[maemo-developers] Modest/TinyMail problems (continue from the blog comments)

[From: Sergio Villar Senin]

Aniello Del Sorbo escribiu:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 05:23:29PM +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote:
>>> En/na Philip Van Hoof ha escrit:
>>>
>>>> So I can only recommend checking out the code and trying to implement
>>>> them.
>>> No, I won't, for 2 simple reasons: 1) I'm not a C/C++ coder (I can make
>>> the occasional patch if there's no other way, but I really hate those
>>> languages) and 2) I already can use a program that already does what I want.
>> Out of curiosity, what is the program that can deal with 26,000-message
>> folders and runs on the Internet Tablets?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marius Gedminas
>>
> 
> Probably he's talking about Claws mail, but I am not sure about this.
> 
> What I wanted to say is that I find useless, for Modest, to deal with
> such large databases
> of e-mail.
> The Tablet is not a substitute for your desktop.

That's an interesting point Aniello and I mostly agree with you. Thing
is, we're still improving Modest, and we'd like it to deal gracefully
large email folders, but there are several UI requirements here and
there that makes it difficult.

My opinion is that managing such large email folders is not a target for
any mobile device, at least for the short term, because they're not
prepared for that and secondly because they're not designed for that.
Your primary email device should be still your desktop PC/laptop.

Br