Tickets :: Comment on [#10395] Email push support in activesync

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Comment	> (1) I wouldn't call it "useless" without email, but I respect your > opinion. The more common use case, in my experience, is having > contacts/calendar/tasks available on your mobile device. > > (2) I don't know of a single modern device that does not have a > native (and in many cases, a choice of 3rd party) email applications. > Most of these supporting push. The functionality you have available > from these applications is FAR superior than what activesync, in > general, can provide. > > (3) ZPush != Horde_ActiveSync. I didn't remove email support, it was > never present in our code. Our library makes use of a refactored > version of the protocol level code in the zpush library...the code > that communicates with the device. All other code, including backend > polling and state management was written from the ground up. > > The zpush imap backend is based on the php imap functions. Horde 4 > does not (and can not) utilize the php imap extension, so the email > collection support would have to be mostly written from scratch as > well. Not to mention how horribly inefficient it would be to open and > maintain all those extra imap connections. > > Not saying it can't be done, but it's not likely to happen without > someone sponsoring the work. Leaving as "Accepted", but it's pretty > low on my list.
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