Difference between revisions of "Z-Push with Zimbra and HTML Support"

[http://z-push.sourceforge.net/soswp/ Z-Push] is an open source [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActiveSync Active Sync] solution, primarily designed to work with [http://www.zarafa.com/ Zarafa], it will work must email solutions directly (via [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol IMAP]), and can also use 3rd party interfaces (known by Z-Push as backends) in order to access email data. Obviously Active Sync is about more than just email, and Z-Push aims to sync all those other data types (contacts, calendar, tasks etc).

Z-Push v1 wasn't intended to support emails with HTML content, that's expected in v2 (currently in beta), however there is an Active Sync 12.1 branch of Z-Push v1 that can be used (officially its not of a production standard, but it does work very well, so well some have commented that its better than the inbuilt AS support available in [http://www.zimbra.com/products/zimbra-collaboration-suite.html Zimbra Network Edition]).

In order to get fuller integration between Zimbra and Z-Push requires the use of a specific Zimbra backend, which is currently written/championed by a Zimbra forum member who goes by the name of liverpoolfcfan, who deservers a lot of respect and praise for all his efforts.  In order to support HTML email a special version of the backend has been written.

All the information for the procedure below was gleamed from http://www.zimbra.com/forums/mobility/26536-z-push-zimbra-backend-push-email-contacts-appointments-tasks.html, its a mammoth thread, but you can search just that thread.  If you run into problems, search it, it's unlikely you've found a new problem, but in case you have, you can always post a question there.