I can't get the standard mail client to work with my company's exchange server. Touchdown on other devices works fine. I haven't tried Touchdown on the Xoom yet, I'm sure it will work fine, but I thought Honeycomb was supposed to have all of this straightened out. Tablet has a pin and is already running in encrypted mode.
Not sure what else to try. Of course this just works on the iPad and IT is rubbing it in...
Do other android devices work? I use corp exchange and it has worked on stock android for me in 2.1,2.2 and 2.3.
You could try k9 mail, it's always a little more updated than the stock app.
EDIT: Also, when I setup my exchange mail I have to not include the domain name.
graphicsman said:
I can't get the standard mail client to work with my company's exchange server. Touchdown on other devices works fine. I haven't tried Touchdown on the Xoom yet, I'm sure it will work fine, but I thought Honeycomb was supposed to have all of this straightened out. Tablet has a pin and is already running in encrypted mode.
Not sure what else to try. Of course this just works on the iPad and IT is rubbing it in...
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I unfortunately cannot help you but can verify that the email app works fine with Exchange 2003 and SSL for me.
works fine with my exchange. i think i had to edit server settings manually. like you enter
"[email protected]"
server settings was set to "company.com"
i had to edit server setting to "webmail.company.com" to get it work
I use Kerio at work (I know this is an Exchange Thread, but Kerio uses ActiveSync, and the corp sync account), and have been really underwhelmed with the email setup.
I get contacts, email, and my one personal calendar, but none of the exposed public folders, public contact lists, or public calendars that my DroidX sees.
I was hoping as well that honeycomb would have these kinks worked out. Sucks to have Gmail be the "main" supported interface, and not really have a robust corp choice.
as a side note, there's a "Touchdown for Tablets" app that works fine with your old touchdown license key and offers more real estate, but I'm just sick of having to use a third party app, and am just using my phone for now. The office is going to Exchange sometime this year, and I can hold out on the tablet until then.
Xooms exchange support is fine. In fact it has the most support its ever had. I use it with both a 2003 and a exchange 2007 server and both were a breeze to setup. The 2003 server does not even have a valid SSL cert and it still was easy.
That being said I would still recommend touchdown. It gives you tons more options and does work pretty darn well. Their tablet support is still a little rough but they will quickly get it better.
Xooms exchange support is fine, best its ever been. I use it both a 2003 and 2007 server and both were a synch to setup.
I would recommend Touchdown though. It has tons more options and is pretty slick. It looks pretty good on tablets but has a few rough edges because of the huge screen.
despich said:
Xooms exchange support is fine, best its ever been. I use it both a 2003 and 2007 server and both were a synch to setup.
I would recommend Touchdown though. It has tons more options and is pretty slick. It looks pretty good on tablets but has a few rough edges because of the huge screen.
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Are you referring to the "Touchdown for Tablets" version?
graphicsman said:
I can't get the standard mail client to work with my company's exchange server. Touchdown on other devices works fine. I haven't tried Touchdown on the Xoom yet, I'm sure it will work fine, but I thought Honeycomb was supposed to have all of this straightened out. Tablet has a pin and is already running in encrypted mode.
Not sure what else to try. Of course this just works on the iPad and IT is rubbing it in...
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What exactly is it doing? I was having problems trying to add my Exchange account when I went through Settings, Accounts. It was telling me my address/password combo was incorrect, and I couldn't get past it.
I tried withing the email app itself, and I could access the manual settings. That worked fine.
Moral of the story is: if you were trying to add from Settings, try adding from within the email app.
I'm adding from within the mail app. I literally get a popup after it talks to the server saying "Server requires security features that your Android device does not support". Identical setup works on iPad and iPhone. I'll try again tomorrow with touchdown.
keitht said:
Are you referring to the "Touchdown for Tablets" version?
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Yea touchdown for tablets. Although I have used the regular touchdown for a long time on my Droid Phone and it was good as well.
Dan
graphicsman said:
I'm adding from within the mail app. I literally get a popup after it talks to the server saying "Server requires security features that your Android device does not support". Identical setup works on iPad and iPhone. I'll try again tomorrow with touchdown.
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Hmm. Sounds like your exchange organization has some restrictions set in the "Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policies" that maybe the Xoom does not support. Sounds like the Xoom is saying I can't fully support the security policy they are asking for so for the orginizations sake it's not going to not permit you to setup email.
