Modest is a
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email client developed by
Nokia's maemo project. Small and lightweight, it is intended for use on hardware with “modest” resources, in particular
Nokia's N800 and
N810 Internet Tablets running
Internet Tablet OS 2008, as well as the
N900 mobile phone running
Maemo. Modest is based on the lightweight Tinymail email
framework
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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
* Tinymail
*
Comparison of email clients
References
External links
Modest Homepage
Email client software for Linux
Free email software
Portable software
Email clients that use GTK
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