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Exchange 2007 Push Mail w/ tons of extras! - NOW WITH POP3 AND IMAP ACCESS!

Ok, here's the deal. I've started an Exchange 2007 server that I've been offering for very low rates to the users of this forum. Specially the Hermes users, although other people have managed to find their way to the Hermes forum. Long story short, now that I have a Kaiser, I am re-posting the thread here...also the previous thread is getting VERY long and I hope to open up new information here, because new people just don't want to read 57 some odd pages .
If you want an account, I will require a $5 monthly donation to setup an account (this will be done through a subscription and paypal). I feel this is a fair amount for whoever wishes to donate. I will keep the old link for those that wish to donate above what I already ask for. After you submit the donation, I just need everyone to send me all their information in THE BELOW FORMAT:
First Name:
Last Name or Initial:
E-Mail address requested: [email protected]
Alias: [email protected]
Password:
It will include an alias and Outlook anywhere access (use Outlook with this account). With each account you can have an alias setup so that your recipents see your email address as anything you like! (although this has to be a working e-mail address, e.g. [email protected]) Also, for an extra $5 per account I can automatically forward your pop3 or IMAP e-mail to your new exchange account.
Go to http://getztek.com/paypal.html to make your donation. If and ONLY if that URL doesn't work for you (some have reported problems) use http://getztek.com/paypal2.html
The Outlook Web Address is now https://mail.getztek.com/owa/.
So if you like the service and feel that you can contribute, please send paypal payments to [email protected]. Anything helps, even if it is just $1.
If you do not know what Exchange 2007 is or offers, please google it before making any decisions about e-mailing me.
Also, please give me at least 24 hours to set up your accounts once I receive your information. Usually it will be far less than 24 hours. Thanks.
MOST IMPORTANT: do NOT e-mail me directly. All communications about Exchange 2007 must go through PM. If I receive an e-mail I will simply ignore it. This is done to simplify everything. When I have to spend extra time to figure out if you e-mailed me or PMed me, it just slows me down and e-mail's are easier to lose. Thanks for your cooperation.

Here's the setup info...I feel it's pretty thorough, but if anyone wants to add anything just let me know.
Setup on Outlook 2003/2007:
If you have an existing Outlook profile, follow steps 1-4..otherwise skip to the next section. These steps are for XP based machine. If you have Vista it will be similar but not exactly the same.
1. In Outlook, go to File --> Import and Export --> Export to a file --> Personal Folder File (.pst) --> click on the root folder in this window and choose “select subfolders” --> Click Next --> click browse and choose a location and file name for your .pst file. I suggest the desktop. --> Click Finish --> Click OK.
2. Let Outlook finish exporting your data. This make take anywhere from 1 minute to 30-45 minutes depending on how much data you have (e-mail’s, contacts, calendar).
3. On your XP Machine, go to Start, Control Panel.
a. Make sure your Control Panel is set to Classic View (Upper left hand corner of the window). If it says “switch to Category view” then you are good, but if it says “switch to classic view” then you should click it.
4. Double click on the Mail Icon within the Control Panel.
a. Click on “Show Profiles”
b. You should see your profiles here, most people will have one one and it will be called “Outlook.” THERE IS NO NEED TO REMOVE THIS!
c. Click “Add” --> Type in a Profile name (e.g. Exchange 2007) --> Then proceed to step 1 below.
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1. If using Outlook 2007, At the prompt where you choose manual. If using 2003, ignore this part and proceed to the next step.
a. add a email account and choose Microsoft Exchange.
2. Microsoft Exchange Server: server.getztek.com
3. Username: Full Name given at Signup.
4. then hit More Settings
5. then click on Connection
6. then click on "Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP" and then click on "Exchange Proxy Settings"
7. then type in mail.getztek.com for the URL
8. make sure SSL is checked
9. click on fast and slow networks, and choose basic authentication
10. Click “OK” twice
11. Then click Check Name
12. And the username/password box will pop open
13. Type in GETZTEK/User (this user is your e-mail address. For Example: your email address is [email protected], this is johndoe)
14. Type in Password
15. Server Name and User Name should now be underlined.
16. Congratulations! You are finished!
Setup on your PPC Device:
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1. Start -> Programs -> ActiveSync -> Menu Configure Server
a. Server address: mail.getztek.com
b. Tick on ssl connection
c. Username: name
d. Password: *******
e. Domain: getztek.com
f. Next -> Finish
g. Sync & Njoy
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Setup on MS Entourage
1. Account name = [email protected]
2. Name = Your Name Given at signup
3. Email = your email
4. Accountid= your ID before @getztek.com
5. Domain = getztek.com
6. Password = ****
7. Exchange server = mail.getztek.com
8. Check that server requires ssl....
9. Uncheck everything under advanced.
10. It should now work!
Outlook Web Access URL:
https://mail.getztek.com/owa
POP3 Access Through Any POP3 compatible program/phone/device
Incoming and outgoing mail server: mail.getztek.com
username: if e-mail is [email protected] then "user" is the username.
Outgoing server requires Authentication
Incoming server requires SSL (Port 995)
IMAP Access Through Any IMAP compatible program/phone/device
Incoming and outgoing mail server: mail.getztek.com
username: if e-mail is [email protected] then "user" is the username.
Outgoing server requires Authentication
Incoming server requires SSL (Port 993)