Using this policy they can Force things in the policy like requiring a password, requiring encryption, password expiration, etc etc. Even items like disabling some features of the "phone" are settable. Every version of Exchange Supports more and more options. As you can see from the attached screenshots of the options from exchange 2007 it has a ton of them.
Luckily mine are not set very stringent. I don't know which one(s) xoom doesn't support but given the multitude of them. It could be a few.
Talk to your Exchange admin and tell them to mellow out on the restrictions some. They CAN setup a policy just for you that is less restrictive. Or try touchdown it may allow you to setup.
Dan
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+1 on despich's response.
Buy your Exchange admin a coke (or something he likes), show him your Xoom, and ask him why he thinks you're receiving that error.
Odds are, he'll be enthralled with your Xoom, and will want to get it to work. Odds are, it's some random security policy that needs to be relaxed, though I can't think of what it could be at the moment (based on the error you received), as 3.0 supports full encryption and PIN security, which are the typical security policies enforced.
Touchdown works great. I transferred my regular version (didn't know there was a tablet version) to my Xoom and it works just fine
Aside from the fact it asked for permission for remote wipe of my device from my school, our school's .edu exchange server through outlook.com went swimmingly with stock application.
I mention it because my school does, in fact, have some ridiculous policies associated with the server.
In OWA you can go to the mobile phone tab and turn on logging to see what is happening.
graphicsman said:
I can't get the standard mail client to work with my company's exchange server. Touchdown on other devices works fine. I haven't tried Touchdown on the Xoom yet, I'm sure it will work fine, but I thought Honeycomb was supposed to have all of this straightened out. Tablet has a pin and is already running in encrypted mode.
Not sure what else to try. Of course this just works on the iPad and IT is rubbing it in...
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OP: *edited*
All of the advice above is valid but I will share my experience. In short the exchange auto discovery process seems a little less forgiving than in this OS than some others I have played with. Thes others include, other android versions, ios, and WinMo. The advice about having to use the manual process was the a key for me but I will add some specifics.
My company has changed the name of its exchange server a couple of times in the last few years. Our exchange
Server for webmail and phones was "vexxxx.com", later it was "webmail.vexxxx.com" and later still it was "exwebmail.vexxxx.com."
for some reason other OS have been better able to find the correct server during autolocate but this client stopped trying at the first address "vexxxx.com" the trick is knowing figuring out that address if you don't know it.
If getting the correct info from IT is not convenient you can try this. If you have webmail access for this account you may be able to observe the correct server adress in the URL bar of your desktop web browser when you are at the login page.
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Touchdown has never failed me. I just wish they would clean up their user interface. The native Honeycomb mail clients are crisp and clean, with nice usability touches. Touchdown is long past due to adopt a similar cleaner interface. Until then, it stays off the Xoom.
Right, Touchdown never fails but its like Excel invaded your mail client.
Setup was painless I am on exchange 2010 as well as 2007. Great exchange support
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Hi,
I'm rather excited to announce the very early stage alpha release of my push-email client which has been an ongoing fun project of mine ever since I dumped my Blackberry for an i-mate Jam (actually I went via a Treo with Chatter which was almost as good as the Blackberry).
What I have implemented is a IMAP transport which supports the IDLE extension. Therefore if you mail server provides IMAP access (many do) you can probably have push-email on your Pocket PC without running exchange and without any intermediaries. And obviously as this is IMAP, all new email and changes are synchronized both directions on your desktop and your PDA. This is only a 'transport' and so you will still use Outlook (or any other MAPI client) as your user-interface.
Now a few comments:
The code is in a pretty early stage, but I have personally been running it for a while now without any problems. I know of a few bugs, and will put up a bug-tracker sometime over the next couple of days; in the meantime, please post here for help and bug reports.
I have tested the IMAP implementation against a few different servers, but there might be some issues. Please post here if you have problems and I'll provide you with a debug version which will allow you to help me diagnose the problem.
A few of the main limitations of the current release: 1) only incoming email (sending is now my top priority for the next release); 2) only one mailbox (and it must be your INBOX) can be synchronized; 3) no attachments at the moment.
Battery life of your PDA will obviously be limited, as a socket connection is kept open. However, I have personally found there to be very little difference under normal usage.
Clearly you need to have a 'data plan' from your provider, and under normal usage the IMAP client will be transmitting data on a regular basis. So if you pay per MB, this is going to cost you. I have been careful to keep this to an absolute minimum, but it will obviously depend on how much email you receive. In 'idle' mode (i.e. with no incoming or outgoing email), the traffic will be less 0.5kB per hour.
