and start over? I hope this does not wipe e-mail on Gmail server either?

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8 Gigs of emails? Dear Lord. :)

Maybe you could create another email account and have your current email forward any new messages to the new one.

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Well, I am a happy Gmail user since 2006 or so. Hm, that would work but I do want to send my mayl as from my normal gmail account.
What puzzles me though that I remember that the mail used to be faster (never fast, but not painfully slow).

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I once had 8,000 emails and decided to delete them all.

It took Modest a few hours to do this, but afterwards, it was quite liberating. :)

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Have you tried changing the message size limit?

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Ok, just checked, I use 1.5GB only, but still in modest you're getting only latest 250 messages, so 8GB is not the issue here (check the menu once you click Inbox at the top: Show more (250/xxx) is an option, so you could have 8TB, unless attachments are all loaded). Try with different account? If issue persists something you installed is at fault, if other email works fine make a local copy of the attachment ones and remove them from serv.

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I was using this: http://mat.exon.name/modest/ (offline support) - but deleting my account and enabling it again without this option does not seem to speed things up:-/.

BTW: I am using modest from the CSSU Stable, but I guess I am no alone.

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You should be able to delete the respective directory within ~/.modest/cache/mail/imap/ and restart modest to clear the cache. I'm pretty sure the offline IMAP patches are in CSSU, so I wouldn't install the packages from mat.exon.name

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ACK!!! Be very careful -- that "offline support" feature has no mechanism to deal with large volumes of e-mail; it will happily download every message you've got until it's filled up all the space in your N900 (I forget which partition it is using, but it's bad news regardless).

There's more info about this in the offline IMAP thread:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=55771

I personally think this patch needed a lot more work done on it before being included into the CSSU...

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Copernicus: hm, that is worrying but it still does not explain why it is so slow.

Anyway, I treid forwarding my mail to a new address and modest is reasonaly fast with a account with 40 mails or so. It has the disadvantage that all mails are unread - even those I read on my computer, which is almost all of them.

I am using the online interface of gmail, opera handles it just fine (and it is much faster), but it would still be nice to have offilne messages and working fat client on N900. Anyway, I do not suppose anyone is working on this so I will stick with the web interface for the time being.

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Have you tried installing claws-mail instead?

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No, I heard its interface is not at all touch&small screen friendly? Or is it not?

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I have yet to try it but I've heard good things and have been meaning to give it a chance.

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Although I'm not using CSSU I am using CSSU's modest. If I am not connected then it takes a while until the list of e-mails is shown (10 seconds or so). I can then quickly read already-downloaded messages.

Note that I'm not using the "offline IMAP" option. Modest already downloads e-mails in its default configuration.

If I'm on-line, then the list of e-mails opens quickly.

I guess modest tries to connect whenever you open the e-mail list, and only shows them after some time-out...

Add.: For gmail I use standard IMAP. For my other accounts I use Nokia Messaging, and there the list of e-mails opens instantly, even when disconnected. Opening individual e-mails is also slightly faster than with standard IMAP accounts.

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Turns out the only thing needed was to use Nokia Messaging. Now it works like a charm, IMAP-style.

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I don't want to open new thred for one simple question regarding Modest, is there any way to change e-mail size limit in .conf file like it is in MeeGo? Other day I was trying to send 19 Mb message and it was "too big to send".

Thanks for help in advance.

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I do not think so. You can install gconf-editor and see the keys there, I think you cna limit the size of incoming messages, not outgoing.

Anyway, your problem was probably with your smtp server - e-mail usually are not allowed to be this big, I think anything bigger than 8MB might be rejected by your server, but it of course depends on the server's configuration.

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Server will eat as much as 20Mb thats the limit (tested, for sure). Bad news in that case. I thought I just can't find ".conf" file. That is quite important to me, well it was.

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Hm, who knows what went wrong. smtp protocol however somehow makes files larger than they are when sending them (i.e. 12MB file will take up say 18MB when send through mail, the encoding is somehow inefficient), so maybe that is the problem. If I were you, I would maybe try to send several files of varying lenght and see if none of them gets trough or if some do and whether is is predictable (that i.e. anything over 16,5 MB will not be sent).

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Thx, I'll play with it later on. But I honestly doubt it that sending 18Mb worth of stuff can cause reject it due to "encoding".

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_a...nt#Size_limits - it is actually 25% overhead.