Thread: [Maemo 5] [better] email client for N900?
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BatPenguin is offline BatPenguin
2009-12-02 , 19:33
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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
Over a thousand messages in your Inbox? Local or otherwise, the Inbox is a special folder and shouldn't be used as a dumping ground. I don't care how busy you are. Even though good clients and servers can handle this, I recommend an email reorg. If you don't, this might cause undue stress if you're maxing out your n900 with music, browsing and what not. You could still experience problems and frustration resulting from slowdown and/or scarce resources such as memory. Clean it up and be happier.

I'm sure that's good advice for the N900 now at least before the bug fix is released, but I don't think this should be necessary any more in general these days when we have good search tools and nearly infinite mailboxes. I consider the Inbox to be a special folder, too. It's the special folder that holds ALL my email . Well, except for a select few very,very special ones with account infos etc. whatevers, that I actually want to set aside into a special place. I have a dozen or so folders on my mail box, the inbox has about 6,000 messages, the rest of them combined maybe 30. I consider time spent on categorizing and organizing emails to be a waste - good search tools find the messages faster anyway.

On another note: why can't these bug fixes be pushed out? This seems silly that such a huge bug is causing misery to many users and Nokia is just sitting on the fix. I don't have the N900 but I feel the pain of people who do...my email would be completely unuseable (as it is on the N810). Saving all fixes to one big update seems odd, why not just release individual bug fixes to these sorts of applications. That's what every other Linux distribution would do.