bsterix | # 1 | 2006-11-21, 08:29 | Report

Hi,
i am looking for a better mailclient than the builtin.

I should be able to retrieve mails from a POP3-Server automatically every few minutes. (With Pine i wasn't able to configure this)

The displaying/deleting of mails should be fast. The N770-client is much to slow. (A Sylpheed pre-alpha version seemed to be quite fast, but the rest is unusable)

When i quit the client, the retrieving of mail should stop. (This wish sounds strange, but if i close the N770-Client it seems still to continue with retrieving mail every "x" minutes. Is there a possibility to completely stop the client?)

The fontsize in the list of mails should be selectable, so that i not only the half of the subjects.

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Thanks
bsterix

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Last edited by bsterix; 2006-11-21 at 08:33.

bsterix | # 2 | 2006-11-21, 12:22 | Report

Who voted:
bad, but i know better alternatives

How about posting the better alternative??

Thanks

aflegg | # 3 | 2006-11-21, 14:23 | Report

You've already mentioned it: Sylpheed.

Worked for me. Last weekend I managed to get it compiled in the Maemo 2.1 scratchbox, but it's still not fully integrated into the Hildon Application Framework.

Cheers,

Andrew

anidel | # 4 | 2006-11-21, 15:11 | Report

Actually another alternative is "pine".
It's a Terminal application, but has everything you need.

Here: http://david.woodhou.se/maemo-pine.html

and from Applications:

Repository: [WWW] http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/nokia770
Distribution: mistral
Component: user

(http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/nokia.../binary-armel/)

fpp | # 5 | 2006-11-21, 21:57 | Report

Why bother ? Gmail works just fine :-)

aflegg | # 6 | 2006-11-22, 09:16 | Report

fpp: less so if you've got only patchy GPRS coverage on your way to work.

bsterix | # 7 | 2006-11-22, 09:48 | Report

How can i configure N770-Pine to get mails from a POP3-Account every 5 minutes (or any other timeintervall)?

I have already tried pine, but couldnt find this feature for POP3-Accounts.

The rest of pine was quite OK.

Thanks
bsterix

bsterix | # 8 | 2006-11-22, 10:04 | Report

Are there binaries for OS-2006 available? Is development in progress?

anidel | # 9 | 2006-11-22, 11:39 | Report

I dunno yet
I am setting up everything now.. I've found several documents that explain how Pine can directly interface with IMAP, POP3, SMTP (with or without SSL)...
Some suggest to locally fetch emails and then use Pine (that's what is usually done on a regolar Unix machine). They suggest "fetchmail" that has to be recompiled on the Nokia (easy task, it's pure C).
I am looking at how to configure it. I will post back as soon as I have everything clear.

Pine is easy to use and powerful, but this comes at a price: configuration.

--
anidel

delaroca | # 10 | 2006-11-22, 22:48 | Report

With POP3 you can't have automatic notification of incoming email like with IMAP. See this FAQ,

http://www.cs.uu.nl/wais/html/na-dir...resources.html

You should be able to set up fetchmail to suck mail at regular intervals... then configure pine to check the incoming email folder and it will notify you of new email. Would be a lot cleaner if your ISP supported IMAP.

Pine is fast and clean... furthermore, as has been pointed out before, setting the option 'mouse-in-xterm' enables you control pine fully by simply tapping on the screen with the stylus... very nice!

One downside for me is that input to pine on the Nokia 770 turns out to be in UTF-8... you can set Pine to use this character-set, by default it tries to use ISO-8859-1, but then one does have problems receiving / sending emails with foreighn characters... if you only care about normal ASCII characters then everything works superb. I truly wish we had the capability to set the locale in xterm to ISO-8859-x, as needed (and then configure pine accordingly), but apparently maemo is missing those locale files.

-- Denis