Yes, Google dropped support for Exchange Active Sync as of the end of January but stated that existing connections would continue to work. I too use Outlook.com now for contacts, calendars, and reminders, and find that it works very well with the iPhone using Exchange. Email is a different matter, though, since that's such a pain to switch. So for now I'm continuing to use Gmail via IMAP and have settled on the Ultimate Notifier app for push Email, while using Outlook.com for my contacts/calendars/reminders as I said. Actually, it seems to me that Gmail via IMAP is quite a bit more stable than Gmail via Exchange, but of course the lack of push Email is quite a price to pay.
Grant On 5/8/13, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Raul, > > You might just be correct about using exchange for gmail. I used to have my > gmail account set up as an exchange account, but for some time now kept > getting a message "Connection to the Server Failed". I had removed my > account since I am not really using it anyways, but on the last Today in > iOS > episode a caller asked for instruction on how to sync his Google contacts > as > well. One caller had provided instructions on how to set it up as a CardDAV > account, but another caller called in and explained that one could set it > up > as an Exchange account and provided the settings, m.google.com for the > server and google.com for the domain. Then of course your gmail email and > password. So I just tried to set up my account again using those settings > and while the account was created without a hitch, once I opened Mail and > went into my gmail Inbox I received the same "Connection to the Server > Failed" message. I guess this is another good reason why it is much simpler > to use Outlook.com. I consider Exchange and Exchange Active Sync to be much > better than IMAP which only does mail. > > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Raul A. Gallegos > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 4:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Using CardDAV - Was Re: caldav account to sync google contacts > > Hi, I didn't think that Google was accepting new Exchange accounts, thus > the need to use CardDav. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > Just witnessed an ant crawl under one of my keys. Don't worry, It's > under CTRL. - Sheldon Cooper > Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 > > On 5/8/2013 5:44 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: >> You can also set up your gmail account as an exchange account and then it >> will sync all of it, email, calendar and contacts. >> >> Use m.google.com as the server and google.com as the domain. >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf >> Of Christopher Chaltain >> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:32 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: caldav account to sync google contacts >> >> You need to use CardDav and not CalDav to sync your Google Contacts. I >> suspect this is just a typo. >> >> I'm not sure what's going on with your phone, I just followed the >> instructions I got on the web and it just worked. >> >> To set your default Contacts go into Settings -> Mail, Contacts, >> Calendars and jump down to the Contacts heading. Double tapping on the >> default account button will let you change it. >> >> I didn't have to specify that contacts is the service I want to use. I'm >> assuming that's because the CardDav protocol is being used. >> >> Make sure you give the account a recognizable name so you won't get it >> confused with your Google IMAP account in the Settings -> Mail, >> Contacts, Calendars page. >> >> For example, I see >> >> Google, Mail, Calendar, Notes >> Google, Contacts >> >> Note, I called both accounts Google, so I didn't follow my advice from >> above. The "Google, Contacts" is the CardDav account I added to sync my >> Google Contacts. >> >> On 05/08/2013 02:00 PM, anouk radix wrote: >>> Hi, I went googling and found out that i can sync my goglecontacts >>> through caldav. I followed the steps and added the account but now still >>> dont see the option to make this the standard contacts account and also >>> contacts are not selected as the items that are synced with htis >>> account. I logged into the google website but did not get any messages >>> there as if i should ahthorize it. >>> What might i be doing wrong? >>> Greetings, Anouk, >>> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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