There is no particular reason why this shouldn't run on other Pocket PCs. However as I have only tested it on my i-mate Jam, I'll have to leave that up to the patient and brave for the moment (if you do try and have problems, please post or email me, as I'm hoping to provide support for as many phones as possible including Smartphones).
I will eventually support WM5. Why bother as there is already push-email provided with WM5? Because this way you don't have to have an Exchange email server!
So enough from me. If you're still willing to give this ago, I'd very much appreciate your feedback. I've put the downloads and some brief installation instructions here:
http://www.vgsmail.com/ppc/
Hope this works for you!
Geoff.
Hi, the 512bytes an hour sounds good, but some providers 'round up' the data, im not sure what rules they follow, and by how much or how often. But you may find that it ends up being 100k an hour because of this rounding.
Does anybody know how to find out the rounding rules for networks in the UK such as Orange and O2 ?
FWIW, T-mobile UK don't round and simply compute the 'total' over a full month.
I'm verry glad I live in The Netherlands. T-mobile NL has a flat rate plan for GPRS/WIFI/UMTS only €9,50 without limitations, even no fair use. As much data as you want. The only limitation is the max. bandwith for UMTS (64KB). Doesn't matter since the MDA has no UMTS.
Greetz,
Giovanni
Hi geoffreycross,
This could be what I'm waiting for. But i cannot get it to work properly. First installed it to storage following your steps and got an error that it couldn't get a socket. After soft-reset I got the error that it couldn't open MAPI interface. Reinstalled it to main, recreated the mailaccount in different orders nothing changed. Errorlog is greyed out, so please send some debug code.
I'm on flatfee TMO, so the data costs or no problem.
Looking forward to your answer,
M
oltp:
I have PM-ed you with a debug version. I forget my email address on the original post. If you have bugs, you will get the fastest turnaround if you email them to [email protected]
The transport can definitely not be installed onto a storage card and I would recommend trying. I'm not sure about the client executable, but I doubt it (and it's pretty small anyway!). I am surprised it worked at all. However the problem does not sound like it is related to the storage card. I'll give a full diagnosis when I see the debug trace.
Geoff.
Well played
only just installed this program, seems to work with Leeds Uni imap accounts. excellent solution to a much overlooked inconvenience.
Who needs BlackBerry with this little gem.
Cheers
Geoff, this looks great! Thanks for your efforts! Question I have is how this solution differs from the existing functionality in the built-in mail client to connect and get mail every x minutes? My understanding is that this is still a pull solution driven by the pocketpc keeping an open socket and querrying the IMAP server on a regular intervals. Am I missing the obvious here? Regards & Thanks
Edited to remove duplicate post. Have no clue how I did that. Apologies.
RE
GREAT WORK!
Make it works with Gmail and Yahoo Mail and it'll become GREATER!
Keep up the good work
I've got a problem with WebIS Mail 2
I can't choose vgsmail (choice is between POP3 and IMAP) there :
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k_kirk said:
Geoff, this looks great! Thanks for your efforts! Question I have is how this solution differs from the existing functionality in the built-in mail client to connect and get mail every x minutes? My understanding is that this is still a pull solution driven by the pocketpc keeping an open socket and querrying the IMAP server on a regular intervals. Am I missing the obvious here? Regards & Thanks
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There is an extension to IMAP called IMAP IDLE which I am using. In this mode, you keep the socket open but you don't need to actually do any polling as the server pushes messages down the socket as soon as they arrive. So when a message arrives you will generally receive it within seconds, and when no message arrives there is no data being sent in either direction (with the exception of a keep-alive message very 30 minutes or so). This is exactly how Blackberry and push-email with WM5 works (although they use their own proprietary protocols which require you to use their servers).
DocteurN:
I have just tried out WebIS2, and it seems that they don't use the standard 'MAPI' interface for email (this is slightly surprising and disappointing as the API is designed to be available to 3rd parties). Therefore my transport won't work currently with WebIS. I'm going to have a look and see if I can reverse engineer their storage format and if I can I will be able to support WebIS. In the meantime, I'm afraid you will have to use the built-in Pocket Outlook.
Geoff.
