I just have to say: cool! I'll try this with my Sony Ericsson mobile phone some day, some of those also have support for AirSync!
\David On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 23:14 +0000, Dr J A Gow wrote: > Folks, > > I have placed the base code for an experimental pushmail server in SVN > at trunk/jagow-files/airmail. The push services are not yet fully > functional but it will currently exchange emails and attachments with a > set of folders on the server side. It is very much a proof-of-concept in > that it will not actually send the email anywhere except to folders and > files on the server side. > > It is under heavy development and may change regularly. If you want to > play with it remember it does not (yet) authenticate and is probably > insecure so run it behind a firewall and connect to it using wireless > networking (if your phone supports it) or use DTPT. > > To set it up, go root, then as root create the following directories > > ~/.airmail > ~/.airmail/folders > ~/.airmail/folders/Inbox > ~/.airmail/folders/Deleted > ~/.airmail/folders/Drafts > ~/.airmail/folders/Sent Items > > Then start airmail: > > python airmail.py > > If you then connect with the phone, you should be able to send email > from the phone and it will end up in a file ~/.airmail/mboxout. > > If you have MIME messages in standard format, copy it to the Inbox > folder on the server, one message per file. It will appear on the phone > on the next sync. > > You can also create new folders on the phone or on the server, move > messages/folders etc, and they will be mirrored on the other side. > > The push services need some changes to the wbxml patch as another > namespace needs to be added to handle the 'Ping' command. I will be > working on this next. > > This work has shed a lot of new light on how Airsync actually works and > will lead to significant improvements in sync-engine. Apart from a > working pushmail server, it would be easy to develop a server-side > Airsync handler that can handle all syncable items and sync them to a > form of database backend - then desktop clients could sync to the > server. A form of back-office groupware perhaps? > > Have fun. I'll commit the changes to sync-engine in a day or so now that > I have finished testing them and they seem to be stable. > > John. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > SynCE-Devel mailing list > SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
