Nokia Messaging 1.2.2 has been released!

Question

A new Nokia Messaging release (version 1.2.2) became available on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010.  Please go to http://email.nokia.com on your device to download the latest version of the client.  Note, if you are using the multiprotocol (built-in) client, no update is needed (E52, E55, E72, E75, 6710, 6730, N86 8MP).
Here are the highlights of this release:
Automatic consolidation of multiple accounts:
Nokia Messaging will automatically consolidate accounts when the user adds an email address that belongs to another Nokia Messaging account. In previous releases, the user would be rejected when adding a new email address to the Nokia Messaging account during setup. Now, the user may continue to setup their account and the new email address will be added to the account being configured.
Password handling simplification:
This release of Nokia Messaging now always aligns the Nokia Messaging password with the Email Service Provider (ESP) password. Users can now simply enter either their Nokia Messaging password or their current ESP password during authentication. If the authentication succeeds and their Nokia Messaging password is different from the ESP password, the account will be updated and the current ESP password will become the Nokia Messaging account password.  If users forget the ESP password, they must go to the ESP to retrieve it. As such, the Nokia Messaging web site (email.nokia.com) no longer includes a Forgot Password function.
On-device email retention:
The device now retains 30 days of emails or up to 100 emails (whichever comes first). Also, the Sent Items and Draft folders as well as the subfolders retain 30 days of emails or up to 50 emails (whichever comes first).
Destination feature available on the Nokia S60 5.0 touch devices (X6, N97, N97 mini, 5800, 5530 and 5230):
Nokia Messaging can now automatically switch to WiFi internet access when it is available. Using the device’s Destinations feature, users simply add their favorite WiFi access points to the Internet Destination (or any other Destination that they configure), and Nokia Messaging will automatically switch to it when it is available. Initial setup must still be done with a valid network SIM in the device so that Nokia Messaging can validate the user’s service eligibility. With the new Tools menu item Access point, users can define a different destination to be used or even specify a fixed APN for special cases when a Destination is not appropriate.

Answer 1

Dear Nokia people,
I'm new to S60. I bought last week an XM 5800. Wich I'm liking pretty much. However, I think there is room for improvement in email handling. I'm just saying this as a user who knows things could be better.
Here's my case. I want to be able to view my gmail from my cell phone automatically. Wich sounds simple if it can be checked manually whenever I want (making that process automatic). But it isn't.
I've tried two methods:
1) Messaging
This creates an account and everything works great if you do it manually. When I try to set it up to get my mail I can either do one of two things under "Automatic Retrieval":
E-mail notifications, wich I'm assuming uses the IDLE funcionality. I've tried this option with both possibilities, "Auto-update" or "Only in home network". This only works when I have that inbox connected wich is a good idea since it's generating traffic (costly) and using connection (worse battery life). Maybe there could be an option, if a user wanted it, to keep the connection opened even if the program gets closed, wich would make good use of IDLE and not being annoyed by the warning about exiting the app and closing connection.
E-mail retrieval, this function seems to work, for about 1500 messages, then the phone becomes reaaaaaaaaaaaaally slow. This function should have some more options like retrieving only a certain number of mails AND only that certain number. What I'm saying here is that the phone should only handle for instance the last 50 mails and drop the rest, so if I have 50 mails and a new one arrives, the last one doesn't appear anymore (on the server yes, on the phone no). This would make the application run really smoothly and the phone would not freeze.
Even if this idea doesn't get implemented, at least make the option of Number of mails to be retrieved configurable under this mode, wich under this mode is ALL.
2) MfE
With MfE, I'm able to sync my calendar, nice. And, even if on the google sync site it says the don't suppor the email sync, it works with my mail. So I set up MfE to every 15 minutes to get my mail. This is the option I'm using right now because I don't have to be constantly updating my inbox or leave the connection opened.
The catch is that for this method to work, you have to forget about dividing mails into different carpets with filters in Gmail, I had to eliminate the "skip inbox" setting in the filters that worked with the mail I wanted to receive on my XM 5800. But I guess is a good solution until I find another.
So, in conclusion. It would be very nice to be able to set an IMAP account, like gmail to automatically (every certain amount of time) retrieve a certain number of mails and to keep the inbox with that quantity. Or, at least be able to configure how many mails the inbox should retrieve.
I hope this helps. If this is the wrong place to post this, I apologize and please direct me to where this should go.
Cheers from Chile