FOSA:
Unfortunately gmail and Yahoo both provide POP but no IMAP which means that you're back to polling on a regular schedule (and that is not 'push-email' really). There are a number of groups trying to pressure Google and Yahoo to implement IMAP support (apparently it is the most requested feature of gmail).
In the meantime, have you considered using a mail provider like www.fastmail.fm which would pull email from the various servers and provide IMAP access to them all?
Geoff.
Isn't this how Seven (Smartner) works?
http://alwaysonmail.com/
BaldBoy said:
Isn't this how Seven (Smartner) works?
http://alwaysonmail.com/
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Yes and no.
Seven does use IMAP, but the connection is made via an intermediary server owned by Seven and your PPC will then connect to the Seven server using a unspecified protocol. Therefore you need to give them your userid and password. The code I have written connects directly to your own mail server and cuts out the 'middle man'. To be honest, I have no idea why Seven implemented it this way (other than to allow them to charge a yearly subscription).
Suggestion
Using the software, so far seems excellent but I've noticed two things so far:
- The setting to only pull messages within X days doesn't seem to work, it's downloading all the messages
- When you connect to the server after losing GPRS connection for a while, when it reconnects it displays new email message despite them not being new. Would you be able to limit the new email message to unread emails only?
Cheers for this excellent application, your effort is much appreciated
herman3101:
1) Yes, there are a number of settings which are currently ignored. The size limit of the initial download is also ignored. I have these on the bug-fixes list. The date limit on the downloads is slightly more complicated as the synchronizing is now constantly happening and so it might appear a bit strange if your messages suddenly disappear as their age 'expires'. I will think about that one.
2) Yes, the 'new email' notifications are a bit screwy. I will fix that asap.
hi geofreeygross
hi. this push email idea is excellent. despite your warning about wm2005. i still install on it and it doesnt work. my inbox when create a new account. i can see your mail option but after finish creating. the account doesnt appear and gprs cannot connect anymore after that. hard reset again. i really hope u will release a beta version for me to test. thank you.
hi. you said that wm2005 already support push email but need the exchange server. how to do that? i need to suscribe to who? is it free? thanks
I'm getting a Hermes, mainly for the push mail function. Although the problem is that I don't have access to an Exchange server, so I was wondering what services other people use and how they rate them. As I've mentionned in another post, I have a GMail account, and I'd like to try and keep that, although if need be I would be willing to setup another e-mail account.
Many thanks,
Dave
I use www.4smartphone.net and find it amazing. You have to pay a small fee to sign up but it is well worth it.
Mark
Am I right in thinking that I can't use that with my GMail account?
You can forward your gmail account to your exchange account. Gmail has an option to save mail on their server and forward at the same time. I do that.
I use Exchange hosting from http://www.1and1.com they'r reliable and cheapest. $20 for 3 months.
~Karanbir
1and1 has a cheap exchange server if you have a domain. (so like 5 a year for the domain plus whatever their exchange server cost).
It worked but I started to hate that I couldn't put in my "real" e-mail adress. (not sure if all servers are like this, but on theirs all your outgoing mail says exactly what your e-mail is, and I like to use a different reply to mail adress.)
So I stopped using it.
Here is an odd little aside though. The Flexmail beta version works as true push (even though you still can't select the push icon in the comm manager).
But the beta only worked on my everyone.net imap4 account and not on my 1and1 imap4...
mail2web
You can always use www.mail2web.com. And it's free. You get 1 gig e-mail address, push-mail, outlook web acces, and so on. Is supports ActiveSync over GPRS/3G. I think the only drawback is the connection speed, maybe country specific. I live in Romania, and it takes a little while to get synched, even on 3G connection. Anyway, push mail works really great.
Cheers
I too use mail2web. You can send "From:" the mail address of your choice (providing it's yours) as an extra service for a mere 60c per month or so. Otherwise it's free and works great.
Their free service doesn't allow you to set the "From" address to anything other than [email protected], 60c per month gets you anything you like.
Push email
I highly recommend http://www.cortado.com. Their service is fast, reliable and costs only about 6$ a month w/ a two month trial period for free. I have been using this service for about six months and have been very pleased with the service. Their Webmail menus have icons with labels in german, which aren't difficult to figure out. This isn't a problem for me as I hardly ever find myself needing to access my account via webmail.
Alternative solution
Well, I use my HERMES without the Push-Mail feature: As long as you use GPRS you can check your eMails every 5 Minutes without loosing considerably on battery life. I do that with my gMail account (POP3, SSL-encrypted) - works perfectly. Nice feature: gMail will automaticly archive all mails you collected via POP3.
