d0ugie
29th July 2009, 06:31 PM
I've been getting by with Flexmail with its imap idle to email using my server but I'd like to see if it's possible to get Apache or any httpd working I suppose in conjunction with an MTA like postfix and an IMAP server like dovecot to trick a WinMo phone into thinking it's getting its mail fed to it by a Linux machine (over https) in a way it can understand. Might save me some juice but I'm just up for a challenge and could use your help. Even if just for receiving mail...
So, might one be able to set up apache to have some kind of an ActiveSync directory to get the phone interacting with it when you try to add the host on the phone?
If that's doable, how could one configure the rest of server's mail daemons to work in a way that's Microsoft-esque as far as the phone's concerned? Or are other daemons not even involved, just httpd?
Lastly, and I've spent hours (but a long time ago) trying to do this with no success but with an actual Exchange server, is it possible, regardless of this linux stuff, to tweak a winmo phone not to care about domain/host certificate validation and just sync away over https (I believe activesync only does push over https, not http, though regular non push works over http)? All I could find were obsolete cert tricks that worked with wm5.
How's that for a challenge!
I know my way around Linux and Apache and if we could figure this one out (maybe Xandros (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros)?), well, wouldn't that be badass?
So, might one be able to set up apache to have some kind of an ActiveSync directory to get the phone interacting with it when you try to add the host on the phone?
If that's doable, how could one configure the rest of server's mail daemons to work in a way that's Microsoft-esque as far as the phone's concerned? Or are other daemons not even involved, just httpd?
Lastly, and I've spent hours (but a long time ago) trying to do this with no success but with an actual Exchange server, is it possible, regardless of this linux stuff, to tweak a winmo phone not to care about domain/host certificate validation and just sync away over https (I believe activesync only does push over https, not http, though regular non push works over http)? All I could find were obsolete cert tricks that worked with wm5.
How's that for a challenge!
I know my way around Linux and Apache and if we could figure this one out (maybe Xandros (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros)?), well, wouldn't that be badass?