[Dovecot] syncml with server push email

[Steve Roemen]

Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> On 27 Aug 2008 at 9:57, Steve Roemen wrote:
>
>   
>> I use Funambol to push email to clients, I'm using courier at the moment 
>> (that's going to change here in a few), but using it on dovecot 
>> shouldn't matter.  I ran into the time problem too, and found that I had 
>> to set the client's timezone preference and set it to force a conversion 
>> within the admin package.
>>     
>
> Interesting, was that on 7.x or previous, I experienced the tz problem on 6.5 
> and there was a lot of discussion on the funambol list about this issue, it 
> was determined to be a problem with the conversion from ical to vcal (and 
> also different versions of ical) by the server.  After about 8 months of that 
> I went to eGroupWare and haven't looked back as it offers more functionality 
> and it's syncml just works, but it doesn't seem to have support for email, so 
> I reinstalled funambol yesterday, but that brought up another problem. I am 
> using a windows mobile device that I want to do pushed email syncing with.  
> Because of numerous problems with the Funambol Windows Mobile client, I ended 
> up buying the Synthesis SyncML Pro client, however it comes up with a 10415 
> error on sync, which according to google means it doesn't support the same 
> email data type so no go there.
>
> https://core.forge.funambol.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=416&dsMessageId=15
> 947&orderBy=createDate&orderType=desc
>
> The connection works fine as I can see the traffic in the funambol logs and 
> the connection to the dovecot server on the same machine, so I'll probably 
> give a funambol client another try to see what happens, but having to use 2 
> different clients on the same pda phone to stay synced kinda sucks.
>
> My temporary goal is to use it to push email to a Nokia E61i since my 
> provider no longer offers BlackBerry Connect and then go back to a new 
> Windows Mobile Smartphone I have on order (O2 XDA Flame)
>
> Which reminds me, is it possible to use sieve in the mix so that I can 
> control what messages get forwarded to the phone rather than the whole kit 
> and kaboodle, so mail comes into dovecot, runs through sieve and the stuff 
> that the sieve rules allow, gets forwarded to the phone by funambol?
>
>   
The way i have my users setup for email, is i create a secondary account 
and for now, symlink that name to their actual account then in funambol 
use the secondary account. 
What I was thinking about doing, is if a user only wants emails from x 
or subject y, etc to have a sieve filter forward those items to the 
secondary account (and not make it a symlink).

I'm using funambol 6.5 for now.  We had the timezone problem syncing 
from thunderbird to funambol then to palm treo 750's.  setting the 
timezone info fixed them though. 

We are using this setup for blackberries as well, syncing contacts, 
calendar, mail with funambol then to outlook or thunderbird.