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

[liverpoolfcfan]

Whereas i create the folders *SyncConfig* and the subfolder appointment&active=true&virtual=false&primary=Cale ndar, all my calendars shared and owned are synced wiht my iPhone. The problem is that i am notified for each event in each calendar.

That directive just tells the backend not to include multiple Calendars "virtually" into the main Calendar. However, by defauly iPxxx devices do not use this functionality for Contacts/Appointments - they sync all folders individually.

From the Release 52 release notes ...

Multi-Folder Support Added (for Apple iOS)
==========================================
Apple devices have the ability to handle multiple calendars and contact folders
natively. If an Apple device is detected, the additional coneacts and calendar
will not be "virtually included" into the default folders Contacts and Calendar
but will instead be sent across in their own folders.

If anyone is aware of any other devices that support this capability, please
post a message on the Support Requests Tracker so we can add a check for that
device to the code.

To Disable the breaking out of Calendars and Contact Groups on devices
----------------------------------------------------------------------
By default, if an Apple device is identified, Calendars and Contacts in custom
folders will be passed to the device in separate calendars/folders. This allows the
device user to select what they want to display. It potentially increases the load
on the backend to have to sync a lot of folders though. In order to prevent devices
synching many different folders, the administrator can disable the support of
multiple calendars and/or multiple contact folder using these two switches.
define('ZIMBRA_DISABLE_MULTI_CALENDARS',true);
define('ZIMBRA_DISABLE_MULTI_CONTACT_GROUPS',true) ;
Note that if either feature is disabled, the behaviour of the backend will return to
that which was in place before the breakout ability was added. i.e. all items will get
virtually included in the primary folder (assuming virtual support is turned on)

For your situation where you simply want to stop them synching - as you have already enabled SmartFolders - you simply add a hyphen/minus "-" character to the end of the shared Calendar name, and it will not be synched. So if you have a calendar called "John's calendar" - just rename it in your web client to be "John's calendar-" (note the added '-') and it will no longer sync to your phone. It will have no other affect on the functionality of the calendar in your desktop environment.

If you stillhave issues, please open a support request on the SourceForge web site.

[liverpoolfcfan]

With an acer iconia tab a700 (android 4.0.4), it is impossible to connect via active sync SSL whereas it is possible to connect to the z-push server via https.

As of yet I do not have any android 4 device to test with - but I believe that support for android 4 was only recently added to z-push-2. I do not know if they back-ported support to the z-push 1.5.x line. Check it out on the z-push site. Alternatively, you could test z-push 2 with the beta version of the zimbra backend from the sourceforge SVN - and of course report back on the sourceforge site to say how you got on.

[liverpoolfcfan]

[WARN] /usr/share/z-push/backend/zimbra/utils.php:385 Use of undefined constant MBSTRING_OVERLOAD - assumed 'MBSTRING_OVERLOAD' (8)

This comes from not having a definition in the config.php file. This was taken from the as12.1 branch

	// In case Function Overload is being detect for mbstring functions we set the define
	// to the overload level so that we can handle binary data propper...
	define('MBSTRING_OVERLOAD', (extension_loaded('mbstring') ? ini_get('mbstring.func_overload') : false));

and lots of:

[WARN] SyncObject->Check(): object from type SyncMail: parameter 'cc' contains an invalid email address ''. Address is removed.
[WARN] SyncObject->Check(): object from type SyncMail: parameter 'reply_to' contains an invalid email address ''. Address is removed.

These can be ignored at the moment. I will try to filter them out at the backend when I get a chance but functionality fixes will come before log entry cleanup.

[liverpoolfcfan]

Everything seems to work correctly without errors but when i try to open http://zpush.domain.local/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync it prompts me for user/pass and after entering
them I get the following message:

Firstly it could be apache prompting for your credentials - not z-push. But I would start by looking at line 250 of your config.php file as indicated by the error message to see if you have defined something incorrectly.

If you still have a problem, please open a support request on the SourceForge web site.

[valles]

Upgraded to Z-push 2.0.1 and added the line as suggested to config.php. Error is gone and everything is working fine with iPhone running iOS 5.

This comes from not having a definition in the config.php file. This was taken from the as12.1 branch

	// In case Function Overload is being detect for mbstring functions we set the define
	// to the overload level so that we can handle binary data propper...
	define('MBSTRING_OVERLOAD', (extension_loaded('mbstring') ? ini_get('mbstring.func_overload') : false));

[johnroberts]

Hi All,

After frustration for nearly two days I've decided to ask for help.

