Some new Exchange data from my experiments
I had some time to work on this over the weekend.
My Exchange account seems to setup ok, i.e no errors, but if I go into the account and hit refresh (to force a sync) I get the "cannot connect to server" message. I left my phone this way for a couple of days and to my surprise it appears that it synced a few messages. But after that, no matter what I did, it would fail with the same message. I tried every security option, etc, it made no difference.
I then decided that I could live with IMAP, so instead of Exchange (in the manual setup) I selected IMAP. I had the exact same issue.
Then I did something I never thought I would ever do again, I selected POP3, and it does connect and pull down the emails. I hate POP3 and several years ago swore I'd never touch it again, but it is the only way I can get my email from Exchange on my Droid X using the native client...
I have read dozens of other forums (since this is NOT specific to the GJ or Liberty ROMS, but seems to affect the native client on other phones as well.) I have tried different settings on the Exchange server (disabled SSL, and several other things) but nothing worked.
One person said their IT department determined it was a hard coded timeout in the native client that was too short, but since Google gave no user access to this setting, they said it could not be fixed. This seems plausible, as when I do get the error, it is almost instant. I have also heard people say that on their corporate WIFI, this issue does not exist. Again, the difference there would seem to be bandwidth/latency and not client/server settings. Probably a ton of code their that would need to be reverse engineered...but since Liberty is compiled from the source code of the native client, can we see if there is such a timeout that could be tweaked?
Sorry for the long post...
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