[TriLUG] exchange replacement

[Brian Cottingham]

Google accounts can sync with the iPhone using fake-Exchange. Visiting
m.google.com/sync will give you instructions for configuring an ordinary
Google or Google Apps account.

Using Google's fake-Exchange service will put your Google Calendar
appointments right into your iPhone calendar program, where offline
appointments work. It'll also puts your mail into the "Mail" app.

The iPhone doesn't have a native Tasks app, and AFAIK you can't sync the
native Notes app with anything but iTunes. In the App Store is an app called
"Todo" that can sync with Remember the Milk and ToodleDo for web-based
desktop access. Each of those services has iPhone apps, too. I don't know if
Google has an API for their todo list; I haven't heard of one, nor have I
seen any programs sync with it.

-Brian


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Clay Stuckey <claystuckey at gmail.com>wrote:

> response to multiple comments:
> the iphone is only online if you have wifi or cellular reception. One of my
> contracts has me in a building where I have no wifi and the cell reception
> is quite sketchy. This give me an absolute requirement of offline
> appointment notifications.
>
> the cloud-based suggestion is cool. much of my work for clients is
> cloud-based. I may migrate my buisness operations there at some point.
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Glenn Hennessee <
> glenn.hennessee at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Look at Zarafa, http://www.zarafa.com/
> > It touts itself as an exchange replacement that sits on top of your
> > existing Linux mailserver. There are commercial versions as well as a
> > community version. I have never used it but it is part of the upcoming
> > Fedora 13, http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7765/1.html
> >
> > glenn
> >
> >
> >
> > Clay Stuckey wrote:
> >
> >> OK, I feel dirty even thinking about exchange. I have a 1-person
> >> consulting
> >> business. I have been using imap for my mail needs to be able to access
> my
> >> information from multiple places. I have been tempted lately to stand up
> >> an
> >> exchange server to have imap-like access to my information but to extend
> >> coverage to notes, tasks and calendering. I have an iphone and
> >> predominately
> >> use XP as my desktop. Anyone know if a Linux-based solution that will
> >> provide email/cal/task/notes to iphone and XP? I have thought of zimbra
> >> but
> >> I think it is just web-based. I want to have my iphone notify me of
> >> upcoming
> >> appointments without having to be online.
> >>
> >> Clay
> >>
> >>
> >
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