did anyone actually pay for this? i had started one cpl of years back and everyone wanted freebies, so i gave up. good luck.

I had a quick look through the thread in the Hermes forum and it seems like quite a popular service. Can I ask what kind of connection it's running from? Also, the alias thing interests me a lot and would make it so much more useful than the mail2web service I'm using right now. How does that work exactly?

I currently use DeniaL's service and it's been great. I started using it with my Wizard, then my Hermes, now my Kaiser. Very little downtime and worth the $5 I spent on having an alias that I can now use for my work emails.
I do like having push & html emails. Having the 'remote wipe' function from Outlook Web Access could come in handy if I ever lose my phone.

I too use his service it works like a charm for me.

Noiz said:
I had a quick look through the thread in the Hermes forum and it seems like quite a popular service. Can I ask what kind of connection it's running from? Also, the alias thing interests me a lot and would make it so much more useful than the mail2web service I'm using right now. How does that work exactly?
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It's running from a FAST dsl line in my office. The alias is basically a way of tricking people receiving e-mail from you. Basically the e-mail client will show whatever "alias" you want, but the actual e-mail gets sent through Exchange. So if you have a gmail account, and you want people to see and reply to said account...then you can just forward your gmail e-mail to the getztek account and it creates a full circle of PUSH mail with WHATEVER e-mail address you want.

DeniaL said:
It's running from a FAST dsl line in my office. The alias is basically a way of tricking people receiving e-mail from you. Basically the e-mail client will show whatever "alias" you want, but the actual e-mail gets sent through Exchange. So if you have a gmail account, and you want people to see and reply to said account...then you can just forward your gmail e-mail to the getztek account and it creates a full circle of PUSH mail with WHATEVER e-mail address you want.
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So it's just a reply-to setting, or something a bit more funky than that?

Noiz said:
So it's just a reply-to setting, or something a bit more funky than that?
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That's the basic jist. It's just a trick so that when people hit "Reply" it goes to your alias address instead of the getztek one. It's not super complicated.

Ah right. I was thinking it was something crazy where it somehow shows mail as coming from the alias, rather than just replying to it. I was wondering how such a setup would avoid spam filters and such.

Noiz said:
Ah right. I was thinking it was something crazy where it somehow shows mail as coming from the alias, rather than just replying to it. I was wondering how such a setup would avoid spam filters and such.
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It DOES show mail as coming from the alias...

DeniaL said:
It DOES show mail as coming from the alias...
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Really? OK, now I'm interested! I'll more than likely sign up to this tomorrow then, as I'm about to go home now.
Thanks!

online storage
Any comments on how much we can use up? 1 gb? thx

Noob question - so this will allow those of us who currently use BIS (through blackberry connect), to enjoy the full benefits of BES?

I'm on board with DeniaL and it works great on both my Treo 750 and my 8925.

mikeycollins13 said:
Any comments on how much we can use up? 1 gb? thx
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You get 1 GB of space. Up to 5 GB total. Each additionaly GB is just a flat, one time $10 charge.

hsj1906 said:
Noob question - so this will allow those of us who currently use BIS (through blackberry connect), to enjoy the full benefits of BES?
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I'm not super familiar with Blackberry's as I don't particularly like them. But if you can configure a blackberry with Exchange access (I think you can through your carrier's website), then you can use this service. It is true push, usually takes 3-5 seconds to receive the e-mail, obviously dependent on the speed of your wireless device.

