What's generic-pr? I certainly didn't look for any dependency problems, it's a "works for me" thing.

I don't want to start a fork of Modest or Tinymail or anything, I just had an itch that needed scratching. Email clients are especially vulnerable to feature creep, and open source makes it worse. Keeping Modest usable means turning to people and saying "That essential feature which is a no-brainer to include? We're not including it, go buy a Blackberry". If "modest-community" ever happened, I for one probably wouldn't use it!

The bug in Tinymail is different though. Fixing it doesn't add bloat, on the contrary it exercises unused code and keeps bitrot at bay. So that's the bit I think is worth pushing.