Modest is a
free,
open-source
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,
email client
An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.
A web application which provides message management, composition, and reception functio ...
developed by
Nokia's maemo project. Small and lightweight, it is intended for use on hardware with “modest” resources, in particular
Nokia's N800
The Nokia N800 Internet tablet is a wireless Internet appliance from Nokia, originally announced at the Las Vegas CES 2007 Summit in January 2007. N800 allows the user to browse the Internet and communicate using Wi-Fi networks or with m ...
and
N810
The Nokia N810 Internet tablet is an Internet appliance from Nokia, announced on 17 October 2007 at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Despite Nokia's strong association with cellular products, the N810, like preceding tablets produced by Nok ...
Internet Tablets running
Internet Tablet OS 2008, as well as the
N900 mobile phone running
Maemo
Maemo is a software platform originally developed by Nokia, now developed by the community, for smartphones and Internet tablets. The platform comprises both the Maemo operating system and SDK. Maemo played a key role in Nokia's strategy to c ...
. Modest is based on the lightweight Tinymail email
framework
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Framework may refer to:
Computing
* Application framework, used to implement the structure of an application for an op ...
.
History
Modest was released as a public beta on December 11, 2007
and received weekly updates until its first official release as part of the
Diablo release of
Internet Tablet OS 2008.
It replaced the previous email client ''osso-email''. It is the default built-in email program for the Nokia N900 running Maemo 5.
See also
*
Maemo
Maemo is a software platform originally developed by Nokia, now developed by the community, for smartphones and Internet tablets. The platform comprises both the Maemo operating system and SDK. Maemo played a key role in Nokia's strategy to c ...
* Tinymail
*
Comparison of email clients
The following tables compare general and technical features of notable email client programs.
General
Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, O/S, licence, & interface. Clients listed on a light purple background are no long ...
References
External links
Modest Homepage
Email client software for Linux
Free email software
Portable software
Email clients that use GTK
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