MailShadowG Makes Gmail Into an Exchange Server - Page 2

marttin · 24-07-2008, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by fowljr

I always wondered what IMAP Idle was for.

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Exactly and if you have Gmail set up with Outlook using IMAP I still see no benefit in the system.

There is another GMAIL-IMAP-Idle solution. Home HERE, discussion thread HERE

As I understood it do not requires extra client - I haven't tested it yet

EDIT: Forgot to mention really wonderful solution (opensource) - Funambol

It do not uses Idle, but push-like technology. You can configure your pop3 or Imap accounts to sync mails, contacts, calendar

fowljr · 24-07-2008, 07:08 AM

Hi John, many thanks for the comprehensive descrition of the service. The advantage MailShadow has over IMAP idle is that it syncs Calendar & contact data as well.
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waveydavey · 24-07-2008, 08:51 AM

More interestingly for you and I Jim I think is this line:

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MailShadow for Google Apps allows one to run Gmail and Exchange concurrently, affording the user the time to get comfortable with the differences before switching, thereby easing the cross-universe transition.

The way I read it you could have both your work and personal email, with push functionality on the same device? I wonder how this would work with your contacts and calendar though. Does the Mailshadow client do all this?

Bassey · 24-07-2008, 09:09 AM

Sounds impressive. One of the (very minor) drawbacks has always been that you can only synch one mail account at a time - unless you use some mail agregation service to pull all your mail accounts into one box. And then you have the problem of having to fake the sent-from address.

waveydavey · 24-07-2008, 09:17 AM

Maybe John could provide us access to the Beta and we can give it a review?

jliccione · 24-07-2008, 05:31 PM

WaveyDavey,

Beta2 version of MailShadow for Google Apps only runs on Windows XP (Vista support soon) and requires that one is running Outlook (2003/2007) in cached Exchange mode. One can sign up with the program here: Cemaphore | MailShadow for Google Apps

Your download credentials will be emailed to your shortly after that.

John Liccione
Chief Technology Officer
Cemaphore Systems, Inc.

waveydavey · 24-07-2008, 07:39 PM

Any idea when the Vista implementation is coming? I'm an XP free zone now.

Also, can you just confirm that my assumption is correct? Could I use MailshadowG to run both my work email (exchange) and personal account (via Gmail) on the same device concurrently? How would calendar and contacts be affected? All bundled into the same container?

fowljr · 24-07-2008, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by waveydavey

More interestingly for you and I Jim I think is this line:

The way I read it you could have both your work and personal email, with push functionality on the same device? I wonder how this would work with your contacts and calendar though. Does the Mailshadow client do all this?

Now that sounds good. Could normal exchange sync be in the usual Outlook account and the GMAIL account in another created account?

spynappels · 17-09-2008, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by marttin

There is another GMAIL-IMAP-Idle solution. Home HERE, discussion thread HERE

Sorry to resurrect (sp?) an older thread, but I tried to install Darrens service/app and get an error message saying that the .NET CF on my device is older than that required by the app. I installed the .NET CF 3.5 from the Microsoft website and still I get the same message. Does anybody have an idea what I've missed?

The device is and XDA Orbit 2 running WM6.

If the .NET CF cn be downloaded as a CAB from anywhere else, it would make my life a lot easier as I do not normally have access to a Windows desktop...

Thanks for your help.

Stefan.