On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 15:55 -0800, Todd Conley wrote: > I just started reading about openmoko today and am very excited. I > manage 1200+ windows mobile phones for a corporation and have always > wanted to be able to do so much with these devices. Are there any > current open-source projects out there that will allow connections to > exchange servers? I just implimented 500 x of the palm 700w , but the > only good thing about that phone is how it handles exchange.
If you're looking for something that would allow the device to interact with an MS Exchange Server, Novell's evolution Exchange connector works pretty well. The entire system itself might be too big to put onto the Neo, but I'm sure it should be possible to rip out just the functionality and create an openmoko connector for the PIM client on the phone. If you're just interested in push email technology, there are a couple of open standards-based solution. One that should exist in most open source IMAP servers is IMAP IDLE <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2177> (discussed here: http://www.isode.com/whitepapers/imap-idle.html). This approach tries to leave an open connection / session with the server for the server to send notifications to the IMAP client. Instead of polling the server for new messages, an IMAP NOOP command can be sent at much longer intervals just to keep the connection from timing out. Another approach is Push-IMAP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push-IMAP> which is a real push email solution but is still in Draft. There's one commercial entity that has already implemented the Draft spec <http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3164841120.html> Funambol <http://www.funambol.com/opensource/> is yet another open source solution, is written in Java and is based on the Open Mobile Alliance Data Synchronization and Device Management protocols. -- Richi Plana _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
