Reply
Thread Tools
XL1200c's Avatar
Posts: 56 | Thanked: 5 times | Joined on Oct 2007
#131
I do not like Modest using my removable memory card. Is there a way to change it so it uses my internal memory card?
 
Posts: 54 | Thanked: 11 times | Joined on Feb 2008
#132
@XL1200c :
I feel the same, but my solution is a rather ugly hack. I turned off the option to store mail in the external card and then sym-linked the internal /home/user/.modest folder to /media/mmc2/Modest. Doing this sort of thing takes away your rights to complain about bugs.

- Jim
 
Posts: 149 | Thanked: 21 times | Joined on Jun 2007 @ Germany
#133
Just browsed a bit with gconf-editor and what do I see...

Modest saves cleartext password in his config!

Come on, it's not nice to not have a usable PIM (can't send email with GPE addressbook, other PIMs lacks in other points, and so on...) with Nxxx tablet, but storing cleartext passwords on a mobile device isn't acceptable!

Greets

PS:
What's also not nice in Modest: at fullscreen, there is no close button in mail view to go back to the listing view.
 
brontide's Avatar
Posts: 868 | Thanked: 474 times | Joined on Oct 2007 @ Capital District, NY, USA
#134
Originally Posted by slha89 View Post
Just browsed a bit with gconf-editor and what do I see...

Modest saves cleartext password in his config!

Come on, it's not nice to not have a usable PIM (can't send email with GPE addressbook, other PIMs lacks in other points, and so on...) with Nxxx tablet, but storing cleartext passwords on a mobile device isn't acceptable!

Greets

PS:
What's also not nice in Modest: at fullscreen, there is no close button in mail view to go back to the listing view.
The nokias store plaintext passwords for ALL the IM accounts, network logins ( including WPA-Enterprise ), and more. So the fact that modest does it as well is not a real surprise.

It bugs me as well. I man how hard is it to use the mac address as a symmetric cypher?
 
Posts: 32 | Thanked: 0 times | Joined on Mar 2006
#135
I've got my Googlemail account linking with Modest but is it possible to access Hotmail?
 
Posts: 10 | Thanked: 1 time | Joined on Jan 2008 @ Treviso, Italia
#136
Originally Posted by brontide View Post
It bugs me as well. I man how hard is it to use the mac address as a symmetric cypher?
What kind of security would this give to you? If somebody can read your encrypted password, he can access your mac address too.
 
Jaffa's Avatar
Posts: 2,535 | Thanked: 6,681 times | Joined on Mar 2008 @ UK
#137
The device needs to know the password so short of asking the user for a keychain-like password which is used to derive the decryption key, it's not going to be possible to store the password for a remote service (which it needs) on the device in a secure manner.

Having said that, there are a couple of simple things applications should consider doing when storing the passwords, and xoring the text with the MAC address + some application-specific number is simple enough to stop casual sniffing; even if it's not any more secure in any real way.

Cheers,

Andrew
__________________
Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org
 
GeneralAntilles's Avatar
Posts: 5,478 | Thanked: 5,222 times | Joined on Jan 2006 @ St. Petersburg, FL
#138
Originally Posted by slha89 View Post
What's also not nice in Modest: at fullscreen, there is no close button in mail view to go back to the listing view.
Hold down the back key.

Press the back key.

Last edited by GeneralAntilles; 2008-03-17 at 03:09.
 
Jaffa's Avatar
Posts: 2,535 | Thanked: 6,681 times | Joined on Mar 2008 @ UK
#139
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Hold down the back key.
A single press did it last time I used Modest.
__________________
Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org
 
Posts: 56 | Thanked: 3 times | Joined on Jan 2008 @ San Jose, CA
#140
I may be missing something obvious but is there a way to email a group of contacts all at once instead of checkboxing each contact one by one?
 
Reply

Tags
mail modest

Thread Tools

 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 17:57.