[kronolith] Android syncing problems

Wed Mar 18 23:37:13 UTC 2015

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 09:46:38AM +0100, lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de wrote:
> 
> Zitat von David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This seems like it shouldn't be anywhere near this difficult. I've
> > been searching the web in vain for help on this.
> >
> > I think I'm having at least two problems with syncing with my Android
> > phone:
> >
> > 1) Finding an app that will do two-way synchronization with Horde
> 
> Use Active Sync. It is included without needing any additional app in  
> nearly all smartphone today and you can sync calendar,mail,contacts  
> and tasks at once.
> 
You're entitled to find this surprising. Apparently I managed to wind
up with a smartphone that doesn't have Active Sync.

Digging around, from what I can see, Active Sync is supplied on
Androids through the stock email app. Verizon didn't include that on
my phone. It's available through Google Play, but it's flagged as
incompatible with my phone (Verizon, what have you done?).

So I'm not sure what the way forward is, here. I purchased a rather
expensive app that claims to do the synchronization, but it doesn't,
at least not with what I've done. This will be a recurring theme: I
don't even know how to debug this stuff because on those rare
occasions I find error messages, I don't know what they mean.

But I am seeing this:

[Wed Mar 18 16:32:23.726620 2015] [proxy:info] [pid 54240:tid
34401707008] AH01145: Sharing worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1' instead of
creating new worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1'
[Wed Mar 18 16:32:23.726635 2015] [proxy:info] [pid 54240:tid
34401707008] AH01145: Sharing worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1' instead of
creating new worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1'
[Wed Mar 18 16:32:23.726724 2015] [proxy:info] [pid 54240:tid
34401707008] AH01145: Sharing worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1' instead of
creating new worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1'
[Wed Mar 18 16:32:23.726733 2015] [proxy:info] [pid 54240:tid
34401707008] AH01145: Sharing worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1' instead of
creating new worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1'
[Wed Mar 18 16:32:23.726808 2015] [proxy:info] [pid 54240:tid
34401707008] AH01145: Sharing worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1' instead of
creating new worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1'
[Wed Mar 18 16:32:23.726818 2015] [proxy:info] [pid 54240:tid
34401707008] AH01145: Sharing worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1' instead of
creating new worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1'
[Wed Mar 18 16:32:23.726933 2015] [proxy:info] [pid 54240:tid
34401707008] AH01145: Sharing worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1' instead of
creating new worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1'
[Wed Mar 18 16:32:23.726942 2015] [proxy:info] [pid 54240:tid
34401707008] AH01145: Sharing worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1' instead of
creating new worker
'fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1'

These messages didn't start appearing until I configured Apache to do
active sync with:

        ProxyPassMatch ^/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync$
fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/mail.parts-unknown.org/horde/rpc.php$1
        ProxyPassMatch ^/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml$
fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1
        ProxyPassMatch ^/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml$
fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1
        ProxyPassMatch ^/AutoDiscover/AutoDiscover.xml$
fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/html/horde/rpc.php$1
        ProxyTimeout 5400
        ProxyPassMatch ^/(.*\.php(/.*)?)$
fcgi://127.0.0.1:9001/var/www/mail.parts-unknown.org/$1

(the last ProxyPassMatch directive was already present). The error
message says its 'sharing' which I assume is okay. Is it?

> > 2) Figuring out a decently secure password that the Android app will
> > present correctly
> 
> ??
> Not sure what you mean with this

I have had recurring problems over the years with several devices that
passwords that work with real computers (for a rather broad
interpretation of 'real' that includes Windows) can't be entered on
Android devices. Sometimes I think the problem is with some special
(but ASCII) characters. Sometimes I can't pin it down at all. The
password just doesn't work and I assume that this is a bug in a
routine supplied with Android that many apps use. But the truth is, I
don't know, I haven't been a programmer since 1985, and I'm in no
position to actually figure out what's wrong.

Thanks!
-- 
David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>
See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the
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