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Quick tip I found on the hackint0sh forums about an issue with MobileMail crashing on a Jailbroken 1.1.4 iPhone.

Forum member Bobhope:
chown -R mobile:mobile /private/var/mobile/

Run that, will solve the problem with mail and iTunes Sync crashing.

Edit: I’ve recently found 2 new things regarding this issue. One, recently I have been unable to receive mail through MobileMail. iPhone appeared to download the mail, but wouldn’t display. This seemed to be the exact same permission issue, as with a lot of other apps that seemingly would not save anything. I’m not sure if this is due to iLiberty, but it appears there is a fix in the payload repo. Instead, I ran the above command, which brings me to number 2. Previously I did not need to run the command under root, I just ran ran it as displayed above, and it worked. For some reason it’s not working now, so I had to run su first, and input the root password.

su <enter>
<enter root password, should be alpine unless you’ve changed it>
chown -R mobile:mobile /private/var/mobile/

This is an old one, but through all the updates I’m sure some people have ended up with this ugly font back on their iPhone. Go ahead, do yourself a favor, remove it!

Gruber: Removing Marker Felt font

That will at least get you to Arial. If you’re ok with that, then you’re good to go. If you despise everything that is Arial and want to show your support to Gary, follow Gruber’s other tutorial:

Gruber: Editing MobileNotes binary

From the Documentary’s blog.

I found Helvetica looks much nicer on the iPhone’s high DPI screen (when compared to Arial).

Read Mike’s story a few comments down.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebeauchamp/2215285685/in/photostream/

To sum it up, iPhone wins.