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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.
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.
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.
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?
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 ?
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