Hi Chris, We all have a lot of problems with the email client (although not all of us have such a serious problem as you). I suggest to create a post about it (or search if anyone found a solution yet) on together.jolla.com
Cheers, Timur Timur On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Chris Walker < cdw_noki...@the-walker-household.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 11:18:45 +0000 > Chris Walker <cdw_noki...@the-walker-household.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:50:08 +0200 > > Jonni Nakari <jo...@egarden.fi> wrote: > > > > > On 02.01.2014 12:23, Chris Walker wrote: > > > > As I appear to be the only one with this problem, it's plainly not > > > > something that should trouble the development team. > > > I had a similar problem when I tried adding my free Gmail account > > > using Microsoft Exchange account type. No errors were displayed when > > > creating the account or checking mail. > > > > > > I might have also seen this problem when I mistyped some settings on > > > a imap type account, but not sure about that. > > > > > > I suggest that you re-create and double check all you account's > > > settings. You might get some additional debug information by > > > enabling the developer mode and running "journalctl -f -a" as root > > > when first saving the account and when checking for new mail. > > > > This is an IMAP account. > > > > It is now declaring 'Problem with sync' so that does suggest a typo > > somewhere but I have checked and rechecked all the account > > information. I'm tempted to take a look at the accounts.db file to > > see what that holds. > > I'm almost at the stage of throwing this thing away! It is *so* > frustrating to use that it beggars belief at times. > > If I'm in the middle of setting up an email account and the screen > blanks (after 5 seconds and not the 30 seconds it's set to!), why when I > double tap to get back, does it revert to the home screen? I expect it > to be like most other equipment I've used, phones included and to go > back to where I left it. > > But the real frustration is the email setting stuff. I *still* haven't > managed to get the thing to log into my IMAP account despite the fact > that I can do it on a Windows 7 machine, the linux machine, a > Blackberry Playbook and my N900 phone. They *all* show all the folders > on the IMAP account and yet the Jolla won't. I've created the account > countless times, both by ssh'ing in and doing it by the command line and > also by using the GUI. It always displays 'Problem with Sync'. So as I > also have an email account on the Playbook I used those settings and I > can see all the folders that are present on that account (also IMAP). > But having received an email into it, when I replied it wouldn't send. I > *think* that initially was a problem with my router for some reason so > having toggled the power to that I tried again. The message in the > outbox would not send despite using the same settings as the PB. So I > switched the settings on the Jolla to use the smtp server specified for > my landline (the same that the linux and Windows machine use) but it > still wouldn't send. I deleted the reply and recreated it and this time > it did go. To me, that implies that the message holds details of the > outgoing server and whatever I did, is never likely to make it send. > > So some questions. > > How can I reduce the number of accounts held in the sqlite database as > the number is already up to 7 and I only have 2 email accounts, one of > which doesn't work and the other one will be deleted? > > Second question. Does the email hold details of the outgoing server > until it's sent? > [I do see messages in the terminal 'OfonoNetworkRegistration' there > was more to that but it's scrolled off screen too far to recall]. > > Third question and one that's been posed here before and that is, how > do I set the password for IMAP from the command line without using > push2mail and also, I would also like to be able to check the password. > Is there any way? > > CDW > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >
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