I'm very interested in this - but was just wondering what sort of battery life people get while using the Push Email service?
I'm specifically wondering about anyone that's using 3G for their data settings, as ideally I'd like to have emails coming in and still be able to make/recieve calls!
Is the Kaisers battery able to last for a day (16-18 hours between charges) while recieving/sending Push emails on a 3G data signal with the odd occasional call?

Soulfish said:
I'm very interested in this - but was just wondering what sort of battery life people get while using the Push Email service?
I'm specifically wondering about anyone that's using 3G for their data settings, as ideally I'd like to have emails coming in and still be able to make/recieve calls!
Is the Kaisers battery able to last for a day (16-18 hours between charges) while recieving/sending Push emails on a 3G data signal with the odd occasional call?
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I've been using 3G on the tilt since i got it, and the battery life isn't great, but I get through the day with about 15% juice left around 8 or 9 pm. I usually unplug the phone around 8am. I use the device for lots of phone calls and I play a lot of monopoly while waiting for things, so I would think the battery should last 16-18 without those two factors.

Don't forget that discharging and charging the battery will condition it somewhat. These phones are pretty much brand new (especially the Tilt), so battery life will improve to a certain extent over time.

Offtopic - Good GMAIL POP WORKAROUND Solution

Hi,
I know some of you have suffered from disappearing mail when using WM to download mail from Gmail via POP and I believe there have been some work arounds (using recent: and/or setting your WM6 to not download the entire smg), but I've never been really satisfied with them. Well, since I have a TILT, thought I'd ask my fellow Tilt folks to try this out.
In any case, I tried this workaround and it seems to be working. If someone would be nice enough to double check my steps to see if this works for you, this just might solve the whole GMail/POP/WM6 mishaps.
BTW, as a discalimer, I don't know if someone's come up with this type of solution!
Ok, we'll need two Gmail accounts, one that is your PRIMARY-GMAIL account and then you have your SECONDARY-GMAIL account (bear with me, it'll become clear why in a bit).
Typically, your PRIMARY-GMAIL is the account you receive all of your mail and from which reply from.
Your SECONDARY-GMAIL account (either create one or use one that you already have) is the account from which you'll download mail from with your Windows Mobile device.
Setup your PRIMARY-GMAIL account to "forward a copy of your mail" to your SECONDARY-GMAIL account and "keep Gmail's copy in the inbox"
Enable POP on your SECONDARY-GMAIL account.
On your Windows Mobile device, create a new email account and manually configure to download mail from your SECONDARY-GMAIL account and set it up to download 50kb.
On your Windows Mobile device, set up the OUTGOING server to NOT use the same credentials and then put in the credentials of your PRIMARY-GMAIL account.
That's it! When you receive email to your PRIMARY-GMAIL account, it's forwarded to your SECONDARY-GMAIL account. Your WM device will download mail from this Gmail account. When you reply from your WM device, your WM device will use the credentials of your PRIMARY-GMAIL account and because of the way GMail's interface works, it uses your PRIMARY-GMAIL account as the SENT FROM. Thus to the rest of the world, you downloaded/received it off your PRIMARY-GMAIL account but to you, it's downloaded from your SECONDARY-GMAIL account, but replied/sent from your PRIMARY-GMAIL account. You should be able to download/receive the entire message now without fear of email disappearing from your PRIMARY-GMAIL account.
Sorry, it might sound confusing and convoluted, but this seems to be working for me. No more worries of disappearing messages, etc etc. Would anyone else mind testing this out?
Thoughts?
Thanks!

pretty good workaround. I just use IMAP however.

Um yeah, why use POP when IMAP works now? Pop SUCKS!

Lowest power method to use Google Voice SMS?

So far as I can tell in my 2 weeks of owning a G1, the data sync is the biggest power hog.
So I've disabled contact/calendar/mail sync, and check my mail via browser, only when I want to (I'm usually near a full computer anyway).
But, for on-the-go I wanted to use the SMS service from Google Voice and NOT have it forward to my normal (Tmobile SMS), so that I don't have to pay the extra $10/month for SMS.
But I believe that means I need to either poll my Gmail for the SMS messages there (they get forwarded to gmail), or, enable some sort of data sync.
Was looking for suggestions, guessing folks smarter than I have got this figured out.
again, here are the goals:
- Do not use actual Tmobile SMS (just Google Voice SMS, NOT forwarded to TMo SMS)
- minimize power drain (assumed to come from data sync)
thanks for any suggestions!
Mike

goto google.com/voice and goto settings under "Phones" there should be a option to disable forwarding to the phones you have registered to that GV account (aka tmo number)

