Z-Push Zimbra Backend (Push Email, Contacts, Appointments & Tasks)

[liverpoolfcfan]

I had to roll back to 27, 28 breaks somewhere with MfE and I don't know where and how - debug.txt remains empty of errors and the phone says "System Error".

I am using a Nokia, and have revision 28 running with no new problems.

Did you do a "Full resync" on the phone ?

I have gotten the same symptoms as you over multiple revisions of the backend code, and have found that whenever I load a new copy of zimbra.php I need to restart the HTTP server, and then do a full resync of the client from the Mail for Exchange application on the phone. The System Error disappears after that.

Revision 28 works quite good...

Push functionality is working fine, but debug.txt is flooded realy fast about 100MB per 10 min, ...

On the amount of logging in debug.txt ...

Firstly, great job gnosbush on clearing up most of the "undefined" error messages. There is one line "debugLog(print_r($array,true));" at line 630 that was left uncommented which causes a huge amount of the logging. Just add // in front of the line to reduce it considerably.


I am finding that Always On is not usable from Nokia.

I used to get error messages with older revisions that would simply not allow Always On to work at all.

Now it works, and updates pretty quickly. However, I also see that at least the Nokia client constantly queries the backend for full Folder State updates. I thought there was some ping message that was supposed to trigger the requirement for a Folder State update. It certainly does not seem to be working this way from the Nokia. The result is that there is a huge amount of needless data passing back and forth - and battery life/data charges would be seriously impacted.

I do have a WM 6.5 phone too - so will fire it up and see if I see the same or different behaviour from that.

[barkas]

I didn't do that, and I'll try it again with 29 - until then my patched 27 works well.

I kinda lack the motivation to debug 28 only 2 days after I debugged and fixed 27 for me.

[gnosbush]

Besides me, is anyone using a Palm Pre/Piki with the Zimbra backend?

[powrrrplay]

i am using a pre.

btw, is anyone using 1.3RC3 with zimbrabackend? I can't get it working so am using RC2

[liverpoolfcfan]

btw, is anyone using 1.3RC3 with zimbrabackend? I can't get it working so am using RC2

I am using it with no problems.

What issues are yu having ?
Did you do a full restart on the web server after you loaded it ?

[andywhy]

Ok, now i've solved the debug.txt growing issue for me, by commenting out most of the debugLog in zimbra.php. The Problem with the recurring appointments is rather strange, when a recurring appointment is created inside zimbra webclient, it is synced to cellphone as non recurring. Debug.txt shows

04/15/10 11:58:01 [3002] /var/www/z-push/backend/zimbra.php:977 Undefined index:   (8)
04/15/10 11:58:01 [3002] /var/www/z-push/backend/zimbra.php:977 Trying to get property of non-object (8)
04/15/10 11:58:01 [3002] /var/www/z-push/backend/zimbra.php:1065 Undefined index:  at_attribute_a (8)

When i change the time of the apponitment, by moving the entry in webclients calendar, the appointment is synced to cellphone with the new time and the RECURRENCE

debug.txt shows:

04/15/10 11:59:50 [3002] Sync folder:Calendar
04/15/10 11:59:50 [3002] END GetMessageList { count = 9 }
04/15/10 11:59:50 [3002] END GetMessageList { count = 79 }
04/15/10 11:59:50 [3002] /var/www/z-push/backend/zimbra.php:977 Undefined index:   (8)
04/15/10 11:59:50 [3002] /var/www/z-push/backend/zimbra.php:977 Trying to get property of non-object (8)
04/15/10 11:59:50 [3002] /var/www/z-push/backend/zimbra.php:1061 Undefined index:  or_attribute_d (8)
04/15/10 11:59:50 [3002] /var/www/z-push/backend/zimbra.php:1065 Undefined index:  at_attribute_a (8)
04/15/10 11:59:50 [3002] end

Everytime the recurrence is synced from zimbra to cellphone, the error

04/15/10 11:59:50 [3002] /var/www/z-push/backend/zimbra.php:1061 Undefined index:  or_attribute_d (8)

is displayed in debug.txt, when it is not synced this line is missing... maybe this helps debuging

Creating an appointment with recurrence on cellphone is always synced as recurring appointment to zimbra in the first step...

