Exchange active sync on Linux

[Mike Kallies]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:11 AM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Morning,
>
> I am curious if anyone here know of ways around getting mails to mobile
> devices other than using Microsoft Exchange.
>
> We have an old 2003 installation that need updating but I would like to
> check out alternatives out that I may do similar things. We are also weak on
> Microsoft technology so something on a platform that we use daily would be a
> great fit.

If you only need to do mail, IMAP is great.

The hard part is if you need to do mobile calendaring and syncing of
corporate contact lists etc.  IMAP won't help you.

If you *need* to do ActiveSync(tm), Z-push seems to be the only FOSS
option, it integrates with Zarafa, but I've not personally tried it
and would like to hear other people's experiences.

http://www.zarafa.com/content/mobility

They have a virtual appliance to download-and-test the core product.



If you don't need ActiveSync, but you do need calendars and other
stuff, the "see also" section of the Zarafa Wikipedia entry has a list
of projects to check out too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarafa_(software)


A standards based approach would be to support IMAP, CalDav and CardDav.

Note that Android doesn't support any of these natively and I haven't
yet found a good set of apps to do the protocols.

But Android does do ActiveSync(tm) :-(



-Mike
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