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.

Show me the code

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

For building in Maemo 5 platform

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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
4. 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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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.