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

[liverpoolfcfan]

Hi .. just a quick follow-up to my post of some months ago .. Has anybody else had the experience of seeing multiple threads connected at once - thought I saw somebody else mention it -- but for the life of me I can't find it now? I see at least 3 processes attempting to sync to my iphone (i've seen this behaviour on Ubuntu 8.0.4LTS (self signed cert), zcs-6.0.5_GA_2213.UBUNTU8.20100202225756 ) and also on 8.0.4LTS w/ zcs-6.0.10 (iPod touch gen 1 + iPhone - 3gs - ios4) .. I really don't know how to move forward - any suggstions would be welcome.

TIA.

I do not have any iPhones - so cannot test.

Do the processes stay around - or is it a short term burst ?

I have seen that Andriod causes similar behaviour when it does an initial sync - or starts a new sync cycle after an email or contacts change has broken the ping cycle.

It seems like WM and Nokia are well behaved - and issue a Hierarchy check first, followed by a folder check, etc. They make 3 connections to the server ... serially.

Andriod on the other hand fires off all three requests simultaneously. It seems that if the hierarchy check detects a change, it will spawn off a new session that will result in 2 sets of pings running against the server for the phone.

I have not nailed down the exact conditions that cause it - but usually after a full ping cycle, everything settles down, and you get just one connection again.

If you can elaborate on the iPhone behaviour it would be useful.

[Felipe Nolasco]

Actually I can not receive attachments, using the Zimbra backend.
I need this to work properly.
Have a release date?

[samgreco]

I've installed Z-Push in a VM and I am almost there, but am having an issue. If I navigate to the page via a web browser, I am given a login prompt. I login and am then redirected to an HTTP 500 page. No indication of successful or unsuccessful login.

I get the following in the Apache error log:

[Fri Feb 11 11:00:19 2011] [error] [client 192.168.0.124] PHP Notice:  Use of undefined constant \xe2\x80\x9cBackendZimbra\xe2\x80\x9d - assumed '\xe2\x80\x9cBackendZimbra\xe2\x80\x9d' in /var/www/z-push/config.php on line 85
[Fri Feb 11 11:00:30 2011] [error] [client 192.168.0.124] PHP Notice:  Use of undefined constant \xe2\x80\x9cBackendZimbra\xe2\x80\x9d - assumed '\xe2\x80\x9cBackendZimbra\xe2\x80\x9d' in /var/www/z-push/config.php on line 85
[Fri Feb 11 11:00:30 2011] [error] [client 192.168.0.124] PHP Fatal error:  Class '\xe2\x80\x9cBackendZimbra\xe2\x80\x9d' not found in /var/www/z-push/index.php on line 146

This is my config.php Zimbra section:

    $BACKEND_PROVIDER = “BackendZimbra”;

       define('ZIMBRA_URL', 'http://mail.domain.com');
       define('ZIMBRA_USER_DIR', 'zimbra');
       define('ZIMBRA_SYNC_CONTACT_PICTURES', true);
       define('ZIMBRA_VIRTUAL_CONTACTS',true);
       define('ZIMBRA_VIRTUAL_APPOINTMENTS',true);
       define('ZIMBRA_VIRTUAL_TASKS',true);
       define('ZIMBRA_IGNORE_EMAILED_CONTACTS',true);
       define('ZIMBRA_HTML',true);
       define('ZIMBRA_ENFORCE_VALID_EMAIL',true);

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[liverpoolfcfan]

I get the following in the Apache error log:

[Fri Feb 11 11:00:19 2011] [error] [client 192.168.0.124] PHP Notice:  Use of undefined constant \xe2\x80\x9cBackendZimbra\xe2\x80\x9d - assumed '\xe2\x80\x9cBackendZimbra\xe2\x80\x9d' in /var/www/z-push/config.php on line 85

This is my config.php Zimbra section:

    $BACKEND_PROVIDER = “BackendZimbra”;

Clue is in the error message.

It does not like the fancy quote marks you put around BackendZimbra

Use normal double-quotes

    $BACKEND_PROVIDER = "BackendZimbra";

[samgreco]

a) Amazingly fast
b) Nailed it

Now on to the actual phones. Thanks!

[achy]

Is the GAL supposed to work with z-push? When i try and search for users, it returns "No Name" but still returns the correct number of users that the search would normally yield (if i have 3 pauls in the GAL it will return 3 No Names)

Did you resolve this problem? I have a same. Does anybody knows how to resolve this?
Thanks

[liverpoolfcfan]

Did you resolve this problem? I have a same. Does anybody knows how to resolve this?
Thanks

I found this issue recently, and resolved it. It should be fixed in the next release (version 49)

[achy]

I found this issue recently, and resolved it. It should be fixed in the next release (version 49)

Thank you very much

[achy]

I found this issue recently, and resolved it. It should be fixed in the next release (version 49)

I'm using version 48 on ubuntu 10.10 on separate server than Zimbra and Microsoft device emulator V2 client (just for testing). When include z_RTF.php and put z_RTF.ph in .../z-push/include/ emulator won't display GAL data at all "The search could not be completed. Please try again later". When remove z_RTF.php from .../z-push/include/ I'm getting "no name" in GAL results, but notes in calendar won't decode on zimbra webmail (it is expected).
I'm sending this just for better explanation of this issue.

Thanks

[liverpoolfcfan]

I'm using version 48 on ubuntu 10.10 on separate server than Zimbra and Microsoft device emulator V2 client (just for testing). When include z_RTF.php and put z_RTF.ph in .../z-push/include/ emulator won't display GAL data at all "The search could not be completed. Please try again later". When remove z_RTF.php from .../z-push/include/ I'm getting "no name" in GAL results, but notes in calendar won't decode on zimbra webmail (it is expected).
I'm sending this just for better explanation of this issue.

Thanks

Sounds weird. I cannot think of any reason the two would be connected. The fis for the search has nothing to do with the include file. It was originally not supported by the z-push release we began with - and was only implemented in the backend to work with the as12 branch of the z-push code. Just last week, I discovered the Search stuff was all fully implemented in zimbra 1.4.x/1.5 so I made the changes needed to match up the fields and the returns for those versions.