N800 Mail Question
I don't use Claws. I use the mail program that came with the N800. Prior to the release I installed in August (not the recent patch release) I could tell the mail program not to automatically poll for mail. Under 'tools', 'settings' there is a checkbox to 'update automatically.' It is unchecked; however, mail still polls as long as a network connection exists. This is very frustrating. Is anyone else having this problem? Even if I were to upgrade to Claws, that wouldn't stop this mail package from polling... Thanks, Nick. ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N800 Mail Question
Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: I don't use Claws. I use the mail program that came with the N800. Prior to the release I installed in August (not the recent patch release) I could tell the mail program not to automatically poll for mail. Under 'tools', 'settings' there is a checkbox to 'update automatically.' It is unchecked; however, mail still polls as long as a network connection exists. This is very frustrating. Is anyone else having this problem? Even if I were to upgrade to Claws, that wouldn't stop this mail package from polling... I see the email polling as more of a feature than a problem. My SOP is to just ignore the built in email program as much as possible. The polling is a very minor side show in most respects. As part of ignoring it, I set it so it deletes mails older than a couple days old... or something like that. It would be nice to be able to configure Claws (or whatever email program one uses) as the default email program. I suppose that will happen at some point as development moves forward. For all I know, it's possible now, if one knows how to poke the right buttons. IMHO, there's other things that ought to take a higher priority, like seemless OS upgrades. Always, Fred ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
RE: N800 Mail Question
Thanks, Fred. That is what I do also; however, I also travel a lot and whenever the mail package polls it lights up the screen (even when locked). I use my N800 as my alarm clock and having the screen 'awake' when it polls (actually when it finds an e-mail to download) is very irritating as I shutdown my e-mail package @ home when I'm on the road. I do agree about setting a default mail program - that would be a great feature! Nokia.. :-) And there's no question about the seamless upgrades - totally agree. Nick. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 5:08 PM To: Dr. Nicholas Shaw Cc: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: N800 Mail Question Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: I don't use Claws. I use the mail program that came with the N800. Prior to the release I installed in August (not the recent patch release) I could tell the mail program not to automatically poll for mail. Under 'tools', 'settings' there is a checkbox to 'update automatically.' It is unchecked; however, mail still polls as long as a network connection exists. This is very frustrating. Is anyone else having this problem? Even if I were to upgrade to Claws, that wouldn't stop this mail package from polling... I see the email polling as more of a feature than a problem. My SOP is to just ignore the built in email program as much as possible. The polling is a very minor side show in most respects. As part of ignoring it, I set it so it deletes mails older than a couple days old... or something like that. It would be nice to be able to configure Claws (or whatever email program one uses) as the default email program. I suppose that will happen at some point as development moves forward. For all I know, it's possible now, if one knows how to poke the right buttons. IMHO, there's other things that ought to take a higher priority, like seemless OS upgrades. Always, Fred ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: N800 Mail Question
If you're passionate about this email problem/feature, another option might be to create an unused email account that you can use as your default email account. While it would get polled, there wouldn't be anything there. Then manually switch to your email account of choice to get you emails. For example,, get ourself a gmail address. You can then use this email to access google docs, which gives your n800 access to something like Open Office -- a free open source Office Suite of reasonable quality that can edit and look and save at MS Office docs online, plus convert, share and save them as pdf files. -- Always Fred Chittenden, DDS [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
