Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

But you could let the user allow to switch to normal reply if desired. On WM devices it's only one click and the original body can be edit. (-> Change original message)

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Sure. But it needs modifications of Maemo mail client. If community modifies modest (open-source Maemo mail client) to support these 2 operational modes I will be more than happy to add required functionality to MfE.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

At first, I and the development teaam are really sorry about the problems you are having.
Second, what exactly Nokia told you? Is it about Exchange 2003 support ? Then just wait a little bit more for sw. update, pls.

Again, we are sorry about the problems you are having with our software.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Ok. Too sad I don't know if this will happen in the next months. I would have bought the N900 with smart relply, but without I'll have to stick with Microsoft powered devices. :-(

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

This feature request was discussed here last week.

I see 3rd party folder management application as the simplest and fastest way to deliver this feature.

The idea:
After the user has configured an account, the mailbox data (including folders to sync) is inside the DB. It can be shown graphically in UI as a tree of folders and it can be modified in UI using SQL-statements. When the folder is removed from sync configuration, it is not synced anymore.

If any community developer is interested in developing such application, I can give him free "consulting" how to do it. In my opinion, it is 1-2 days of work for experienced sw. developer (including testing).

A bit hacky approach, yes.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Why is it so hard for nokia to realise, that

1. multiple calendars are a good thing
2. people want to use and synchronize these calendars, not only one.

Ok, the N900 can deal with multiple calendars, but it doesn't allow syncing these multiple calendars. It's not that hard to implement, is it?

I'm mostly curious why this feature is always omitted.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

You "only" have to make Google Sync (two way) possible (=reliable!) and a lot of complains would stop about MfE...

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Not too many people need this feature (surprise). Most probably it is the reason why it is not done.

"Most probably" reflects my personal opinion here. Remember, I am technical guy, not the business decision maker.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Hi,

not a unix whizz so can you walk me though that command line by command line? I assume this is done using terminal or is can I just copy it?

Thanks

Simon

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Really? My impressions are different here. I know many people who have ditched symbian phones because of lack of multiple calendar support. I always though nobody wants his or her private appointments mixed with business appointments...

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

At my workplace, most people (including me) use one calendar (corporate Exchange calendar) as the only calendar. Private appointments can always be marked as "Private" and they are not visible to other users (but they will see time as "reserved").

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Vitaly - from your personal - as a developer - point of view (not marketing) - do you see "some sw. update" before xmas?

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Vitaly, one more thing noticed: when receiving new meeting request, its
a) displayed as an email (no big deal)
b) when opened does not offer to accept and put into calendar\accept as tentative\decline\propose new time (IMHO should be addressed asap)

Alex

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

From my personal point of view I do not expect MfE update to be available before xmas.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Not good! For next xmas?

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Yes. Meeting invitations are not supported yet. We are aware of this :)

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

How can I mark appointment as "private" in N900's calendar?

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

I think that at the moment you can't.

I would also like to have that feature.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

I've had to delete several posts from this thread now. Insults and personal attacks against fellow community members, be they Nokia employees or not, do not constitute acceptable behaviour. Return to constructive criticism and discussion of features and functionality.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Vitaly - thanks for letting me know. i will be travelling to Helsinki in early January and hope that i can pop into a care centre to get this resolved.

Vikas

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

That's sad - I thought the "protrait mode" and the 3 SIM card bug were anounced to be seen before xmas. And of course I hopped to see some MfE updates/fixes with the release also.
Hm - then we have something after xmas to wait for :D

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

I'm glad to read the "yet" in your answer ;)

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

This is exactly the same as how I use my calendar. And this is why I'd some much like to see this feature somehow implemented in N900 and MfE. And quite often one makes these private appointments with mobile phone in freetime and would like to keep these really private in the company calendar.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

can anyone tell me if this is fixed and if so where I get it as bug 5597 shows as "resolved" and "fixed". have missed a post on a forum somewhere?

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Fixed internally. You need to wait for MfE software update, sorry.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

I didn't make it thru this thread, but I wanted to say this is really important to me. I use Exchange at home and at work and I hate the idea of having to choose between having work email or personal email in my pocket. It's why I've avoided Blackberry for so long... I know I'm probably in the minority here, but surely I can't be alone.

(not that it matters to me yet, since neither of them work with my N900 currently...)

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Nokia N900 mail for exchange is utter failure. Does not work with my exchange 2007 server. Very disappointed.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

I'm sure everyone has gotten the point by now.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

If you paid $600 plus dollars for device advertised to work seemingly like E51 and E71, and it does not, you be pressing for change too. I want to quick remedy.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Absolutely I would press for change. You and I just have different methods.

