The procedure to take logs is described here: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=228

The procedure to install syslog is described here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...5#Installation

Thank you in advance.

Vitaly, my server does not accept non-provisionable devices. Can you please let me know whether the n900 could theoretically support this feature?
I simply not understand why it is currently not included.

Cheers

@captainrollo

vitaly explained his predicament with the provisionable-feature in this post.

basically, it comes down to the fact that Maemo is a real linux system and as such too "open" for proper support of the provisionable feature.

Thanks for the link. Good explanation.
Can the described policies ensured by the Exchange server? In other words: is it possible to have some kind of wrapper on the n900 that decides whether to trigger some kind of action or not? I know, it does not solve security requirements...

I've just set up exchange 2010 on a server and my n900 won't connect to it. It complains about not having a secure connection but I have activated the secure connection flag. The Nexus One on the other hand connects fine to the exchange 2010 server. It seems like the Nexus One has an additional flag that says "accept all SSL certificates" and that has to be on for it to connect to the exchange 2010 server.

See http://wiki.maemo.org/Mail_For_Excha...related_errors and http://wiki.maemo.org/Mail_For_Excha...d_certificates

My N900 worked well with PR1.1 and Exchange 2007. Last weekend, I updated to PR1.2 and MfE was still working ok.

This week, our company migrated to Exchange 2010. Now my N900 refuses to work with the new server, citing the ominous double error banner/notification "Error in Exchange server" and "Error in communication with Exchange server". I've just spent the evening trying to solve this, but to no avail. I also tried to manually force protocoll versions as noted in the wiki.

Here is a snippet of what the log says:

Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ASDAEMON-CONN: startSession start, aWait=30 seconds
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ASDAEMON-CONN: CURL-CONN-CALLBACK: Action=2
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ASDAEMON-CONN: CURL-CONN-CALLBACK: Action=1
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ASDAEMON-PING: Ping is disabled.. Ignore Ping action
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ASDAEMON-CONN: CURL-CONN-CALLBACK: Action=4
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ASDAEMON-CONN: startSession end, ret=0
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: AS-PERF: Transfered 2197 bytes in 0 seconds. Transfer rate is 0 Kb/sec
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: CurlConnectionManager: sendReceive attempt 1: CancelErr=0
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: HTTP REQUEST headers:
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: User-Agent: N900/1.1
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Host: owa.mycompany.net
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Connection: Keep-Alive
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Authorization: <skipped>
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: MS-ASProtocolVersion: 12.1
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-sync.wbxml
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Content-Length: 13
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: HTTP STATUS: 500
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: HTTP RESPONSE headers:
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Cache-Control: private
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Connection: Keep-Alive
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Content-Encoding: gzip
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Content-Length: 663
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Content-Type: text/html
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:42:12 GMT
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: MS-ASProtocolCommands: Sync,SendMail,SmartForward,SmartReply,GetAttachmen t,GetHierarchy,CreateCollection,DeleteCollection,M oveCollection,FolderSync,FolderCreate,FolderDelete ,FolderUpdate,MoveItems,GetItemEstimate,MeetingRes ponse,Search,Settings,Ping,ItemOperations,Provisio n,ResolveRecipients,ValidateCert
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: MS-ASProtocolVersions: 2.0,2.1,2.5,12.0,12.1,14.0
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: MS-Server-ActiveSync: 14.0
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Set-Cookie: cadataBC5FE30244F94E409B2B3F65AD9456FE="2a7a6a840-b548-481f-ba7e-3d9250d35fcc9Qvd7cuMFr+2Rd31UIjvdXvdy6Un6TPRriWVWt mauJqDWqQdEMFiTydmrDaQP5t+RAcULPzLNxu0DyjqPWx3Fz29 LsiTCKolNONmgy87F2IaUSpWPXGKe5vZoF2WX5U6+rnzwRKKJJ G/J0h6IMNiTg=="; HttpOnly; secure; path=/
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: Vary: Accept-Encoding
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: X-MS-RP: 2.0,2.1,2.5,12.0,12.1,14.0
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: AS-LIB: FolderSync response received (500)
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: AS-LIB: FolderSync ends with status 500
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: AS-LIB: Action execution ends with status 500
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: AS-LIB: FolderSync failed with status 500. Abort retrieving estimations
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: AS-LIB: Action execution ends with status 500
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ActionFullSync: ItemEstimate failed with status 500. Abort.
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ActionFullSync::doExecute end
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ActionWarpper - action completed with result 500
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: SyncScheduler:nSyncCompleted aStatus=500, mForcedSchedule=-1
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: StoreProxyImpl::freeSpaceAvailable avail=422826, blocks=516052, aSize=0, bsize=4096, result=1
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: UiNotifier::showInfoBanner aId=9
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: UiNotifier::showInfoBanner aText=Fehler im Exchange-Server
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: QString StoreProxyImpl::getUpdatedItems()
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: currentUploaded=''
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ASDAEMON-SYNC: Sync mail complete: Camel ActiveSync provider is notified
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 [1544]: activesync: modest_activesync_plugin_on_queue_changed(0)
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 [1544]: activesync: modest_activesync_plugin_on_queue_changed: operation added
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 [1544]: activesync: END modest_activesync_plugin_on_queue_changed
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 [1544]: activesync: modest_activesync_plugin_on_operation_finished(10, 0x9e620)
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 [1544]: activesync: modest_activesync_plugin_on_operation_finished() end
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 [1544]: activesync: modest_activesync_plugin_on_queue_changed(1)
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 [1544]: activesync: modest_activesync_plugin_on_queue_changed: operation removed
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 [1544]: activesync: END modest_activesync_plugin_on_queue_changed
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ASDAEMON-SYNC: Successfully sent the notification that the sync has been finished
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: ASDAEMON-SYNC: Successfully sent the home applet notification
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: AsStatusManager::handleSyncCompleted(1, 500)
Jun 2 21:42:13 Nokia-N900 activesync[1559]: AsStatusManager::handleSyncFailed(1, 1, 9)

It seems like the connection tries to use protocoll version 12.1 which is supported by MfE on the N900. However, I can't see any failure reason in this snippet (I have a much longer log here, of course, if needed).

Additional criticism: Exchange sync is absolutely critical for such a device. If supports is unstable, AT LEAST provide an easier way to log and more precise error messaging. Also, avoidthe confusing double error notifications (banner/notification).
Worst of all, if initial sync fails, all settings get lost each time the user tries anew! (I've entered my credentials and server info a dozen times tonight). The current solution is heavily annoying - even to hardcore users like me.

And Nokians - Please update the MfE wiki page for PR 1.2

Hi guys,

Not very useful I know, but maybe it will give people hope.

We have two N900s happily working with Exchange 2010, never been an issue. Non-provisioned of course :-) It has always worked for us, from PR1.1, through 1.1.1 to 1.2.

Cheers,
Mark.

Thanks Mark! It gave me hope indeed, so I went to our Exchange guy for a friendly chat - turns out it was a account-specific permission problem of Exchange 2010 that he quickly solved for my user.

Conclusion: Mail for Exchange on the N900 does sync with Exchange 2010!

If you encounter the error I mentioned above on your first sync with Exchange 2010, ask your Exchange admin/support about the known issue of missing permissions on initial sync. Use the following references for more information:

• Exchange 2010 ActiveSync Issue
• Same problem for iPhone users
• A thread on Microsoft Technet

Provisioning doesnt work.
Vote for the bug here https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8452