[horde] Problem with Android Horde Activesync - Can't add account, Gmail's security settings are more secure than those set by

[Simon Wilson]

Quoting Ronny Forberger <ronnyforberger at ronnyforberger.de>:

> Hi,
>
> Am 16.11.2019 um 19:25 schrieb Michael J Rubinsky:
>>
>> Quoting Ronny Forberger <ronnyforberger at ronnyforberger.de>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Am 16.11.2019 um 19:07 schrieb Michael J Rubinsky:
>>>>
>>>> Quoting Ronny Forberger <ronnyforberger at ronnyforberger.de>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi List,
>>>>>
>>>>> so Google has to actually fix it? Or does it have to be fixed on
>>>>> Horde?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, Google has to fix their app. In the meantime you can try another
>>>> ActiveSync client.
>>>
>>> Ok. Well I have tried Outlook, but it always sends the email address as
>>> username to Horde, although there is a seperate username field as well.
>>
>> I think it's a side effect of the Autodiscovery logic they use.  You
>> can set a config in Horde (Admin->Configuration->Horde->ActiveSync)
>> It's under AutoDiscovery, but that setting has been overloaded to also
>> affect the authentication step as well. Choose "Use only the
>> username....".
>>
>> If you still have trouble, the "Nine" client has the best ActiveSync
>> implementation I've seen on Android. It's a paid app, but has an
>> unrestricted trial.
>
> OK, thanks for that information. I didn't get the Outlook app running
> with the account, it always wanted to add my Google, Microsoft account
> and when I was going to add my Horde account, it only offered me POP3
> and IMAP.
>
> I have tried out Nine now, it's not that bad, but the contacts for
> example do not sync with the Android phone book as far as I understand.

Yes contacts sync with native Contacts directory, and that's on  
probably about 20 or 30 different devices over the years I've used it.  
By far the best ActiveSync email client out there.

Simon.

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