Here are my problems with MfE

Im using Exchange 2010.

1. It does only work with public certificate. Was not able to use it when we had self issued certificate. Earlier MfE had no problems - you just said "accept security certificate anyway" and off you went. But not with N900 MfE.

2. I have sync set to every 15 min. But if sync fails once due to lack of internet connection - the schedule does not seem to pick up again when you then have connection again - a manual sync fixes the problem.

3. MfE takes EVERY SINGLE folder and tries to sync them all. That is a pain in the B*tt since I have about 9GB of mail in my folders. Had to limit settings to last 4 weeks just to get my data in there.Other MfE only syncs inbox. Other products you can select which folders to sync.

Read my mini review of other N900 stuff on http://kaz911.blogspot.com

vitaly: thanks for all the details about MfE. I have another question: I use nuevasync to sync my N900 with google Calendar. At the moment nuevasync merges all my google calendars to one N900 calendar.

So my question is: when syncing to an Exchange 2007 server, does N900 MfE implementation support multiple calendars?

Hey, I have MFE working on my 2010 server at work and it's working great. I'm wondering however is there a way to select only certain folders to be sync'd? I have about 30 folders in my inbox with some of them having about 4 layers of sub folders, ideally i'd like only 3 or 4 folders and the inbox to be sync'd, is this possible?

FYI - From the error logs from a Kerio 6.7.2 server trying to use Activesync against it:

[19:19:45] ASyncRequest.cpp: ActiveSyncRequest::Initialize: Unable to read request data (ContentLength: 3392, Available: 0)

Kerio forums say the Nokia implementation of Activesync is not correct and recommend using RoadSync. Dataviz does not offer a Maemo version of Roadsync. I would rather use the built-in tools.

Not pointing fingers, just trying to improve the N900. How or where does the N900 store its logs for MfE?

My Nokia 5800 has no problems with MfE and Kerio. Works great.

Kerio's interface reports iPhone activesync as 12.1, Nokia 5800 as 12.0, and the N900 as 2.5. Also, the N900 shows up as "Smartphone" instead of using its actual name like for the Nokia 5800 and iPhone.

when will mfe work with exchange 2003? i use my n900 as a business phone and i really need those thing! in the year 2009 / soon 2010 it seems very strange to sync your business mails, contacts etc. with pop-server or some strange ways (the pc suite sync also doesn´t work on my pc)

greets from austria

Not really. The CA bit in the certificate is one of the validation path constraints. It means that that certificate is supposed to be able to sign certificates under it. If a cert is not marked as a CA, prudent path validation will fail for any certs that claim to be issued by it.

End-entity certs are supposed not to have this set, even if issued by a known, "global" provider.

See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt section 4.2.1.10.

Please note I receive the exact same error message. A few details:
- Mailserver = Exchange 2007 SP1
- Allow non-provisioned devices is set to True
- Certificate is installed and visible through control panel on N900
- SSL is on (both on server and N900, using port 443)
- Security setting on Exchange server (for Active sync) is set to Basic.

The exact same account and Exchange server works perfectly well with Nokia MfE on my E75 (and E51).

If I can be of any further assistance, please let me know.
Please help!

I would really like for this problem to go away. Exchange has my work e-mail (private mail works fine, using Nokia Mail). And this is vital for this wonderful phone to be a succes.

And happy to report: All other stuff works like magic! It is the most wonderful phone ever. (And it so happens to be our business. In Dutch: www.e-neo.nl. )

Regards,
Jan-Paul

My company is not going to support non-provisionable devices, so it looks like I'm out of luck. Seems we are running exchange 2007, however.. don't know the protocol...

Yes, this is true. Any update on this?

Same settings different results:

A few details:
- Mailserver = Exchange 2007 SP1
- Allow non-provisioned devices is set to True
- Certificate is installed and visible through control panel on N900
- SSL is on (both on server and N900, using port 443)
- Using OWA server address
- Accessing a "sub-domain" i.e. mail.company.net is access point, my mailbox is mail.sister.com (set as Email in MfE settings), don't know if this is an issue, works for others via android exchange and imap

Getting "Error in communication with Exchange server" error halfway into sync. It is not the non-provisional issue, a few Droid users are synced using same settings (and Droid also needs non-provis access).

Any more thoughts?