Server: Release 7.2.0_GA_2669.UBUNTU10_64 UBUNTU10_64 FOSS edition.
Z-Push version: SVN AS14 checkout
Z-Push Backend 53.1.as12.1

Zimbra is working well.

I initially had problems with setting up Z-Push and Z-Push Backend but these have almost been sorted.

Push is working between a test iPhone and sync is working well for Contacts and Calendar.

The problem is simply that I can not send email from the device. The message I have is similar to (translated) "Can not send email: An error was produced when trying to send the message".

I then checked the Z-push debug.txt file and what I find is the following:

08/12/12 14:58:09 [5244] O <ComposeMail:SendMail>
08/12/12 14:58:09 [5244] O <ComposeMail:Status>
08/12/12 14:58:09 [5244] O 102
08/12/12 14:58:09 [5244] O </ComposeMail:Status>
08/12/12 14:58:09 [5244] O </ComposeMail:SendMail>
08/12/12 14:58:09 [5244] GZip Results: Original Size 15 / Compress Size 35 byte(s) --> Send uncompressed data
08/12/12 14:58:11 [5244] Header Connection aborted :no
08/12/12 14:58:11 [5244] Header Connection status :0
08/12/12 14:58:13 [5244] Session run time duration :4.0830528736115
08/12/12 14:58:13 [5244] Body Connection aborted :no
08/12/12 14:58:13 [5244] Body Connection status :0
08/12/12 14:58:13 [5244] START Logoff
08/12/12 14:58:13 [5244] Over9M - MEMORY - REAL Now (9,961,472) Peak [12,058,624] - ALLOCATED Now (9,168,152) Peak [11,390,040] - END Logoff
08/12/12 14:58:13 [5244] end
08/12/12 14:58:13 [5244] --------

After searching for a while I think that after the <ComposeMail:SendMail> lines the email message content should show, but it doesn't.

In the Z-push config.php file 'IMAP_USE_IMAPMAIL' is set to 'true' as default, though I have tried to set this to 'false' too with no joy.

After reading some other replies I decided to go back to the standard releases of Z-Push 1.5.11-1362 and Backend 53.

I can now send email but does this mean that HTML mail is not available?

Thanks!

[lytledd]

In the Z-push config.php file 'IMAP_USE_IMAPMAIL' is set to 'true' as default, though I have tried to set this to 'false' too with no joy.

And this is why it isn't working. You need to provide a little more info. What instructions are you using? Do you have your z-push server on a separate machine? The below is my config:

   // The data providers that we are using (see configuration below)
    define('BACKEND_PROVIDER', "BackendZimbra");

    // ************************
    //  Zimbra Backend start
    // ************************

    define('ZIMBRA_URL', 'https://web.drdos.info');
    define('ZIMBRA_USER_DIR', 'zimbra_user');
    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);
    define('ZIMBRA_SMART_FOLDERS',false);
    define('ZIMBRA_RETRIES_ON_HOST_CONNECT_ERROR',5);

    //=== Optional Zimbra Specific Debug Information ===
    define('ZIMBRA_DEBUG',false);

Doug

[valles]

If you look at my earlier post #843, I used a combination of Rel 53 files and most recent files from repository, plus some minor modification documented and linked in this thread. Working quite nicely with Z-Push 2.0.1 on a separate and virtual machine runnning Ubtuntu 10.04.04.

Hi All,

After frustration for nearly two days I've decided to ask for help.

Server: Release 7.2.0_GA_2669.UBUNTU10_64 UBUNTU10_64 FOSS edition.
Z-Push version: SVN AS14 checkout
Z-Push Backend 53.1.as12.1

[johnroberts]

If you look at my earlier post #843, I used a combination of Rel 53 files and most recent files from repository, plus some minor modification documented and linked in this thread. Working quite nicely with Z-Push 2.0.1 on a separate and virtual machine runnning Ubtuntu 10.04.04.

Any chance you could zip the files up and PM me with them?

[aarat]

Looking for someone who can help me upgrade my current zimbra backend with z-push 2.0. I have release 53 running live on z-push 1.x. How do I migrate. What are the configuration changes in zpush 2.0 for zimbra backend.

Thanks in advance.