This is a discussion on Will Droid work with Novel GroupWise? within the Droid General Discussions forums, part of the Droid Discussions category; Originally Posted by Emerald01 Awesome. Thank you so much! I'm trying to convince my boss to let me go with a Droid instead of a ...
We're a Novell reseller partner, so we do get the shinies. He gets back from Brainshare soon, actually. I'm hoping he'll share the news on Monday.I'll check into the Mobility pas server, though.
Thanks!
Here is a technology preview of the new Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack that your IT department to test non production today to a DROID and many other smart phones - see http://www.novell.com/promo/data_synchronizer.html
Syncing GroupWise to your DRIOD is easy. As already said you can use POP or better yet IMAP. This will take care of your email. If you are looking for a way to sync GroupWise tasks and calendar then your in for a bit more searching. There is no free software that I'm aware of to do this.
Novell and GroupWise does support mobile devices. You just have to have the right software. Novell's "Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack" is in BETA now that will allow a full sync of your DRIOD with GroupWise. It's a sever level software package that your tech guys would need to install.
my school is getting rid of Novell Groupwise within the month for some sort of google based mail (not gmail) They assured us we would not lose our current email addy. I tried to set up groupwise on my phone, but I suck at the POP3 crap, so I just simply bookmarked our county's web-based groupwise that I can sign in on, and put that with my other emails into a folder.
Either way, I will look into that forwarding thing, but I gotta be honest, I get so much junk emails due to coaching, reffing, day to day b.s., I don't know if I want my phone blowing up every 2 minutes just to see the results for the 6th grade talent show. lol
FWIW - I can do attendance and grades on my Droid .... lol. I don't, but I could
I receive GWise e-mails (In fact, my whole file cabinet shows up) through the IMAP server, but I cannot reply. Replies appear to be sent and even show up in my "sent" folder both on my phone and GWise, but they don't really send. After I tried it about 100 times, it finally worked a few times, but not since. Somebody said to use the gmail server as the outgoing server - I tried that and it didn't work either. Pop 3 stinks!
This is how I got it on my Eris. I used the IMAP protocol and input my standard GW email address username and password. For the IMAP server I used
gwate.alvinisd.net (this is for alvin ISD of course use whatever yours is instead). No security type and server port 143. Do not select login required for outgoing messages. SMTP server was gwgate.alvinisd.net again and no security with port 25. This is what worked for me I hope it helps!