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Comment	>> Thanks for your update. But I'm not completely agree. >> >> Take Android as an example. In user's point of view he/she will be >> expected the setting of Active Sync is going to open a mail box with >> push function, calendar and contact are add-on. > > I use android, as do most of the devs, and have experienced no > confusion regarding this. > >> The Android OS itself is also present mail as primary application, >> after I create the Active Sync account, it'll open the Mail app and >> nothing displayed, if it connect to Horde Active Sync. > > The mail app will not automatically open after you create an EAS > account. The device is smart enough to know there is no mail folder, > since the server sends the folder tree to the device. > >> In my experience, the IPhone Mail App also works better with Active >> Sync protocol. > > In general, iOS devices have a better overall EAS implementation. I > agree. Though that doesn't have anything to do with the feature set > that is provided by the server. The EAS version we currently support > has a very limited feature set regarding mail when compared to a > native IMAP connected mail app. > >> It push very efficient (using z-push) and immediate > > I have found the zpush code to be very inefficient, though I guess > that is a matter of opinion. Without getting into specifics, this is > mostly due to the file-based state mechanism combined with the fact > that it uses c-client's highly inefficient imap functions. > >> alert me for new mail but if I connect to the mail server using IMAP, >> it push nothing, I need to reload the Mail App to "get" the new mail. > > Ok. Then the mail app on iOS is not as robust as other devices' > clients in this regard. > >> When I upgrade to horde 4, I expect the push mail is work but >> disappointedly, the function is not added. > > Well, like I said, if it is that important to you then you can > consider sponsoring the development. Otherwise, you will have to wait > until I have the time and motivation to write the activesync imap > client code. As stated before, we can not simply port zpush's > implementation.
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