[horde] Help for Activesync

[murali at itechservices.in]

> First sorry Reg subject
and   
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> Thank you Torben Dannhauer for the detailed clarification about 
> Activesync and i am interested in utilizing Activesync to sync address 
> book, calendar and tasks  with outlook.Can we use Evolution to sync 
> everything including mails with horde for Linux clients?

Thanks & Regards

Murali


> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:40:03 +0200
> From: "Torben Dannhauer" <torben at dannhauer.info>
> To: <horde at lists.horde.org>
> Subject: Re: [horde] Help for Activesync
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> 
> HI Murali,
> 
> You seems to mix up two things:
> a) Exchange is the full flavored groupware developed and maintained by
> Microsoft. You can connect to it via the proprietary exchange API, 
> mostly
> used by MS Outlook.
> b) For mobile devices, MS Exchange provides a special protocol called
> "Exchange ActiveSync" which is not a groupware but a "communication
> language". This protocol is available in mobile clients for example iOS 
> or
> android.
> 
> Traditionally, MS Outlook only allowed to connect to an Exchange Server 
> via
> the Exchange API. Outlook was not able to talk "Exchange ActiveSync 
> (EAS)".
> 
> Since Outlook 2013 this changed, EAS became a widely used protocol in 
> the
> last decade, so MS decided to "teach" Outlook also the EAS language - 
> but
> during account setup in Outlook you have to choose "ActiveSync", _NOT_
> "Exchange", since this would use the Exchange API.
> 
> Horde provides this EAS "language", so you can connect to it using any 
> EAS
> aware client - forMS Outlook you have to use at least Version 2013.
> 
> Is Horde is a 100.0% Replacement? No, it is not. But imo it is quite 
> good
> and since most users do not use 100.0% of Exchanges functionality, you 
> may
> consider switching. I use it in my private environment it is very nice!
> 
> I assume you want to sync address book, calendar and tasks? That works 
> quite
> nice with outlook.
> Email via EAS is not that nice (Outlook 2013 is very buggy regarding 
> EAS),
> but you can setup an IMAP account to the same email account for email 
> usage.
> 
> Please look at http://wiki.horde.org/ActiveSync for further 
> documentation.
> 
> Regards,
> Torben Dannhauer
> 
> 
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> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2014 08:58
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> 
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am new to horde and installed horde webmail groupware 5.1.6 in wheezy 
> with
> postfix and dovecot. Everything works fine as far as mail transactions 
> are
> concerned .I have enabled activesync option and when i try to connect 
> the
> outlook to horde with option of Microsoft Exchange  i get the error 
> message
> saying there is no exchange server running. Can anyone help me in
> configuring horde to sync the mails to outlook? Is Horde Activsync 100%
> replacement for MS Exchange server? If yes kindly provide proper 
> document to
> make it work.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Murali
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