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modest

Welcome

modest is a small e-mail program targetting hardware with modest resources. It's developed currently for Gnome/Moblin desktops and Nokia N900 mobile computers. Modest uses the tinymail e-mail framework.

Modest offers two user experiences:

Maemo5/Fremantle based one, targetted to Nokia N900 Gtk/Moblin based one, targetted for Gnome and Moblin desktops.

development

Show me the code

Now Modest git repository lives in Gitorious. The project is gitorious.org/modest.

For building in Maemo 5 platform

Make sure you have the Maemo 5 SDK installed, and activate it.

Make sure you install packages:
$ fakeroot apt-get install gnome-common gtk-doc-tools wpeditor-dev

Get the latest tinymail and modest code:

git clone git://gitorious.org/tinymail/tinymail.git git clone git://gitorious.org/modest/modest.git For building the current stable releases for N900, please use tinymail-1-2 branch in tinymail and modest-3-2 branch in modest.

Then compile and install tinymail and modest with:

export CFLAGS="-ggdb -O0 -DDBC -DDEBUG" (optional, for debugging) export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" ./autogen.sh --with-platform=maemo --with-toolkit=hildon2 && make && make install

Now, run modest (inside scratchbox) from the Extras menu, or with:

run-standalone.sh /usr/local/bin/modest -s

Gtk/Moblin port is experimental. Ask developers in #modest IRC channel in freenode for build instructions

documentation

documentation

There's quite a bit of developer documentation available: The modest garage project page; The Gitorious modest project A description of Modest implementation and architecture. The modest technical reference (in git); The Tinymail reference; The Camel Library docs

In addition, there's of course the documentation for GTK+/GLib and Maemo.

contact and mailing list

contribute and contact Modest team

You are of course very welcome to contribute to our efforts! Please take a look at the HACKING-file in the source distribution to see what conventions we are using.

Of course it's also good to discuss your plans/suggestions etc. on the modest mailing list; modest-devel is for development issues, while modest-users is for end-user discussions.

We also have an IRC channel in irc.freenode.org channel #modest

try modest

For Nokia N900, Modest is preinstalled, it is the default mail application. For Ubuntu distributions karmic and lucid we have the Modest PPA. Follow instructions there to install Modest.

license

modest is available under a BSD-like license. tinymail is available under the terms of the LGPL. Please refer to the source code for the details.