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as far as i know mfe is now compatible with E2003 but is still a non provisioning device. my company's server requires prov. devices to allow sync and we are 1000s of users and they will not change that just bcause of me. any plans to make n900 a prov. device?

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

Last I heard there were some vague plans - it will require changes throughout the system though, so I doubt it'll be happening any time soon. Please register in bugzilla and add your vote to the relevant bug, but please don't add any useless "me too" comments.

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

You can change it on a per user basis so if you know the admin well enough ...

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

Personally I doubt it will happen on Maemo 5. Provisioning requires locked down hardware that the user can't bypass, thus requires DRM and signed kernels and all the kind of things that Harmattan may bring.

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I have search the forums for an answer but cannot find any.
Currently the N900 lacks support for syncing notes.
Is it going to be supported in upcoming firmare(s) ?

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

I am syncing with exchange 2007 and it is working great on all aspects. The problem is that I can not archive my emails. I spend a lot of time away from a computer and I like to move messages to their folders once I am done reading them. Is there something I missed in the setup or is there some other utility that will make it work?

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Hi all. I'm running 3.2010.02-8.002 & I've got MfE working fine for syncing the N900 calendar with Google, but it will only brings down ONE (1) contact. I deleted all contacts from my N900 & sure enough, the first sync only brings down one & I can't see any reason that that contact is different from any others.

Help appreciated. TX

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

Why do I always find the solution AFTER I post :o. That one contact was the only one under the My Contacts group. After I moved all the rest over, they sync'd just fine. :)

TX

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

is it possible to configure an mfe profile without verification or an active connection.

reason being my IT team are telling me that i need to disable the calendar sync for it to work but i cant disable this option without a valid profile in the first place??? any help would be greatly appreciated

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

The verification should just do a login, so the calendar issue shouldn't affect that side of things.

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Hi Vitaly !

Any news about the famous bug of syncing recurring events with Exchange 2003 and MFE ?

The bug https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7971 still appear not assigned and not fixed yet.

I know that PR 1.2 is coming ( I was thinking that this week would have been the right one but , as we can see, it will be probably not :-( perhaps we'll receive PR 1.2 as Easter egg ;-) )...do you think the fix will be included in this update ?

I REALLY NEED this bug fixed ...I'm still not using N900 (and now it is 4 months waiting for one reason or another) because of the various problems with Exchange 2003 sync :-( :-( :-(.

Grets from Italy,
SkyEagle

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

If anybody else has a persistent problem with as-daemon taking up 100% of the CPU whenever the net connection is up, regardless of reboots, *and* regardless of the fact that no MfE account seems to be configured (strange, that), I ended up doing

chmod a-x /usr/sbin/as-daemon

as root. Pretty drastic but sure "fixed" it for me.

As for the "no account configured" part, I *did* have sync configured previously. It subsequently stopped working and I removed the config via the control panel app. Yesterday I tried to reconfigure it but it kept hanging at the login stage, so I tried debugging it as per the MfE debug instructions. The strange part is that syslog shows as-daemon syncing some calendar events from my exchange account... even though it's not configured at this point.

Oh well. I'm just glad the runaway CPU hog is gone. I'll worry about syncing my work calendar another time.

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It sucks real bad that there is no provisioning. Complete failure on the part of NOKIA

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Hi.

I have i problem i sync my calendar and contacts with gmail and it works but it is one problem and that is the birthdays shift one day + or - after a complete re-sync white-out that the original data in gmail is effected. Mostly their is no problem changing the birthdays to the correct date but some entry's change automatically to a incorrect date.

Is tear somebody that have any ideas to what is the problem and how to correct it.

I know that this may be the wrong thread to replay in but if somebody know where to post it please tell me.

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

Have the same problem... when syncing with google contacts - the birthday date shifts one day forward

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Hi !

I am one of the few lucky ones, who is using mfe with Exchange 2007, and working like charm, except 1 problem :

Every time I am trying to open an attachment on my N900, the following happen :

- Indicator shows working process.
- After few seconds the following error message shows up : Device Storage Full.Remove data to free memory.
- The attachment name, (like : picture01.jpg) immediately turns to : no subject
- If I try to click on it again, either an empty page shows or with few line text with mixed code and partid and the attachment original name.
- Does not matter which attachment ,as it is the same with jpg, pdf, etc.

