Hi there!

After reinstalling and restoring from backup (which failed, I tried several times), I had my email crash with this message every 5 sec...
I could not open the email because it crashed just after having listed the email accounts. The email settings can only be changed from the email, naturally. Restoring the factory settings did not help..

I installed strace and did what they propose at
http://wiki.maemo.org/Bugs:Stock_ans...k_.28strace.29
and the problem turned out to be in reading from ~/.modest/local_folders which did not exist and could not be created with user privileges because it was owned by root..
I chowned ~/.modest to user:users, deleted the cache ~/modest/cache and you know what... It worked

Maybe I should file a bug on this.. But I don't know if the problem emerged in the creation of the backup or in the restore..