[Tickets #10395] Re: Email push support in activesync

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/10395
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  Ticket             | 10395
  Updated By         | Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>
  Summary            | Email push support in activesync
  Queue              | Horde Groupware Webmail Edition
  Version            | 4.0.1
  Type               | Enhancement
-State              | New
+State              | Accepted
-Priority           | 3. High
+Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org> (2011-08-01 01:19) wrote:

(1) I wouldn't call it "useless" without email, but I respect your  
opinion. The more common use case, in my experience, is having  
contacts/calendar/tasks available on your mobile device.

(2) I don't know of a single modern device that does not have a native  
(and in many cases, a choice of 3rd party) email applications. Most of  
these supporting push. The functionality you have available from these  
applications is FAR superior than what activesync, in general, can  
provide.

(3) ZPush != Horde_ActiveSync.  I didn't remove email support, it was  
never present in our code.  Our library makes use of a refactored  
version of the protocol level code in the zpush library...the code  
that communicates with the device.  All other code, including backend  
polling and state management was written from the ground up.

The zpush imap backend is based on the php imap functions. Horde 4  
does not (and can not) utilize the php imap extension, so the email  
collection support would have to be mostly written from scratch as  
well. Not to mention how horribly inefficient it would be to open and  
maintain all those extra imap connections.

Not saying it can't be done, but it's not likely to happen without  
someone sponsoring the work. Leaving as "Accepted", but it's pretty  
low on my list.