If you haven’t jailbreak your iPhone 2.0 firmware, you have to restore your iPhone and set it up as a new phone. Yes. You will lose many data, including SMS.
If you have jailbroken your iPhone 2.0, you can fix it by ssh’ing into your iPhone and run the following command:
chown mobile /var/mobile/Library/Mail /var/mobile/Library/Cookies/ /var/mobile/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
Prior to working on Stepcase full-time, Leon Ho was Manager of Software Engineering at Red Hat, responsible for the internationalization deliveries in Red Hat products. Leon managed a team across regions in Australia, Japan, China and India. Leons division added support of 22 languages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and migrated new internationalization technologies into products. He founded Stepcase's Lifehack in 2005, a blog on productivity and personal development, which became #40 most popular blog in the world. Stepcase has been featured by major medias such as Time Magazine, BusinessWeek and Hong Kong Economic Times.
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July 30th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Hi, I am desperately trying to get Mail working on jailbroken iPhone 2.0. Have installed Open SSH and have run “ssh root@xxx.xxx.x.xx”
but I get the following message
The authenticity of host ‘xxx.xxx.x.xx(xxx.xxx.x.xx)’ can’t be established.
RSA key fingerprint is ed:df:14:f6:87:c6:74:36:0c:3a:45:02:e8:c5:20:f2.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
What do I do next? Pressing return means yes?
Sorry it’ll probably sound stupid to you, but I have not the clue what to do.
Thanks!
August 1st, 2008 at 12:29 am
Type yes, than press return.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Thank you so much! You just saved me from loosing all my data!
August 27th, 2008 at 7:36 am
. . . also works on 1.1.4 thanks a lot for the directions to rescue mail after a restore ;-)
ps. i connected via a sftp client and repaired the permissions of the mentioned folders&files this way . . .
August 28th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Thanks for the fix, man…Mail fired right up after that line…
August 29th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
thnx man that was the solution to my problem
upgraded my 1.1.4 to 2.0.
but mail crashed all the time.
this helped.
August 31st, 2008 at 6:18 am
well bert, i know u
and i know you gonna fix this issue for me
coz i dont know how and understand anything that starts with host … /// ++ //..?? host end /.?..
thx mate