I have a number of problems with my N810. Any suggestions gratefully received!

The email program will show 'loading' but does not. It never appears. If I reboot (x-term>init 6) and run it, it appears. If I then close it, sometimes it will load, sometimes not. If it once does not load, it will not load subsequently until re-booted.

Once loaded, if it shows an unread email and I go to download it, it shows 'retrieving' and stays there. It does not succeed in retrieving it. It used to download mail automatically but mostly does not now, even though it tells me there is new mail.

Now, when attempting to sync to my Google calendar using Erminig, it tells me it is downloading Google events, then gets 20% of the way across the progress bar on 'Processing Google events' and stays there.

Both programs respond to input, they just don't function.

My wifi is working well, all connection parameters are good, as are passwords and logins. The web browser continues to work as normal.
Any ideas, anyone, please?

I experiene the same email problems. No autoupdating and so on...

I also had problems with Erminig, the solution that I came up with was to delete the calendar and then resync to google. This worked.

There is a problem with erminig that repeated events with one or more events missing cause it to hang. I had to recreate my calendar to do it. Check manually that all your events on gpe are on google. Export the google calendar as an ical. Delete both the google calendar (or change name and sync to an other one to be safe) and the gpe one. Then I imported the google ical file into an empty gpe-calendar and then synced. Also you must delete all the ermining config files also.

Concerning the Erminig bugs: yes, recurring events with events missing can cause it to hang. I'm working on a fix for this problem, which looks promising...

General comments regarding email problems:

Starting
/usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/modest.launch showui
may provide some output about the Email application itself (e.g. when it crashes).

If starting the Email application works and you "just" want to debug the connection to the mail server:

Start an X Terminal window and enter
export "CAMEL_DEBUG"="all"
to enable the debug mode of the mail library, and after that
/usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/modest.launch showui > log 2>&1

to start the email application. Then try to connect to the mailserver. This will create a logfile named "log".

Please also make sure to run the latest version (4.2008.36-5). There have been a lot of Email related fixes since the release of 4.2008.23-14.

Thanks for that gentlemen - much appreciated.

How do you delete the Erminig config files?

There is only one config file for erminig. To delete it:

- open an X Terminal
- type: rm .erminig.cfg
- press Enter

Erminig config file will then be deleted.

hope this helps.

You seem to have some secret insight into modest which I cannot find on the internet. Can I use modest to open .eml files from the file manager?
A description of the command line would also be useful.