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Windows Mobile 5.0 Email Bug

I would like to kno if anyone in xda was able to address the problem with the wm5 client address on a forum i read about, i beleive i am havin the same problems
"the Pocket tv team"
we found a bug with the Windows Mobile Email client that prevents using
certain SMTP servers.
i suspect the bug is general to all Windows Mobile devices including Pocket
PCs, but we only tested it and confirmed it on the Motorola Q (a Windows
Mobile 5.0 Smartphone).
the bug prevents using some login names on SMTP servers (i.e. outgoing
email) that require a user name DIFFERENT from the POP3 ou IMAP4 server
(i.e. incoming email) and when the login name is something like
'[email protected]' i.e. when the login name contains an '@' sign.
this type of server login name is common on servers that use shared domains
on a single IP address, and this is a common case. in this case, since
there may be several users with the same name under different domains (on
the same server), the correct user is identified by using the domain name
with the '@' sign.
in fact i found that bug by trying to configure the Motorola Q to use one of
our email servers to send my email.
what happens is that the Smartphone email client removes the @ sign and
everything that follows it when loging to the SMTP server - we confirmed
that by looking in real time in the log files produced by our SMTP server.
i am not aware of any workaround.
the problem does not happen when the SMTP server uses the same login name as
the POP3 or IMAP4 server (in that case, the login name can have an "@" sign,
and it is handled correctly). the problem only happens when the SMTP server
uses a different login, and that this different login has an "@" sign.
once again, MSFT was apparently trying to be "smart" i.e. they assumed that
the @domain part in the login name of the SMPT server was entered by mistake
by the user, but being too smart is not always a good thing.
note that using fully-qualified user-name that include a mandatory @domain
part is very common and even google's gmail uses this, as you can see in the
'Account Name' section of
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=13287 .
if you use gmail to both receive and send email, it will work, because the
POP3 and SMTP servers use the same login. but if you want to use gmail just
to send (i.e. SMTP), and use another server to receive (i.e. POP3 or IMAP4),
then it won't work, because of that bug.
this is a pretty serious problem.
also, the IMAP4 client configuration does not allow to specify the remote
directory (in the user's account on the IMAP4 server) where the IMAP folders
are located, which may be different from the default login directory. This
renders IMAP4 completely un-usable in some cases.
Of course those bugs are not new to Windows Mobile 5.0. It's just a shame
that MSFT never fixed them.
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Download Email from exchange webmail

Dear all,
My company is running exchange server 2003. But our IT department is [email protected] in the @ss. They refused to setup the activesync for us (push mail). Instead we were asked to check email through webmail.
I wonder if there's a way to download those emails either using pc outlook or pocket outlook? the address for the webmail is something like this:
http://www.badasscompany.com/exchange/
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Notilad

Dont need setting up
Are you running sbs 2003?
if so all you need is the server ip address used for VPN.
start, messaging,menu,options or tools.
outlook email, then follow the wizard, un tick ssl on 1st page, enter ip address of your OWA if not an ip address use ping in cmd e.g ping google.com and it will return you an ip.
i have mine setup with NO server setting up required

Syncing and Exchange Server

Since I've had this phone I've failed to sync with the Sync Centre. It just results in errors every time.
However, because I will be syncing everything that will be on my exchange server, how can I set up this exchange server on the X1? I don't mean the email address only, I need it to connect to my exchange calender, contacts, mail - everything.

I sync to my exchange server via mail2web with no problems - keep in mind if you are syncing to a pc as well you need to select only one location for calendar & contacts.

Isn't it possible to put in the exchange server details directly into teh phone without using 3rd party software?
Is it true that vodafone have removed the exchange feature from their handset?

I'm getting this error.. 0x85010014

Jammy2 said:
Isn't it possible to put in the exchange server details directly into teh phone without using 3rd party software?
Is it true that vodafone have removed the exchange feature from their handset?
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you don't need 3rd party to set up exchange activesync, it's out of the box.