No fees, no forwarding etc. and 5 minutes of "lag" should be ok for most of us.
To switch between 3G/UMTS and GPRS when needed and preserve battery you can use "BandSwitch" - you will find the free application on this site in the Hermes forums. Its beatifully designed.
I've been using mail2web also for quite a while now and I'm very happy with it. Best of all: it's free ;-)
if you don't mind leaving your desktop computer on all the time, then www.emoze.com is a viable option.
It runs an app on your desktop that "pushes" all the mail you receive in your Outlook inbox out to your device...
Yup - web2mail here too. It's free and I generally get my gmail mail pushed to my handset before it gets to my PC. No real complaints.
Also from this site there is http://www.port88.org/ which also free.
The main draw back that I have found from web2mail is that I can not overwrite the reply address to a non-'web2mail' address unfortunately.
Does anybody have any thoughts on how Push versus POP affects battery life?
MetalMushroom said:
Yup - web2mail here too. It's free and I generally get my gmail mail pushed to my handset before it gets to my PC. No real complaints.
Also from this site there is http://www.port88.org/ which also free.
The main draw back that I have found from web2mail is that I can not overwrite the reply address to a non-'web2mail' address unfortunately.
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I have the problem that I can sync over wifi with web2mail, but it doesn't work over 3G web 'n walk dutch t-mobile, any ideas?
Problem found; my 3G is not working on my current location................
lindseyp said:
I too use mail2web. You can send "From:" the mail address of your choice (providing it's yours) as an extra service for a mere 60c per month or so. Otherwise it's free and works great.
Their free service doesn't allow you to set the "From" address to anything other than [email protected], 60c per month gets you anything you like.
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Could you tell me where you found this extra 60c service? I can't find it anywhere on their site??
Mail2web definatly worth a go. I use the push mail feature but also use it as a backup for my contacts, calender and tasks.
REALLY worth it if you tend to flash new ROMs or HArd Reset quite often.
MetalMushroom said:
Yup - web2mail here too. It's free and I generally get my gmail mail pushed to my handset before it gets to my PC. No real complaints.
Also from this site there is http://www.port88.org/ which also free.
The main draw back that I have found from web2mail is that I can not overwrite the reply address to a non-'web2mail' address unfortunately.
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I have been using http://www.port88.org/ offering for a while now and it's very good, there is a thread on this here on xda-developers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=273878
I also use the push mail on my Nokia N73 'play phone' which works great as well. There is good documentation for set up (one of which i wrote
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Does anybody have any thoughts on how Push versus POP affects battery life?
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I haven't done any testing but when I was just using pop email and checking every 15min then my battery life would maybe go down 10% during my 11hr shift..
Now with push email active I usually go home with around 50% battery life left..Seems to take around 40% more for me. If I used my phone alot it seems that it would be a problem for me..
Has anyone managed to set up their N1 to work with a hosted exchange server? My corporate IT doesn't have a clue what I'm talking about unfortunately. We use USA.net to host, I have a proxy exchange server I have tried as well as the usa.net server that shows up in Outlook. I love this phone but if I can't get exchange working it has to go back. Any ideas or experience would be appreciated.
Should work fine. I use mail2web hosted exchange. You wont get your calendar but you'll get contacts and email. There are other options for getting the calendar working. Motocal.apk is one of them.
Should being the operative word here. Every configuration I have tried has been unsuccessful. I was hoping there was a super secret setting somewhere for hosts or proxies that I was missing.
I connect to exchange server 2003 with no issues. Make sure they have webmail enabled. Are exchange server is xxx-exc-01 and I use webmail.domainname.com to connect to the server via webmail.
I use touchdown from the market. The stock app doesn't support many of the security features corporations use in exchange. Touchdown is free and full featured for 5 days so you can see if it works for you. It does calendar and tasks too and works better than any of windows mobile phones.
If it works it costs $20 after the trial but it is worth it.
I use a hosted exchange also and have no problems. Are you sure you are putting the proper username in? For example mine is exchange/e123456789
Also, make sure you have their correct exchange server address. For example, 1and1's address is exchange.1and1.com
What is probably happening is that your Nexus One isn't an "accepted" handset... I work for a carrier, and they and they had to change the email security settings to include the Nexus One before it worked...
