Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

how did you get the .pem file? i am lost as i cannot connect at all to my work's mfe.

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

i have had an e71 and an iphone able to connect through my work's server. i get this error when trying with my n900. any suggestions?

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

did you see my guide on post 53 in the thread

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

The iPhone 3GS is provisionable (earlier iPhones weren't, but - pre OS 3.1 - lied about it), as (I believe, though I can't find anything concrete on this) is the E71, so it would suggest your Exchange system is blocking non-provisionable devices.

If this is the case, your only option currently is to ask your Exchange admin to disable this requirement.

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

When will the N900 support provisioning? I understand that you may not know, but how could we tell Nokia that is functionality is important? I for one will need it!

Also, is MfE provisional on the N97? If I log in to OWA, I can see:
Might there be other ways to sync the calendar and email? Is there a 3rd party app that can sync regardless of provisionability?

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

would he have to turn that off only for me, or for everyone?

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

He can create a separate Exchange ActiveSync policy with "allow non-provisionable devices set to true" and it apply it only to your mailbox.

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

You are telling it right now. Believe me, it is visible.

Yes, it is.

I have not heard about such application.

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

Thank you. I need to see my work schedule and emails on the go, so for me I need this before I can justify purchasing the N900.

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

Here is the issue i am facing with mfe.
I do a firmware update using the Nokia PC suite
I setup my account for Mfe and it works fine.
try to sync it and all is well wit the world.
I setup a wireless connection using the internet connections and try to sync with server and i start getting ' Either the exchange server requires secure connection or account is either disabled"
Any subsequent attempts to sync yield the same error. Deleting the wireless connection does not help either.

Anyone else tried these steps or face similar problems or notice this pattern?

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

Cryptic. Reboot does not help either, right?

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

Nope...tried it a few times to notice this pattern....

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

I have not filed a bug, but I found a solution.

When I configure the mail for exchange settings I only select calendar and contacts. And when the first initial sync is finished I enabled email sync in the settings..

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

hi there.
how can you select only to sync contacts and calendar?
thanks

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

I yesterday received N900 and MfE functionality is vital to me. The first sync with MfE 2007 server went without problems. However, it appears that none of the following syncs has been successful. I always get error message:

Error: Either Exchange server requires secure connection or account is disabled.

(The connection is marked as secure, port 443. And why are two distinct reasons combined into a single error message?)

OWA 2007 shows:


[This is N900, only the first successful sync:]
SmartPhone Fri 12/4/2009 07:13 OK
First Sync on: Thu 12/3/2009 18:42
Last Successful Sync: Fri 12/4/2009 07:13
Device ID: 3569380303*****
User Agent: UQExchange/1.0

[This is E71, not anymore in use:]
IMEI3529240245***** Thu 12/3/2009 17:44 OK
First Sync on: Thu 9/17/2009 23:29
Last Successful Sync: Thu 12/3/2009 17:44
Device Friendly Name: Nokia/Mail For Exchange
Device ID: IMEI3529240245*****
Device Model: NokiaE71
Device OS: 00.21.012
Device IMEI: IMEI3529240245*****
User Agent: NokiaE71/2.09(158)MailforExchange


What does the error message mean? Is there some fundamental reason why N900 MfE does not work?


Ilkka

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

Actually, it appears that some of the syncs are successful and some fail. It might be related to certificates, because I remember getting certificate errors every now and then in E71???? (In E71, you could accept a certificate even if it appeared invalid)

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

There is for some reason different if you start the mail setup wizard from the settings menu and chose mail for exchange and start the setup wizard if you open email from the menu.

So I had to start it from the settings menu and mail for exchange.

Hope this helps!

N900 Mail for Exchange
 

Hi all,

Got the device finally and it is indeed amazing device, but I have small problem with the mail for exchange. I didn't find solution from other threads so far. Mail works perfectly, I have setup the mailbox to sync e.g. between 30minutes.

Problem is that it will sync ONLY if the internet connection is ON. If I close all internet connections (mainly to avoid battery run out too soon) it doesn't automaticly connect to internet and sync the mailbox every 30 mins. For example in E55 phone automaticly connects into internet for sync as scheduled and then automaticly closes the connection after completed.

How can I setup the N900 to act in the same way as e.g. E55 Mail for Exchange? Any ideas?

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

Did you save the certificate for your server manually? M4E on N900 does not save for you like E71. Some have had success, others not depending if your IT department allows non-provisional devices.

see my post 63

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...xchange&page=6

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

I did not save any certificates manually, I just set up MfE settings through the wizard and the initial sync was successful. (Actually I was amazed at that point of time how easy it was to set up.)