If I am checking available memory, I have more than 1.5 GB FREE on each drive, both on phone and memorycard.

I have really no idea what is the problem, but could anybody help me on this please ?

Many Thanks in advance,

Andrew

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

Open xterm and type df, press enter, copy and paste the output in a post here and I'm sure someone will be able to help you.

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

Here it is, and THANK YOU in advance for any help :

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso26+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ root


BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso26+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

Nokia-N900-51-1:~# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 233344 190024 39040 83% /
ubi0:rootfs 233344 190024 39040 83% /
tmpfs 1024 96 928 9% /tmp
tmpfs 256 84 172 33% /var/run
none 10240 80 10160 1% /dev
tmpfs 65536 4 65532 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2064208 192912 1766440 10% /home
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
2064208 192912 1766440 10% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
2064208 192912 1766440 10% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
2064208 192912 1766440 10% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
2064208 192912 1766440 10% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
2064208 192912 1766440 10% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1 28312128 2470208 25841920 9% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1 7961892 32 7961860 0% /media/mmc1
Nokia-N900-51-1:~#

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

hello !

i can't read all 130 pages of this thread so just one question :

will Google Mail Exchange Sync be fixed for 1.2 and / or MeeGo 1.0 ??

Thanx

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

As far as I know, no. And technically it's not broken, as it's not even in the specs at the moment, so it's new functionality that's required. See https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5835 and http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...nchronization/

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

The amount of memory available looks fine.

read the following if it helps:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5706
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7257

Have you installed any applications from testing or devel?
It seems you've managed to trigger a bug which hasn't been resolved yet.

edit: have you tried to save the attachment first and then to open it from the local folder?

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

Hi

I'm just wondering if better support for appointments is comming in PR 1.2? Work uses exchange server 2003 or 2007 I'm not sure. The big thing I miss is the ability to Accept/Decline appointments and see Message details like who was invited.

Is this being worked at?

Thanks in advance

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

For google contact/calendar sync, function is available in symbian and Nokia should have SME (subject matter expert) how this can be done to sync with device and google.

Not sure why it's difficult for Nokia to implement this funciton to N900.

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

Your highly demotivating comment doesn't even makes sence. If your are not sure on the reasons why you assume they didn't bring an expert in the project?

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

Hi

Need some help in troubleshooting the mfe configuration.
I have bought my N900 a week back and has got the latest update installed
(PR 1.1.1 ). Then did the setup for my corporate email using mfe.
I am using unsecure mode , connecting to port 80. All went well, the intial synchronisation was smooth and ,mails, contacts and meeting reqs all were synched . The problem I am facing is synchronising after that, I have setup always online mode (later changed to 15 min) and every time it tries to synch it gives the following errors.
1. Exchange Server Not responding. Verify account settings are correct
2. Error in communication with Exchange Server

But I am able to send mail as well as recieve mail when I do the manual synchronisation though it gives me the above errors.

If I do a full resynchronisation things work smoothly and no errors are thrown.


I have gone through different threads and have seen posts for similar problems but a little confused. Is it that i need to wait for the next release or was it already fixed in PR.1.1.1 and is there any work around.

Thanks in advance

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

I think this is an error synching certain folders ("Deleted Items" IIRC being the main one) - install the MfEfolders app and deselect all the folders you don't need.

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I have posted a feature request to google for N900 MfE compatibility, please can you login to your google account and vote for it?

Go to
http://productideas.appspot.com, login and search for N900 in the box. There are two issues on there at the moment. Feel free to vote for both!

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

Hi

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I'm a new N900 user and I haven't got a clue what the above means, or whether it would help in my situation.

I'm trying to get a cobbled-together Exchange setup working on the N900. I've successfully installed the self-signed cert but as pretty much expected given MfE's apparent dilligence for certs, it didn't work.

The problem is that the server is behind a dynamic IP address and the DynDNS service, fetching emails from another domain so the auto-assigned certificate points to another domain, so I guess the self-signed certificate for the server is invalid. I've actually tried to stick in a CNAME from the email domain, but that doesn't work either.