I used TouchDown during that period, and like it a lot! Very good app, can get it free if you take advantage of the repeat trial window issue. I am using the stock app instead of TouchDown, though, since I prefer it's simplicity.
Well, touchdown works with the same info that didn't connect on the default app. No push though, which is strange. Thanks for the heads up on this app, I'm not too fond of the interface but it is better than nothing.
asv said:
Well, touchdown works with the same info that didn't connect on the default app. No push though, which is strange. Thanks for the heads up on this app, I'm not too fond of the interface but it is better than nothing.
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You can get close to stock app interface by making a homescreen short cut straight to your email folder:
On deisred home screen... Menu:Add:Shortcut:Touchdown:Inbox(I think is what they called it, recently flashed a new rom and didn't re-install so can't say 100%).
It will be a homescreen short cut straight to the inbox like the stock app does.
I have the gmail app and use it for my personal email, however I would like to be able (if possible) to get/send my work email that I currently use outlook for. Any suggestions?
K9 Mail works for me. It's free in the Market.
Cheers,
kev
Exchange by TouchDown is what I use for my phone; sadly they're kind of jerks when it comes to licensing. Unlike most applications which are account-linked and locked, TD device-locks theirs and makes you buy additional licenses through their website if you have, say, an Android phone AND tablet. Which is complete crap, given the $35 purchase price (down to $20 at this point).
That said, it works fairly well, is tablet-optimized (and autodetecting), and has made a number of iDrones quite jealous given the slick and powerful interface, and full feature support to make the IT.Security department happy. Only reason I picked it up was that it was the only solution that worked, back in the G1 days.
s52m3 said:
I have the gmail app and use it for my personal email, however I would like to be able (if possible) to get/send my work email that I currently use outlook for. Any suggestions?
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Have your Exchanage Admin enable OWA (Outllok Web Access) for you. Provided Security protocols allow that in your organization. OWA allows you to access your email from any browser. Granted, it's a bare-bones profile and it doesn't "push" email out but it can suffice.
skeeterpro said:
Have your Exchanage Admin enable OWA (Outllok Web Access) for you. Provided Security protocols allow that in your organization. OWA allows you to access your email from any browser. Granted, it's a bare-bones profile and it doesn't "push" email out but it can suffice.
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good idea I forgot about OWA. it looks to work fine in opera. wht does "push" mean as you refer to it?
s52m3 said:
good idea I forgot about OWA. it looks to work fine in opera. wht does "push" mean as you refer to it?
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Long story short, "pushing" email is taking the email messages that hit Exchange and "pushes" them to your phone, tablet, adroid device. With OWA you have to login to check and see if you have new email messages.
Satisfy your Exchange Admin and don't "save password" on your NC. That way if you loose or mis-lay your NC, your email password is secure.
Talesin_BatBat said:
Exchange by TouchDown is what I use for my phone; sadly they're kind of jerks when it comes to licensing. Unlike most applications which are account-linked and locked, TD device-locks theirs and makes you buy additional licenses through their website if you have, say, an Android phone AND tablet. Which is complete crap, given the $35 purchase price (down to $20 at this point).
That said, it works fairly well, is tablet-optimized (and autodetecting), and has made a number of iDrones quite jealous given the slick and powerful interface, and full feature support to make the IT.Security department happy. Only reason I picked it up was that it was the only solution that worked, back in the G1 days.
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I'll agree with the license deal i'd love to put it on my phone as well. But for running on my NC with honeycomb i'm loving it.
I used to us K-9 but switched over to MailDroid
Hey Folks,
managed to install Win8 Consumer Preview without any problems..running smooth and stable on a medion AIO Touch Machine..
Also managed to create a domain account on that machine..
Question :
We have a Exchange Server 2003 in our local network..i tried to create a connection in the Mail app by adding an account -> Exchange, entered all the required informations and tried to connect, without success, after 2 minutes always failed.
Anyone an idea what could be wrong or is it just because of the consumer preview.
Or is it a thing because of SSL ?...
But there are no possibilities to configure them...
Any hint is highly appreciated.
Saludos
Sunny
Got the exact same problem. Looks like its ok at first since a green box appears to the left, and then it says syncing right before it fails and asks for further details.
Then i just get "[email protected]" not available. Think its just broken in the preview.
Same Problem with Exchange 2007.