Another strange behavior: debug.txt is flooded with

04/15/10 12:00:19 [3002] /var/www/z-push/backend/zimbra.php:589 Undefined index:  f (8)

Greetings,
Andy

[powrrrplay]

I am using it with no problems.

What issues are yu having ?
Did you do a full restart on the web server after you loaded it ?

Nothing happens. So I went to my browser and navigated to the sync domain.

w/RC2 i get a login id and password request and
w/RC3 i get a blank screen

[liverpoolfcfan]

Nothing happens. So I went to my browser and navigated to the sync domain.

w/RC2 i get a login id and password request and
w/RC3 i get a blank screen

Getting nothing at all suggests that there may be permissions issues preventing the web server reading all of the necessary files. Have you checked all the file permissions on the files/folders to be sure that they are the same for RC3 as they were for RC2 ?

And, double-check that have you made the updates to config.php again to specify BackendZimbra, and all the ZIMBRA options, and added the zimbra.php into the backend folder, etc.

[liverpoolfcfan]

I have just finished an implementation of the GetSearchResults function for the zimbra.php backend.

Please test, update, modify as required, and add to the the official build if you are happy with it.

Look for the GetSearchResults function

    function getSearchResults($searchquery) {
        return false;
    }

and replace it with the following code

    function GetSearchResults($searchquery, $searchrange) {

        debugLog( 'START getSearchResults: [' . $searchquery . ']' );
        debugLog( 'START getSearchResults: [' . $searchrange . ']' );

        $type = "all";  // Can be set to "account" to not return Locations/Resources

        $soap = '<SearchGalRequest xmlns="urn:zimbraAccount"  type="'.$type.'">
                  <name>' . $searchquery . '</name>
                 </SearchGalRequest>';

         $rows = array();
         
        $response = $this->SoapRequest($soap);
        if($response) {
          $array = $this->MakeXMLTree($response);
//                    debugLog(print_r($array,true));

          $items = $array['soap:Envelope'][0]['soap:Body'][0]['SearchGalResponse'][0]['cn'];
          $total = sizeof($items);
          
          debugLog( "Found [" . $total . "] matches" );
          
          for ($i=0;$i<$total;$i++) {

            $username = $items[$i]['fileAsStr'];
            $attributes = $items[$i]['a'];
            $attributeNames = $items[$i]['a_attribute_n'];

            $attributeCount = sizeof( $attributes);
//              debugLog( "Got [" . $attributeCount . "] attributes" );
            
            $firstname = "";
            $lastname = "";
            $fullname = "";
            $businessphone = "";
            $emailaddress = "";
              
            for ($j=0;$j<$attributeCount;$j++) {

              switch($attributeNames[$j]) {

                case 'firstName':
                  $firstname = $attributes[$j];
                  break;
                case 'lastName':
                  $lastname = $attributes[$j];
                  break;
                case 'fullName':
                  $fullname = $attributes[$j];
                  break;
                case 'email':
                  $emailaddress = $attributes[$j];
                  break;
                case 'workPhone':
                  $businessphone = $attributes[$j];
                  break;
                default:
              }

            }
            $rows[] = array(   "fullname"=>$fullname, 
                              "businessphone"=>$businessphone,
                              "username"=>$username,
                              "emailaddress"=>$emailaddress,
                              "firstname"=>$firstname,
                              "lastname"=>$lastname );
            }
//           debugLog(print_r($rows,true));

          }



          debugLog('END getSearchResults');
          
          return $rows;

    }

I have tested with a WM 6.5 phone and my Nokia E-71.

Note - I have not implemented paging for huge arrays of responses. I do not need them, as our GAL is short.

[DJ-Marcuzz]

Hi,

I'm currently using the 10-04-2010 build of the backend and must say im really happy with it!
I just have one little problem: It does not sync profile pictures from my phone to the server. The other way around did work once. I added pictures to all my contacts on the phone, they stayed for a day or 2 and now they are gone. Goes for the comments of a contact (HTC uses them to make them a favorite contact). they remove them selfs to.
(I'm using the z-push svn checkout of last weekend)

Is this a problem on my end, or is this not implemented yet (and if so, are there plans for it?)

Kind regards, and many thanks to the developers!
-Marcus