As my main client anywhere I use alpine it works great. The only reason I'm not using it on the N900 is that there is no way to specify it what should be the default handler for mailto: and other links that one might want to use. Can anyone write up a tool to do so?

Now my problems with modest from what I've observed:

painfully slow no matter what connection
again no sent etc... server side
I have also observed it does not mark messages on the server read etc...
no way to tell it only check the following folders
MISSING FOLDERS!!!! I have an alpine alpine.bugs alpine.devel alpine.info folders and they aren't shown in modest.
Folder view... Very very bad way to view folders and subfolders...
i.e.
sourcemage
.bugs
.discuss

How am I supposed to know where something fits in... Especially with some of the larger subtrees.


As for my backend:
a fully IMAP compliant dovecot 1.2.8 server using Maildir storage. Using alpine there is no problem, using webmail(hastymail) there is no problem. Using modest... constant problems.

I have deinstalled MfE and Nokia Messaging from the system completly as I have no need for them. Also removed any activesync/camel stuff I was able to remove without fuss.