I installed Win 8 on my Lenovo X220T. When I want to use the calender it tells me to register a microsoft account, but frankly spoken, I don't want to. So is there a way to directly add an exchange account, where all my calendar data is stored? And where do I add an exchange account?
Thanks!
What is weird is I had Exchange working fine by signing into the Microsoft Account and setting it up. But then I joined our domain, and now I cannot get it to connect at all.
It may be a glitch in this preview, but try un-joining the domain and see if it works for you then. I just did that, and my Exchange inbox is running again.
sinister.dexter said:
What is weird is I had Exchange working fine by signing into the Microsoft Account and setting it up. But then I joined our domain, and now I cannot get it to connect at all.
It may be a glitch in this preview, but try un-joining the domain and see if it works for you then. I just did that, and my Exchange inbox is running again.
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So, what does that mean? Does it mean that I HAVE TO sign up a microsoft account in order to not syncing with it, but with my exchange server? I want to directly sync with my exchange server... windows phone 7 can do it as well...
lamajstro said:
So, what does that mean? Does it mean that I HAVE TO sign up a microsoft account in order to not syncing with it, but with my exchange server? I want to directly sync with my exchange server... windows phone 7 can do it as well...
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I couldn't find a way to not sign into a MS account before setting up my exchange account (but yes, after that it directly syncs).
This could easily be because this is a consumer preview, of course. But I have a MS account, so it wasn't a big deal to me. I signed in, and it let me sign into the exchange account.
But again, the odd thing is once I joined the domain, I lost the ability to set this up. When I left the domain, the exchange account worked again.
For now I'm just chalking that up to pre-release weirdness, and using it off domain.
sinister.dexter said:
I couldn't find a way to not sign into a MS account before setting up my exchange account (but yes, after that it directly syncs).
This could easily be because this is a consumer preview, of course. But I have a MS account, so it wasn't a big deal to me. I signed in, and it let me sign into the exchange account.
But again, the odd thing is once I joined the domain, I lost the ability to set this up. When I left the domain, the exchange account worked again.
For now I'm just chalking that up to pre-release weirdness, and using it off domain.
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Can you please tell us which version uf exchange you use... and is your exchange connection ssl based?
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Can you please tell us which version uf exchange you use... and is your exchange connection ssl based?
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Yes, Exchange 2007, uses SSL.
Attached is what the display looks like once it's up. Sorry for all the redacting, but I don't want to spread anyone's personal info.
The inbox is pretty basic, and your options are limited, but then I've not installed an Office product or anything, I'm just connecting through its normal interface, the way I would through Windows Phone or the like.
Going to try installing Office in the Desktop environment today I hope. No idea if that'll work at all.
Connected to 2 Exchange Servers
FWIIW I've got it connected to two Exchange Servers (a corporate 2007 system and a hosted 2010 system) and it is working.
A few notes:
Those that have commented here about having to first logon with an MS Live account (if joined to a Domain or using a Local User Account/Profile) I am seeing the same thing. Not real happy with this (actually I’m not real happy with a lot of App issues surrounding the whole “must use a Windows Live Logon/Profile to get the full features of this App approach but I promised myself I’d not do the rant in this post”) However once that has been done it appears that you can set up multiple accounts with ease.
Having corporate IT correctly set up Exchange Front-End Certs and Mobile Device Policies correctly are critical (and yes, I’ve designed a few Exchange systems in my time so I know some of the mistakes that can be made there) so if people are seeing policy-applied errors or sync refusal problems it could be because of the Beta nature of the app but I’d also would be looking at the Front-End or CAS server setups as well as currently deployed policies (depending on the version of Exchange)
Overall my impression so far is that the App feels remarkably like the original email/calendar App in WP7, which is a shame because what MS should be shooting for is an App that works more like the WP7 Mango version. Like that version I’d really like to see the following:
• Option to create separate tiles for each account or selectively combine accounts together at the users discretion (this feature kicks ass over the iPhone/iPad/Android options right now and I want it in Metro as well)
• Option to select Calendars and Colors that I want to use in the Calendar Function (right now I get every Calendar folder I have created on both exchange servers – hated that on the pre-Mango WP7 and hating it on WP8 DP as well
• Needs to work correctly regardless of whether it is a domain account, local account, or MS live account (seriously MS, this should be a no-brainer)
With only 36 hours to really bang on it so far I’m sure I’ll find a few more quirks but so far it kind of sorta works as advertised for me. Juts needs a LOT of refinement