My point here is that Vitaly is bending over backwards, putting in personal time here to listen to complaints and provide what answers he currently can. Many here appreciate the fact that they have a channel to Nokia. I don't want that driven away by repetitive ranting.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

I like your idea and would like to probe my skills on that project.

Unfortunately I am not an experienced c/c++ developer, but in my daily work I do a lot of LabView and MatLab programming and I know how to rtfm. I would like to try this in Python (PyQT/PySide).

Do you think Python is fast enough for this? (I just started playing around with Python on the N900)

And if a pro jumps on that project I would step aside a help with testing or whatever I could provide.

Could you give me a hint where to find the two things documented:

• accessing the DB of folders
• where to put the information of excluded folders

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Cool! I am impressed. Good surprise! Thanks!

Absolutely sure. This is just GUI configuration application and several SQL statements.

Will send you instructions using private messages mechanism today or tomorrow.

Regarding the database itself - you can find it in /home/user/.qmf It contains sqlite database inside.

Update: Sent instructions by private messaging mechanism. Don't hesitate to contact me with questions.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Vitaly you are going above and beyond the call of duty here. Most of us appreciate that. :)

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

It's so great we have a one-to-one with a key Nokia developer on MfE.

I was just wondering why you did that via PM rather than posting publicly? The latter would be more the open-source way.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Agree. But is this forum a proper place to post SQL statements? :-)

This was the main reason behind. Could you suggest the better place to discuss development-specific things?

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

If I have understood and tried the code snippets, I could put them into the wiki.meomo with some additional information around them.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

And I agree that Vitaly is doing a great job being available and responding to our concerns. It just has not made a change yet in my ability to access email. And that is the bottom line.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Long thread I haven't followed (just noticed) so haven't read everything (that'd take days), but just skimming through.

It started as "is it supported" then went in various directions. I can confirm trouble with Exch07, Google's EAS implementation and nuevasync. The problems vary depending on the server-side I'm using, but I can verify problems with receiving often 'server unavailable' messages (particularly with Google) that I've never had except very rarely for known issues (like not Internet connection :-/ )on any other device. I've used Google successfully with other mobile devices as well as a couple Macs (Calendar/Contacts - mail I just IMAP).

My biggest issue across all services is the N900's MfE doesn't a) pull over all fields per EAS protocol spec, b) doesn't properly map fields (Exch07/Google are most problematic - esp. calendar/contact notes), c) doesn't properly update N900 changes back to server, d) IM fields are not pulled into the contact they are associated with - for Google, this is really problematic - two IM addresses = 4 contacts in addition to the primary contact they came from which no longer has an IM info. Why 4 new contacts? 1 for IM address, 1 for email of that IM address x 2 = 4. Merge 50 on your phone to correct? Doesn't 'stick' - if you have to do a full resynch, you have to re-merge PLUS the 4 additional contacts created on the phone get stuck back on Google for you to go delete a couple hundred entries.

Nuevasync had so many problems (which is not the case with other devices I've used it on now and then) that after a couple hours, I went back to MfE -> Google/Exch07 direct because Nuevasync finally admitted that it seems to be a problem with how the EAS protocol was implemented.

So, I've noticed some asking for the code. If that's made available, that'd be great, but IMO there are so many issues, this should be a strong focus on Nokia/Maemo's end. I suspect the strong majority of users need this functionality whether for work or personal (Google). A BIG stretch would be to allow multiple accounts. A smaller stretch would be to support what many are growing used to and I see in forums of other devices that have implemented changes such as supporting multiple calendars (work/personal/shared) and multiple contact groups. IIRC, some are working on more than one account.

Sorry if I repeated what was said somewhere along the thread, but rather than running along smoothly with MfE by now after generations of it being out there (granted, it was on S60, I used Roadsync flawlessly on the N97 because MfE was so limited - including no HTML), a better description is I'm limping along having to do full resynchs too often.

Most of what I've noticed seems to be an issue with the protocol implementation.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

Understood. Advice here has worked for some and not for others, which can be frustrating. The unfortunate word for those not yet helped is patiently wait for updates. But constant harping doesn't rush that. Good feedback, on the other hand, can.

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE). Blame me here, pls
 

MfE on my n900 won't connect at all. I have tried with google (ok I know it doesn't work) and also with nuevasync with same results.

Mfe is giving an error, that "connection must be secure or account is disabled". I have checked the "secure connection" checkbox, where I also gave server "www.nuevasync.com" and (default) port "443".

The error is displayed instanty when I press next button on the wizard, and it feels like it doesn't even try to connect.

I emailed to nuevasync and they told me that it should work. Any idea why this is happening...?