Push-Email on Linux possible?
 

Hi

I am currenty using push email with Exchange 2003 SP2, and it works like a charm; however, of course I would prefer to move this off to a linux box. I have a server that I could use for Email server, my questions is as follows:

Is there any way to make push-email work on linux? If so, how? I heard rumours about IMAP-IDLE and some product from Funambol, but I dont have any concrete information.

By the way I would like to Sync emails to my P910i Sony Ericsson mobile. It is SyncML capable.

Thanks
Ben

Excuse my ignorance - what *IS* push-email, what does it do?


Cheers,
Tink

Hi

Sorry for not explaining. Push email is a solution that will PUSH out all incoming emails to a mobile device immediately after it was received.

I am using currently an exchange server with SP2 installed, and on my SOny Ericsson P910i I have Roadsync installed. Sometimes email come in to the phone a bit earlier than on my Outlook, its truly an amazing technology, but its on Microsoft, and that is what I would like to change.

I am sure its somehow available, but dont know how exactly.

If anyone has experience, please share.

Thanks

Ben

Ok ... how is the forwarding to the mobile device done, does it
have an e-Mail address of its own, or is mail forwarded via SMS?

If it's the first it should be fairly trivial to have a rule on
almost any Linux MTA that passes mail on to both a local mail-box
as well as to the mobiles e-Mail address.


Cheers,
Tink

Hi

Well, he mobile has exactly the same Email address ,and there is no forwarding involved. I think the best description is its own name, PUSH Email.

The mobile device is connected via GPRS at all times and hooked onto the server in IDLE state, just like an Outlook or any Imap client.

When the email comes in, the IDLE connection will send a bit of data to the Mobile client, and it will immediately start to download the email.

Ben

Hi

So there is no such a solution for Linux yet?

Ben

I'm confused. Why doesn't http://www.funambol.com/ fit you requirements?

I am also very confused wether it fits my needs or not. I am browsing on the internet about that product, and I am just unavailable to find much infromation.

For example. What client does it use on the phone side?

What should be the mail server in the background? I have a Debian linux box, but there are plenty mail servers I can install, just the question is of which will Funambol be able to communicate and cooperate with? Courier? Something else?

There seems to be a lack of documentations out there.

Do you or someone else have/has experience in setting Funambol up with Linux?

Ben

It seems to me that push email involves a server side component, a carrier aggreement and client side application. Funambol is probably an answer for corporates. But how about people like me who want their gmail pushed to their p910i ?

Well actually Funambol could be what I am looking for, since I want to set my server up. Just there is a lack of HowTos on the net about the setup....

Ben

Docs look pretty ordinary, but it seems to me from

https://wiki.objectweb.org/sync4j/Wi...EmailAnExample

that it gives you a web based config tool that you could try playing around with

Hi

This is a good link, but I still dont undestand the Way Funambol works, and if it will help me or not with my need.

I would like to have a Linux Mail server, and an IMAP client on my desktop, and push email on my mobile.

Is Funambol suitable in doing so, or not? If not, is there any other possibility I can try?

Thanks

Ben

https://www.redhat.com/apps/isv_cata...cation_id=2125

Haven't tried it (obviously, since I had no idea what it is) :}


Cheers,
Tink

Now only if I understood Chinese.... On their Website the "English" button is not activated yet I guess, so no joy for me :(

Accortding to the link at http://www.funambol.com/opensource/d...documents.html it would seem to support imap servers

Looks like you may just have to have a play