[maemo-users] Send-Only Accounts in Modest

[From: inode0]

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Tony Green <tony at beermad.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 Jul 2008, maemo-users-request at maemo.org wrote:
>
>> Back on topic, am I really the only one with a mail setup like this?  I
>> thought it was a moderately common arrangement.  Or do other folks have
>> the same issue and are just being quiet because they don't have a solution?
>>
> Keeping quiet because I don't have a solution, but watching in case someone
> has one :-)
>
> For me, the ideal is to have a send-only account on the N800 so I can generate
> messages when I'm out and about that will be sent when I connect to a
> network. But I don't normally want to collect incoming messages as I prefer
> to leave that to my desktop machine. Though it would be useful to be able to
> enable/disable receiving so that when I'm on holiday I can pick messages up
> when I find a network I can use.

For just a send-only account setting the incoming server to 127.0.0.1
seems to work fine for me. If you open up the main application you get
the annoying popups but there isn't much need to do that. If you just
compose and send email it stays quiet about it.

John