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Ludwigw · 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks for helping me fix my mail :)

fester99 · 1 year ago

you can also use the boss prefs and select more tab and then click on fix user dir permissions.

aptmunich · 1 year ago

Fixed my mail as well!
For the record I did restore from my backup, so it looks as though that could be it.

Joe · 1 year ago

dear god, awesome. Thank you so much.

Benjip · 1 year ago

Awesome stuff, thanks Ben (from another Ben).

Chocolate · 1 year ago

Geniussssssss. Many thanks for providing those guidelines and explnantions, all perfectly working now!

Daniel · 1 year ago

Did the trick!

Enrico · 1 year ago

Thanks!!

stevequilala · 1 year ago

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!! I was noodling on this all night. I tried every way I could to do it through Mail.app settings and the iPhone Settings > Mail. None of them worked.

The directory listing didn't change right away on mine, but everything still worked.

raph1992 · 1 year ago

Thanks!

Sick of the Whiners · 1 year ago

Works perfectly using mobile terminal on my phone. Thanks!

metime · 1 year ago

Didn't work for me using mobile terminal - and now the Apps from the app store don't work either. Borked.

beng · 1 year ago

Wow, it sounds like you've typed in a command incorrectly? All my app store
apps are fine. Without knowing what you've done, the simplest way to revert
the settings would be to re-restore your ipsw file. I'll have a quick play
to see if I can break my Apps to see what you might have done.

beng · 1 year ago

Hmm strange. I can't seem to get my apps to break even if I trample (chown mobile:mobile) all over the /var/mobile/Applications directory.

Dave · 1 year ago

Hi there, thanks for the instructions. im having trouble connecting to the iphone over WiFi (Connection Refused) and through the mobile terminal (Operation not permitted)

Any help would be much appreciated!
thanks again

Dave · 1 year ago

ok my bad, i got mobile terminal working. for the other noobs like me:
type "login root" then use "alpine" as password before using the chown command
YAY mail!!!

Kira · 1 year ago

I am a Noob with no competence in terminal, unfortunately they do not teach Unix at school :/ , so i was wondering if yu could provide a line by line direction of what i need to type into mobile terminal? i'm sure that some may say that youhave provided adiquet directions in this post but I do not understand it. It would be a grate help if you could do very basic directions for what i need to typ in and what should come up n mobile terminal.

Thank you so much and i am glad i am not the only one with this issue.

marcus · 1 year ago

thanks for the details,
but i seem to have a problem. im using mobile terminal on 2.0 firmware and
i get this error when i use chown -R
chown :changing ownership of 'var/mobile/Library/Mail/Account.plist' : operation not permitted
chown :changing ownership of 'var/mobile/Library/Mail' : operation not permitted

do you know why i cant change the owner ?

beng · 1 year ago

Ah yeah I realise now that mobile terminal logs you in as "mobile". You
need to type "su" then enter the root password "alpine" to elevate yourself
to root before typing the commands.

marcus · 1 year ago

works fine. thanks heaps

Lost iPhone · 1 year ago

Wish I'd found this and the jailbreak before I lost my iPhone! About to go get a 3G one, I'm on the beta for iRedHanded, so hopefully next time I will be able to see the thief on the map and go bust em! :) I wish we didn't have to fiddle with our phones just to get them to do what they should do too!

martin · 1 year ago

guys, i have a slightly diferent problem witm mail.app ... whenever i wish to send new email it doesnt do anything, no network activity, nothing, just the bar at trhe bottow, saying "sending" but its not "growing" :/ do you have any idea how to resolve this one????

Nick-T · 1 year ago

Hi Martin
I had Mail running but stuck on "Checking for Mail" forever, Ben's fix resolved the issue.

Nick-T · 1 year ago

Thank you Ben worked like a charm. Does beg the question should we be changing the root password (or indeed the mobile one) to something else, and if so.. how?

beng · 1 year ago

I would think the unix passwd command would work for changing the password, but I don't know what it would break. You can always uninstall OpenSSH and Mobile Terminal if you are paranoid about remote access.

ddub · 1 year ago

finally.. THANKS..

crush · 1 year ago

Hey

I was not able to access my iPhone from the Laptop (port 22: Connection refused). But with the Terminal on my iPhone it worked.

