Hi guys,

I've been "playing" with different approaches in order to get a reliable email solution, as Modest client isn't that good...

Beside several GUI issues, main problem seems to be sync reliability (doesn't sync every time it's supposed to). I first gave a try with mutt, accessing a gmail account (more than 13000 emails). It's basically unusable, as it requires lots of network connections while browsing/reading emails. And if no network at all, account can't be reached, so you can't read emails when offline.

I then installed offlineimap, a nice, reliable and fast tool to synchronize imap accounts and maildirs. I created a task using Alarmed to activate this sync every 15 minutes. This works nice, I can read my emails with mutt. Though mutt is great, it's not integrated to N900 contacts for instance. And HTML emails are poorly handled. I wanted to use Modest to access maildir, but it just doesn't handle this mail box type, only pop and imap.

So I installed an IMAP server on N900, dovecot. The idea is to use Modest to access a local IMAP server (so hopefully no network problems, and fast). So far it works !

- offlineimap syncs between remote imap and local maildir
- alarmed launches offlineimap every 15min
- dovecot serves the maildir content
- Modest points to this dovecot local IMAP installation

This sounds complicated, and it may be, but it seems to me that it's getting more reliable. I need to test this for several days.

This has required lots of tinkering, this just doesn't work out of the box (read: lots of command line...), I can write a tutorial if interested

Cheers,
Seb