[horde] Can't sync calendar & contacts, ActiveSync, horde4, android 4.0.2

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Daniel Basa <daniel at luli.de> wrote:

>Am 02.02.2012 23:16, schrieb Michael J Rubinsky:
>>
>> Quoting Daniel Basa <daniel at luli.de>:
>>
>>> Am 02.02.2012 16:24, schrieb Michael J Rubinsky:
>>>> Quoting Daniel Basa <daniel at luli.de>:
>>>>> Am 02.02.2012 15:47, schrieb Michael J Rubinsky:
>>> I don't want to sync mail using horde (thought that would not
>>> work?). I am using z-push to sync/push mail.
>>
>> I'm curious as to why you feel ZPush's email support provides a
>better
>> experience than either Android's native client, or an app like K-9
>mail?
>
>I am using K-9 mail. But I don't want to check email every now and
>then.
>I would like to receive email when it's delivered to my mailbox. Z-Push
>pushes the mail to my phone. I don't have to initialize checks for new
>mails from my phone on a regular basis.



>> Anyway, how did you configure ZPush and Horde? Hopefully on either
>> different (sub)domains. If you configured your device with two
>different
>> exchange accounts, both pointing at the same server, this will cause
>> lots of problems.
>
>Yep, I took care of that. Z-Push is running on the "subdomain handling
>the mail-traffic" (mail.example.org). Horde is set to work on the
>webmail sub-domain.
>
>> Past that, I'm out of ideas, unless you want to provide a network
>trace.
>> Maybe somthing will show up there.
>>
>> Oh, one more thing - you didn't by any chance turn off the email sync
>> for this account on the device did you? For this device (or maybe for
>> ICS in general), this is REQUIRED to be enabled, otherwise even if
>you
>> have enabled calendar and contacts the device will never perform the
>> initial SYNC - which it doesn't seem to be doing... I think I have a
>> note about that on the wiki page I referred you to earlier.
>
>You are hitting the nail on the head (At least in Germany we would say
>so). After having the trouble with the device not showing up in the
>device list I disabled E-Mail-syncing. Just to investigate the problem
>on my own and play with some settings. The idea was to try on my own
>before I ask someone else. Well, seems like it worked out the other
>way.
>I did ask someone else and I am the blockhead now.
>Sorry for bothering you with this.
>I reenabled E-Mail syncing and readded the exchange account on my phone
>once more and voila: It is working! Syncing calendar and contacts. The
>only thing is that I can't see other calendars on my phone than the
>default although they are enabled for syncing, but thats another story.
>So now I can say good-bye to google and backup my contacts online
>(Never
>gave them to mighty google ...)
>
>I am very thankful for your help and I am sorry for me being such a
>blockhead.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Daniel
>
>P.S. You are right, it is on the wiki! *shame*

FWIW K9 mail does push email you just have to tell it to in the account settings. I've been using it that way for years.
mike
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