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Apart from the General awesomeness of Maemo 5, it also has a pretty decent Email Client built in.
Here’s a bit about it.
So right under the “Email” icon in the main menu on the Nokia N900, you’ll find the Email Client for Maemo 5.
Right here you can choose to setup a new Email Service on the device.
As you can see, we setup Nokia Messaging, which is a supported Email service in the Nokia N900. Emails on Nokia Messaging are Push (or atleast they’re supposed to be) whereas any service you add outside of Nokia Messaging, remains Pull. You can fix that by listing that email service under the Nokia Messaging service though.
To setup a new account, all you have to do is tap on the drop down menu at the top.
A menu will drop down (d’oh) that will allow you to setup a new account, Edit existing accounts, Send/Receive Data and change various settings.
The Settings menu allows you to choose a default account, and the new Message Format (Html, etc).
You can also choose how your IMAP and POP accounts update, and whether to use a Data plan or Wifi only.
Ofcourse, since this is Pull, you can choose an update Interval since you cant have it “on all the time” so to speak.
Now, coming to setting up a new account, it’s as easy as tapping “New Account” on the aforementioned Drop down menu.
This will take you through to the Account setup Wizard. From there you have to select a region to search for supported services.
In my experience, this step doesnt really matter much, unless you’re using an Email service that is limited to your region or so.
At this step, it will search for supported services that you can use on the Nokia N900.
As you can see, there’s quite a list. Along with the regulars like Mail for Exchange, Gmail, etc.
Depending on the service you might need more info, such as your incoming mail server, outgoing, port nos, etc. Most cases it’s pretty straight forward and for services like Gmail, Windows Live, Yahoo, etc you dont really need much more info apart from your Username and Password.
Talking about Nokia Messaging in particular though, you can choose when and how to Sync your Email.
Every day, or just once in a while, or at certain hours, etc.
You can also choose to disable syncing when your battery gets low, and choose your send/receive time.
And you can sync your drafts too, if you’d want that.
You can also choose your download size and whether you want to sync your sent items too.
And one “setting” unique to Nokia Messaging is the ability to add more Mailboxes to the service. This can be done online at Email.Nokia.com but you can also add them within the client too.
Once you enter in your Nokia Messaging Email account the first time when you set it up on the Nokia N900, it’ll automatically add your other Mailboxes under the service. All these mailboxes have individual settings which are edit-able by the way but usually you wont have to mess with them.
All the Nokia Messaging Mailboxes that you’ve subscribed to are listed out according to their name, and a tiny unique icon for that particular service if available.
Tap on a Mailbox and you’ll see the Folders you have for the Mailbox.
Any New Email or operation (such as drafts, outgoing email) in any folder, is indicated with a Blue Font.
Tap on the folder and you’ll see any Emails you have in your inbox (or whatever is particular to that folder).
New/Unread emails are indicated in a Blue Font. Attachments are indicated with a tiny attachment icon. The Sender Name, Subject, Date and Time(if the email was received on the present day) are all shown in this view.
And ofcourse, you can also tap on the dropdown bar to view more options.
Things like Folder Details, Move Message, Sorting settings (default by Date), etc.
You can choose to sort your emails alphabetically or by subject, etc.
The Maemo has support for Rich Html so that’s always a nice thing. Tap on the Email to open it up.
From this view, you can choose to Reply, Reply-to-All, Forward, Delete, Display Images (and vice-versa) or move to a previous, or next Email.
Images are not displayed by default, so you’ll have to turn that on to see them.
You can also view more details about the Email.
Things like Time, Size, etc.
In this view, tapping the drop down bar at the top also gives you a couple more options.
Like adding the sender to your Contacts, marking the email as unread, Finding a word in the Email, etc.
Sending a new email is as easy and tapping the “New Email” bar at the top of the screen in Folder, or Mailbox view.
This is so that you know which Email service you’re sending the Email from.
You have all the basic features of composing an Email here, such as Signatures, CC, BCC, Subject, Bold/Italic characters, Inserting Images and Media, etc.
You can also add attachments among other things, and choose the Email priority and whether you want it to be plain text or formatted text.
Most importantly of all, Maemo alerts you that you have new Email with both Audio and Visual prompts.
A smaller version of the email message above appears in whatever screen you’re on. Tapping that takes you to the Email directly. If you choose to ignore the prompt, it’ll remain in your “Multitasking view” on Maemo that you can get to, by tapping the Menu icon.
To give you a better idea, here’s a short overview video on Email on the Nokia N900.
That’s basically it for Email on Maemo 5 and the Nokia N900. Have any questions ? Something we missed ? Do let us know in the comments below y’all !
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