Jammy2 said:
I'm getting this error.. 0x85010014
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this is relating to the SSL. Either you have setup an activesync w/o SSL connection, or your PDA clock might be wrong that makes the SSL certificate invalid.
That's assuming your exchange server side is okay.

I've just discovered that everything part from mail will sync if I don't specify my exchange in Vista. When I do that's where the errors show up.
As for exchange on the phone, I will get "network waiting" when I disable SSL. This actually appears to be an issue with many WM devices. What do you mean when you say my clock might be wrong?

The simple Version:
Authentication inside of Active Directory runs over "Tickets" for every User. If the clocks between 2 Ressources are too tifferent, the Ticket becomes invalid, cause the time is an important component of the encryption.
The savest way is to let the phone sync its clock with the exchange server - after Active Sync configuration
For doing this you only need working SSL-encrypted "Outlook Web Access" and your Exchange account have to be "Active Sync"-enabled (an admin has to do this).
Windows Mobile shows you all information yout need to set Active Sync up.

Ah, so the exchange server needs to be active sync enabled?
At the moment I am syncing everything from outlook on my pc, not directly to the server as the device was designed to do

Mine works with my Exchange 2007 server without a problem, out of the box. I just entered my server address, my domain username and password.
Are you sure the server is set up correctly. The exchange server has to have OMA (Outlook Mobile Access) set up. Are there any other devices syncing with the server correctly? Is port 443 open?
Something to note I had to install the security certificate of the server on my phone before it could sync.

I use mine with an Exchange 2007 too. After installing the server
all the necessary features are turned on automatically:
- OWA (Outlook Web Access - website)
- OMA
- Active Sync user role for every account
The OWA-website has to be accessible for public. And the server certificate (for SSL) has to be installed if it is selfsigned
(it is if your browser shows a certificate warning on computers
outside of the company network). Copy it from the browser to
your phone and (double)click it for install. Alternativly ask your network administrator for help.
If the cert is bought from an official worldwide trusted cert
seller like thawte or verizon this should not be neccessary.

Exchange Sync Problem

Hi @ll,
we have a bad problem with our HTC mini clients after active sync settings was change for a couple of hours to personal client certificate. Normally and this settings was change back to our exchange server, the mobile clients sync with basic authentication domain username, domain password and domain name + server adress like the exchange owa: for example: https://webmail.domain.com.
Problem what we know have is, that the mobile client couldn't go back to that basic settings. They coulnd't sync anymore. I can delet the mobile outlook account on the device and reconfigured it, it works. But by more than 250 devices is that a realy bad option. Is there a chance or function to delete a special file or something like a sync cache to get that fixed? thanks to all idears.

You don't tell what version of exchange server use.
If your organization use 2007/2010 Exchange servers it will be the best solution to configure autodiscover service.By the way you should already configured that solution.
After configure autodiscover(it should be running by default) and certificates users should only remove Exchanage sync and reconfigure with typing their user name and passwords.
The key point is to make autodiscover working properly.
What type of firewall you are using ?

Help with Exchange

I need help getting email from my Exchange Server at work onto my Nexus S.
We have Exchange Server 2003 SP 2. When I try to set it up, it says "Unable to connect to server." I have tried every configuration known to man on my end. I'm positive now the problem lies on the Exchange Server side.
I asked our Exchange admin and he said he would set it up however was needed to let me get my mail on my Nexus, and to just let him know what changes to make. Unfortunately, I haven't a clue what to tell him!
Please advise, and thanks in advance.
Matt

The email address is your default Exchange address ([email protected] or whatever your policy is). Your username is your internal domain prefix backslash your username (domain\jsmith) your password is your regular Windows password.
The server address is your externally accessible Outlook Web Access URL (owa.company.com).
I tell it to use SSL but not accept any old cert. Depends if your OWA box has a real SSL or a homemade one.
This is how our Exchange 2003 works, anyway.

Well it turns out this solved our problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817379
Apparently a known issue with Exchange ActiveSync 2003.