12.11.07
Modest Beta Arrives!
I’ve been using Modest for a few weeks now and it’s gotten progressively better and more stable with each incremental release. While it’s still in beta, anyone can give it a try now. The official site is live and I suggest you check it out if you’ve been seeking a more substantial email option on your OS2008 enabled tablet.
I’ve got my Gmail account setup with IMAP and my own personal identity rather than @gmail.com which works as you would expect any modern email client to work. The main issue which I believe will be resolved as it reaches release (non-beta) status is that Modest does not currently give you the option to replace the default email client for mail duty so unless it’s open when you click a mailto-link or choose to send via email, the other app will open. That said, I’ve had it working in the background on my N800 (and previously the N810 before I sent it back) with great success. Connections over Bluetooth DUN and wifi work quite well.
Some notes from the announcement on Maemo.org:
Some highlights:
- the basics: POP/IMAP/SMTP (normal/secure)
- MAP folders support, and IMAP-IDLE (“push-email”)
- easy setup of new accounts
- send and receive of rich text-emails
- managing mail with your fingers
- 100% open-source with a BSD-like license
Some important notes:
- modest will *not* replace the official e-mail program
- it does have the same name/icon in the menus, so don’t get confused!
- Modest uses English, regardless of your settings
- Modest works great with Gmail; don’t forget to use ‘user@gmail.com’ as your username, not just ‘user’.
Technorati Tags: modest, email, chinook, os2008, tinymail, maemo
Planet GNOME said,
December 17, 2007 at 8:00 am
Raimis100’s Weblog said,
May 19, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Modest Beta for OS2008 Now Out at Internet Tablet Talk said,
December 11, 2007 at 6:04 pm
[...] Jonathan Greene’s thoughts on Modest over at MaemoApps. Visit Modest’s official dev [...]
Mark Stephenson said,
December 12, 2007 at 10:24 am
Works fine for me with just my gmail user name no need for user@gmail.com
Only problem I have is inline images in html are not shown using gmail imap
Jonathan Greene said,
December 12, 2007 at 10:37 am
I use Gmail to aggregate my mail and don’t often send as @gmail.com…
I see they actually added an option now in account setup for both POP and IMAP Gmail access which is quite nice.
Hopefully inline images will be an option as we move closer to release, though I’ve become accustomed to not seeing them and appreciate the additional speed I get when connected over bluetooth dun.
Rob P said,
December 13, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Perhaps a silly question, but what does this offer over the stock email client? It looks very similar.
Jonathan Greene said,
December 13, 2007 at 3:08 pm
@Rob For starters it works. IMAP support is excellent and the app is far more responsive. It’s still a beta, but will be a way to replace the default app (not delete, but use instead) as I understand it.
Forum - Nokia Internet Tablets - N810 testing notes. - UMPCPortal.com said,
December 14, 2007 at 6:01 am
chuza! / Igalia traballa con Nokia desenvolvendo un cliente de email said,
December 16, 2007 at 6:31 am
José Dapena blog » Blog Archive » Modest! Time for feedback said,
December 17, 2007 at 4:25 am
Ben Foote said,
December 18, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Just curious, but why did you send your n810 back? I’m using os2008 on my n800, but I wouldn’t balk at getting an n810 if my n800 died.
Jonathan Greene said,
December 18, 2007 at 10:35 pm
I had to as it was a pre-release proto… The N810 is my preferred device and I am looking forward to getting one again soon.
Simon Pooley said,
December 19, 2007 at 11:11 am
Thanks for all the effort that has gone into Modest. It is a worthwhile improvement over the standard email client on the N810. I’m mostly using Modest to access my company Microsoft Exchange server (setup to use IMAP protocols) over a secure link, and Modest works very well, giving a good top-level view of all the IMAP folders exposed from Exchange.
I’m looking forward to a later version which can replace the current N810 email client.
Thanks again for all the effort, Simon.
Josh said,
December 22, 2007 at 11:42 pm
I have about 7000 emails in one of my labors and I’m wondering… is there anyway to have it not refresh the entire list? its kind of annoying to have to wait a few minutes before all your email shows up.. especially since its from the bottom up… i might be asking to much w/ that amount of mail though. Would pop make any difference or does it still have to load the headers into the program?
Jonathan Greene said,
December 23, 2007 at 7:23 am
absolutely … you can set the number of messages that download in your account settings.
Josh said,
December 23, 2007 at 3:26 pm
I tried that, but for some reason it doesnt stick with the subfolder(labels) for gmail. I’m using imap… any input anyone?
atlas95 said,
January 4, 2008 at 4:42 am
wonderfull app, but how to make it by default mail app please?
best regards
Jonathan Greene said,
January 4, 2008 at 7:49 am
Once it is out of beta, we should be able to replace the existing client with Modest
My N810 impressions thus far… - obstacles can kill said,
April 22, 2008 at 9:00 am
Featured Maemo Apps » Diablo is Hot! said,
June 25, 2008 at 9:17 pm
[...] email client has been updated quite substantially as well. While I’ve been using Modest since it was initially released, having it as the default system preference is great. IMAP performance is stellar on my gmail [...]
Planet Maemo said,
June 30, 2008 at 12:25 pm
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