[Dovecot] horde sync status ?

[Patrick Domack]

Quoting Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>:

> Am 05.10.2012 14:00, schrieb Spyros Tsiolis:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I had a quick look at the horde site and noticed that
>> horde is being advertised as, let's say, "smartphone friendly".
>>
>> Does anyone know if the newest horde version can "talk" to
>> smart phones in regards to e-mails ?
>>
>> In other words, can a user owning a smartphone get his/her
>> e-mails on it apart from the webpage?
>
> a little off-topic at all, but however
>
> horde/imp is a webmail and accessing the mailserver via IMAP
> smart-phone freindly means it can be used on smartphones
> without scrolling to dead
>
> horde is not for having a layer between mail-client on the
> smartphone and the server - this makes pretty no sense
>
> each smartphone these days has a mail-client like K9 on
> android and can access imap/exchange directly - why should
> horde be involved here als additional layer?

Many reasons for this, I personally use it for contact and calender  
sync, and the new version of horde that is still in beta, can also be  
used for email sync too. This will simplify setup for many people,  
using autodiscovery feature of activesync.