Fourier series: Does pointwise convergence and absolute summability imply uniform convergence?

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I think I read somewhere that if a Fourier series converges pointwise to some $f$ and if the Fourier coefficients are absolutely summable, then the Fourier series converges uniformly.

But now I am not sure that this is actually true.

Is this true?

What I do know is that if the limit function $f$ is continuous and the coefficients are absolutely summable then the convergence is uniform. But does this work with continuity replaced with pointwise convergence? My intuition tells me that this feels wrong.

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Suppose $f$ is 1-periodic and $(c_n)$ is the sequence of its Fourier coefficients. Let $S_nf = \sum_{|k|\leq n} c_ke^{2\pi ik\cdot}$ be the $n$th partial sum. Then, $$\sup_x |S_nf(x)-S_mf(x)| \leq \sum_{n<|k|\leq m}|c_n|$$ for $n<m$. Thus, if the Fourier series of $f$ is absolutely summable, then $(S_nf)$ is a Cauchy sequence in $C(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z},\|\cdot\|_\infty)$, so uniformly convergent.