However, after the initial sync, the phone has synced successfully only very occassionally (probably 1 in 100 attempts is successful or something like that). If set to automatic sync, the error message is displayed repeatedly on phone display, which makes phone basically useless so I have now set MfE sync to manual.

After reading the forums, the reason could be also that our Exchange server enforces password on the device.

Is it possible to say from the error message that I am getting ("Error: Either Exchange server requires secure connection or account is disabled.") if this is related to the password enforcement or is it some sort of certificate issue?

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

its possible that initial sync ignores certificate as normally your exchange website has to send that to you on first pass. Subsequent passes it would expect the cert to be in place. It would do no harm to install the cert

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

I have now copied the certificate of the webmail site (https://webmail.hpuss.de/owa) to N900 Documents folder. How is the certificate installed in N900?

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

I visited the site in N900 browser. It didn't recognize the certficate but allowed to add it as an exception. As a result, I can visit the webmail site through N900 browser, but MfE does not use the certificate. Has MfE got some separate certificate store?

Re: N900 Mail for Exchange
 

On mail settings you may define when sync is made. By default it is made only when WLAN is available. Just change it to any connection.

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

webmail site will not do it. You will have a specific site for your exchange server. You can get the url to this off the device you are currently using.

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

you use the file browser on n900 to look at the cert, and it should give you option to install. Once installed you can check that it is there under the control panel certificate application

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

This is too strict in saying. Many organisations run their MfE over the same server that hosts OWA (Outlook Web Access, the "Exchange Webmail")

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

OK, thans for your quick advice. I used Windows XP & IE7 to export the certificate in .P7B file format including all certificates in the certication path if possible (that was the only way that N900 showed the "Install" button. It seems that Root certificate is Verisign Class 3 Primary is already in N900, but not the 2nd certificate Verising Class 3 Secure Server or the 3rd which is the actual sercer certificate). I selected the type of certificate as "Server". However, MfE is still produces the same error :(

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

You are right. To re-phrase the question, is the OWA server the one indicated in your current device?

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

At least in my case Outlook Web Access (OWA) server and the server specified in Mail for Exchange settings is the same server.

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

Vitally, you've offered more frequent and succinct communication than any other Nokia employee who posts on this forum. Would you please join Nokia's marketing department and apply those communication skills to our non-technical questions? ;-)

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

As soon as I left office and was transferred from WLAN connectivity to 3G connectivity, the MfE started to work! It seems that I am also able to connect through my home WLAN.

I don't have any clue why this is the case, but at least at the moment MfE works for me!!! ::D

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

found out they will not do this for me :mad:

ohh well thanks for the support. however, it raised another question. would it be possible for the n900 to spoof itself into being seen as a supported device or does that lie somewhere else?

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

Thanks for the information, this actually worked now with Google!

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

It would be possible, yes, but the developers have flat-out refused to do this. It's probably in violation of whatever licensing agreements they have with Microsoft, and could well just lead to the N900 getting blacklisted from Exchange altogether.

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

Exchange is failing due to certificate issue for me too. Copied certificate to phone but I can't get it to install. I can just see details.
How do I install the cert?

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

[QUOTE=vitaly_repin;408106]You are telling it right now. Believe me, it is visible.

I'd like to provide my voice to the provisional / non-provisional discussion.

N900 is the most modern Nokia smart phone with QWERTY and IMHO the best option for a corporate user today.

It is almost a show stopper that the corporate exchange is not usable and may force me to immediately by a competitors' product that works. I for one, am not too worried about the drawbacks of this feature. Corporate IT are quite a responsible & moral people, there's so much else they could misuse as well if they wanted to (but naturally won't).

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

my first experience with mfe today: i set it up just to sync the calendar from my google account and it worked fine. from the little that i've read here, i'm not sure if there is anything supposed to be wrong with this. the only bug i have encountered is that although the times for my events are correct, their description displays a time that is one hour previous to the time the event occurs. this doesnt affect the functionality, but it is a little odd.

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

Normally this happens when your time zone or daylight savings settings are wrong

Re: Mail For Exchange ?
 

Having the same error here "Either Exchange server requires secure connection or account is disabled",
It was working fine for one week, then it stopped synching after reflashing the n900.
I restored the settings from a backup and it kept flashing this error over and over again.
I removed the device from the mobile devices list in OWA but still no luck.