J.a.M said:
goto google.com/voice and goto settings under "Phones" there should be a option to disable forwarding to the phones you have registered to that GV account (aka tmo number)
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yep.. got that.. just trying to understand the ways the mail version of the SMS can get to me... so far, I'm thinking the "push" (IMAP IDLE) is generally better for the battery vs polling an IMAP server? (still learning my way around)
thanks,
Mike

Skype

Ive noticed that they have released a skype app for some phones such as the new desire, but not for the nexus one. If anyone has the apk for the new version of skype (not the beta that was around a year ago) could they please upload it to the board or email it to me? thank you very much if you can help.
My email is iamwhoamnot at gmail

What's wrong with Fring? It even supports video just fine.

Jack_R1 said:
What's wrong with Fring? It even supports video just fine.
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yeah, fring lets you sign into your skype account.

A few things are wrong with fring and nimbuzz and other clients, mostly because of their nature of being a proxy service rather than a true P2P app.
1. They store your credentials - you need to give fring and nimbuzz your user name and password to many services and trust them not to abuse it. You eventually just log in with their account password - and they connect to all other accounts you have using their stored details.
2. Proxy service - (a) Latency and (b) bad security.
(a) Since you don't directly call the other party you actually send your voice data to the fring servers which then forward it to the other person's skype - so fring in effect act as a middle man. this introduces latencies - as the data takes a longer route to get to the other side.
(b) Also it opens the opportunity for them to eavesdrop the conversation. It works not only for skype but also for all other types of accounts - like gtalk, fb chat, icq, aim - they have all your messages and then forward them.
These 2 reasons are why i can't wait for true p2p apps for all my chatting and voice needs - privacy and performance.

Jack_R1 said:
What's wrong with Fring?
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-Its not Skype
-Many people including myself dislike Frings cheesy interface.
But as you righly say, it will do the job until such time as Skype put out a build of their own.

[Q] PBXes / Google Voice trunk settings?

I have sipdroid, a pbxes account, and a verified Google voice phone number.
I keep getting emails from PBXes saying that my trunk has been offline for over 10 minues and I have yet to be able to send or receive a call.
I have to have some settings wrong.
I setup a new SIP trunk with the following
Name: GTalk
Language: English
dtmfmode: auto
audio bypass: no
sendrpid: no
username (my google email)
password (my google password)
SIP server: I have tried google.com, gmail.com, sip.voice.google.com
domain:
register: yes (inbound and outbound)
Every other box on the page is blank.
Can anyone help with this? voip is new to me so I'm still learning here.

Got it working, nevermind on this.

would you mind giving instruction as to what you did to get it working? I would apprecieate it... I deleted my account from pbxes to start fresh install without having to manually enter in everything for gtalk trunk and it will not allow me to auto create anymore so im stuck and cant figure it out and ive read the wiki and google searched on how to set up gtalk trunks and such but I am unable to get it to work.
Thanks
-James

I second this. I've been trying to set this up too and I'm not quite sure how.

This is the exact information I'm looking for, too (a Google search just brought me to this page). I'm in the same boat as c-pimp (deleted PBxes account to start over, then it wouldn't let me auto-create again). I'd appreciate any help with this. Thanks.

http://gurnted.wordpress.com/guides/updated-guide-from-xda/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=548405
http://www2.pbxes.com/forum/thread.php?threadid=1289421168&sid=95d0ea0ea8bacb5aad6266b7efa8b179
http://www.websenselogic.com/2010/0...mingoutgoing-calls-for-free-voip-mobile-data/
http://androidforums.com/android-ap...s-org-googlevoice-free-n-america-calling.html
Pickngrin said:
This is the exact information I'm looking for, too (a Google search just brought me to this page).
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Maybe you should have googled better I'm sure I got it set up from one of those guides

Thanks. I think I've got the settings correct now, and at last I see the red dot on the top of the Sipdroid screen. However, when I attempt to initiate a call, it says "call in progress" then instantly goes to "call ended". Any ideas?

I thought pbxes.org stop creating the new free accounts until may
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Yeah, I googled good enough, pbxes made it not work unless you have a paid account or if you already had one before...
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Google better, because I did it with a free account on a new signup.

ArthurJGuy said:
Google better, because I did it with a free account on a new signup.
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So, your MO is to post a thread asking how to do something, figure it out yourself, and then be a **** about it when people ask the same question you did in the OP?
Good luck with that. I hope it takes you far in life.

that was a pretty funny little reply though you got to admit.