So putting it in a nutshell:

- Server fetches email addressed to foo.com via POP3
- Server's self-sign cert is for remote.foo.com
- .pfx Cert installed on N900
- Server is behind foo.dyndns.com
- Connecting to foo.dyndns.com didn't work
- Set up CNAME for remote.foo.com -> foo.dyndns.com
- Connecting to remote.foo.com didn't work either (works OK via web on the N900 after adding permanent exception)

How would I get MfE to work, if at all?

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I am facing the same problem as "guazz". Basically I am a symbian geek but a total noob with maemo. Now the package that is to beinstalled, how do i install it? which one should I install? Would really appreciiate if someone would push me to the right direction so that I could learn all these basics. Thank You in advance...

BTW, for the moment, I have installed it from the Extra-Devel repository from the Application Manager on myN900. Just wanting to know how to or which oneto install from the packages.
Like there is i386, armel blah blah.... and i am confused what to install where :P

Re: Mail for Exchange (MfE).
 

The current version is in both extras-testing and extras-devel, so the recommended installation process would be to configure and enable one of those repositories (after having read the prominent warnings about these repositories), then install the application via App Manager.

You should try and avoid installing packages outside of App Manager, as you're likely to run into dependency issues. If you do want to do so, you'll need the armel version and not the i386 version.

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

hi Vitaly, how about a little update on the development process of MfE ?? :)

It's been a while since we've had some news :p

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

I've had my n900 2 months now... I'm on the latest update and at no point have I had issues with e-mail! I sync my personal account, my hotmail account and my work exchange account (2007 I suspect this is). Setup was easy, at no point have I had any major issues, the issues have experienced have been serverside I believe. Pull e-mail on the n900 - does exactly what it says on the can!

Thanks vitaly_repin :)

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Thank you very much. BTW, I installed the app and believe me, it works like a charm.... :)

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Hi there

What is the status of the provisional MfE things? is it still a stoper for exchange if the organisation has decided not to allow phones to synchronize unless they allow autolock?

I can't consider buying this phone unless somebody tells me that thi issue has been fixed (I need my professional emails on my smartphone otherwise it becomes just...a gadget...and therfore would continue utilizing my N97 which works perfectly with MfE

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

Exchange Provisioning is not available in Maemo 5 on N900 and (in my opinion) probably will never be available, as it requires DRM on the device.

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

Due to the problems I have had (and still have) getting my N900 to work with Exchange outside of our office I made the decision today to continue with the Blackberry 8120 Pearl's for another 2 years

A shame as email was the driving force behind the decision and im still waiting for neopwn2 with no pending release date and no potential fix on the MfE for it to work with ease I just couldnt take the risk

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

Is there any plan to support multiple exchange accounts in an upcoming release? I really need that.

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Question: Our exchange server seems to conform to the requirements to get this working however it won't work. We do require that users re-authenticate every 10 minutes when using webmail, is this what could be causing the connection error?

As a side note the MfE connection wizard on the n900 is really poor, if your e-mail address contains an apostrophe, the wizard won't accept it but it won't bother telling you what the problem is, it just greys out the "next" button. Also not letting you save your settings unless you succesfully connect to exchange is pretty daft.

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It shouldn't do. What error are you actually getting? If it's an authentication error, have you tried running the certificate debugging steps?

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I checked my folders and there was no directory /home/user/.activesync/certs so I created one. I looked in /home/user/.maemosec-certs/ssl-ca/ and there were no certs. Could only find certs in /etc/certs/common-ca as .pem files

I tried smlink from /etc/certs/common-ca to /home/user/.activesync/certs but this did not work.

I have tried importing the cert as a .p7b file and saving it in /home/user/.activesync/certs and this did not work.

I have emailed the .p7b file and opened it in gmail and it did not work.

I have opened the zimbra(exchange) webmail site and accepted the certificate in the n900 browser and that has not worked.

running maemo 5 version 3.2010.02-8.002 on brand new n900

Apart from this hassle what a very nice thing an n900 is.

Can you please help.