Help -- I just set up my Yahoo mail account and before I knew it the N800 had download all 4,000 of my email messages from Yahoo. Now the whole application is incredibly sluggish and basically unusable and I can't even make it work well enough to delete all the messages.

I have to upgrade to the latest OS anyway - should I just backup everything except the email messages and then update the OS? I think that will wipe out all the email. Is there an easier way?

After I fix this, is there a way to prevent this from happening again - I didn't see a setting for how much old email to download when I set up the account.

Thanks!

Ken

IMAP services do that. ;-)

I'm having the same problem but with Google mail. Oh my gods, huge mistake sending it to the email app.

What's the path to the mail folder? Can I delete mail from the terminal?

(It says it's linux and that's good, but none of the files are where I expect them to be.)

I ended up backing up everything but email and then reinstall

Sorry about that fragment. I ended up backing up everything except email, reinstalling the OS and then setting up email again. (But you will lose any applications you installed on the N800.) But before I did that I went into Yahoo mail and moved all but my recent email into an "old" folder. Then I downloaded email again into the N800.

This is obviously a workaround, but I could not find a way in either the Nokia email client or the Claws Mail program to tell it to ignore old email on the server.

Ken

I had this problem also. I located the mails in ~/apps/email/Mail/Inbox

OK, I guess this is a silly question... and I don't yet have an N800... but why download the email at all? I was assuming that I'd use wifi to access my Yahoo email account(s) as I do now from PC and laptop, read, respond, delete, file and so forth...

Just how easy will it be for me to do that without actually downloading the email to the N800?

Because on the N800, GMail and Yahoo! Mail are often slow and sometimes have formatting issues. Some of that is due to Opera and might be fixed by a Mozilla-based browser.easy will it be for me to do that without actually downloading the email to the N800?[/QUOTE]