Was just wondering, the bug that causes the e-mail client to go nuts when trying to handle big inboxes, are we talking about only the inbox? Would moving all e-mails from the inbox and into another folder (made an Archive folder) remove said problem?

In other words, can you specify which folders the e-mail client is syncing with?

Using IMAP you can chooses what folders to subscribe to. You can not do so in modest but you can use another mail program such as Thunderbird or Outlook to subscribe to certain folders while ignoring others. Modest will only display the folders that are subscribed by the other clients.

I had problems with two mailboxes which each had around 7K of work messages from this year. I archived all but the last two messages to another folder that is not subscribed. Modest works better now but still does not work well.

Modest has been patched to only retrieve the most recent 250 messages unless you request more. I believe this will fix the problem. But the patched version will not be available to us until the next firmware release. I do not believe that unreleased firmwares are available to the public.

Thanks alot for the explanation! I reckon the problem is the same if you try getting exchange to work as well? And how about POP3 (which is what Thunderbird wanted to use)?

(I'm using gmail btw)

You can get around this issue completely without archiving/messing up your gmail inbox. Sign up for Nokia messenging. I thought it was a separate email account but its not - its a Nokia push service. Just sign up online, then go into the nokia email application in the N900 and type in your details. You can get it to download the last 3days or 30 days of emails - and lovely push gmail. Its made my N900 snappier on the whole. (I had been using IMAP gmail before with 13,000 emails, hence a slow email app!)

Sweet! Thanks! I just installed Thunderbird on my laptop, and was making both an imap and pop account to learn more about them :P

Your solution seems like the best choice

I used the nokia email service on my e61, when i tried to use it on my n900 it gave me the same problems as using my imap boxes directly, tried to download ALL of the messages before it crashed and reset its settings. I really wish they would release this update as currently i cannot use email on my n900.

The Symbian IMAP client on your E61 had a low limit to the number of messages it looked at when updating your mailbox. I believe the default is 30.

I know, if I understood the upcomming fix to the N900s email client correctly then it should also impose a similar limit.

Anyone have any updates on this? My gmail has like 13k worth of e-mails and so it's impossible to do anything with the client. Anyone know if the N900 can install something like thunderbird or is there any manual way to delete all the messages and only get the latest messages?

Thanks