Gurvin · 1 year ago

Ben Firstly, i never have the patience to comment, post on forums etc etc, kinda selfish I know. But I had to post here to thank you.
So what did I mostly use my iPhone for? Mails... But a restore rendered that app useless. I thought the cause was the brilliant app Bossprefs, but just today i came across ur post. Did what you wrote and voila, MY MAIL APP IS WORKING. Thanks a LOT man!!!!

P.S. Beng has posted a way to use "mobile terminal" to use your method. That was NECESSARY for me because I dont have wifi so thanks to Beng too.

Rune Jacobsen · 1 year ago

thanks alot.. finaly got it to work when i found out u had to use the capital letters... :-)

thesharpster · 1 year ago

You are a F***king Legend. Thankyou so, so much

Omer · 1 year ago

You are the man.
Thanks a mil for the easy fix.
Rgs

siliconmeadow · 1 year ago

Excellent stuff! I thought it was probably a permissions problem, but didn't know where.

I believe it explains my current inability to save photos to my Camera Roll. I worked around that one by using SwapCameraRoll, but that isn't fully satisfying as I want to know where that stuff is in the filesystem!

Thanks for your help with this one!

quentro · 1 year ago

i like your style

thanks · 1 year ago

worked fine ...thanks for your post !!!...
Agustin from Mexico

ROBERTO · 1 year ago

THANK YOU, YOU ARE A STAR!!

DaddyDoxxx · 1 year ago

Thank you very much! I've managed to do it in the mobile terminal.app using mobile Safari.app to read the commands.
Yeah, awesome, thanks again. Btw, they don't really teach Unix in Czech Republic;)

Ram0nG · 1 year ago

Thanks, works great!

WOJ · 1 year ago

Dude you ROCK!!!!
Thanks!!!

Matt · 1 year ago

Worked like a charm. Thanks so much!

spants · 1 year ago

thanks for your help!

Ben · 1 year ago

Hex ho!

Thx for this fantastic post from germany. Im sitting at the airport after updating to 2.0, wanting to check my mails and was quite frustrated, since im Going to Mexico without a laptop.

You saved my day!

Cheers

Ben

Dr. Gonzo · 1 year ago

Cheers dude :-) fixed it! anyone who has problems with installing openssh (like me) the servers seem to be very slow and down a lot of times, so i couldnt download it for some time. had to try 20 times...

Dr. Gonzo · 1 year ago

One more tip: Download Bossprefs and go on: "More" - then click on "Fix User Dir Permissions" - that should do the trick as well without using the terminal! My mail did work after the terminal fix but it didnt show any messages, so i did this and voila it works now...

Have fun...

Marc · 1 year ago

I used bossprefs too but without this post I never would have known to do so. Thanks and woo-boo as ordered!

Jon Wise · 1 year ago

Thanks! This helped a lot!

Lanny · 1 year ago

Thank you. I dared translating ot (with full credit) fpr those Czechs who do not read English-

beng · 1 year ago

Good one. Do you have a link that I can add to the article? Perhaps with "If you want a Czech version then click here" in Czech?

Kapil Gupta · 1 year ago

Ben,

ANy fixes for outgoing mail issue on pwned 2.0 with an exchange account using activesync.

I am unable to send mails using my home wifi. Can do so with EDGE or office wifi!!

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,

beng · 1 year ago

That sounds a lot like a firewall issue. Definitely not a permissions
issue. Surprising that it works over EDGE though. Sure you don't have any
outbound firewalling going on with your home network?

Tom Stockton · 1 year ago

That works a treat ..... Thanks very much for finding this out !!!

Han · 1 year ago

Dude, I love you. THANKS!

bob · 1 year ago

holy pizz fuck it worked!!!!!!! let me marrie you

magu · 1 year ago

I love you! I have tried basically everything: restore 2.0.2, jailbreak, un-jailbreak, 2.0.1, jailbreak, pray, curse... This has fixed it!

robin · 1 year ago

Ah! Thank you so much, fixed me right up no troubles!

James Noble · 1 year ago

AWESOME.

Thanks so much man. Saved me big time. Other forum posts have said that you need to do a restore as a new iPhone... that would've sucked.

JC · 1 year ago

Thanks a lot, Just what I was looking for!!!