Will Droid work with Novel GroupWise?

[jingo74]

If anyone who uses GroupWise for work email can chime in, I'd like to know if the Droid will support Novel? Can an email account hosted on a GroupWise server be piped in using IMAP? Also would like to know about using GW calendars on the Droid? Many thanks!

Jason

[JFDroid]

I'd like to know if anyone knows if this is possible, too. I have a school e-mail through Novell Groupwise, in addition to my gmail account. Currently, I have my school e-mail forwarded to my g-mail so that I can receive it in my gmail inbox, but with the Droid now, it would be easier to just have my phone set up so that I can have the e-mail show up without being forwarded.

[JFDroid]

I just checked with ITS at my school. We use Novell Groupwise servers for our e-mail. They said that these types of servers don't support mobile devices, but you can go into options, rules, and set a rule to forward ALL incoming mail to your Gmail account, that way all your Novell Groupwise mail gets to your Gmail, and thus you'll see it pop up on your droid.

The only thing to watch out for is attachments being a little weird sometimes (I've been using the forwarding rule on Novell for over a year now to access my school e-mail on my BlackBerry via the BlackBerry Gmail Plug-In) and also watch out for mailbox space limitations on your Novell Groupwise account. Because of all the forwarding of new mail, your sent folder on Novell gets HUGE really fast and I have to go through and empty it pretty often (2-3x a week) in order to keep my mailbox size in check.

That's what I know... hope it helps someone!

[Motosmokeater]

minor note. Novell Groupwise did sync with my Palm treo 755P. Both email and calendar. I miss it. It also syncs email. Our It pays a for a service to sync peoples I/phones and novell GW calendars.

[BrokenRhino]

This would be nice to know. Our IT guy can't get it to work with our GW IMAP servers. Something about IMAP4. Way above my head. Any tips would be nice.

[barristerbeany]

I currently forward mails from groupwise into gmail. however, novell in is the process of creating a program and they are certifying its use and syncing with the droid. also an independent program is working on it as well

[fst aslp]

I called out IT guy and he just had to enable POP3 on their end to make it work. I was able to set it up no problem.

Now sometimes my email will stop synching, but I restart and all is well.

[investroll]

I have been able to get inbound email from Groupwise on my droid via our IMAP server. However, our outbound smtp server won't connect with android devices. Does anyone know any workarounds? It has been suggested that I go to vtext.com and use outgoing.verizon.net, but apparently they have discontinued their smtp service.

I have spent hours with various tech support reps from my university and Verizon.

HELP!

[hna0002]

configure it to use gmail for outboud mails smtp.gmail.com and try out different security types to see which works for you. SSL worked for me.

BUT, recently I faced a problem that for every email that I had sent via droid there were 100s of these emails repeated in my newly created 'sent' folder of groupwise and hence the space got filled up exponentially. May it just happened to me and it works in all other cases, I dont see anythign as issues with anyone else.
Also, 'Notify Technology' is coming up with some gadget for android to use groupwise.

Thanks,
Hiren

[investroll]

configure it to use gmail for outboud mails smtp.gmail.com and try out different security types to see which works for you. SSL worked for me.

BUT, recently I faced a problem that for every email that I had sent via droid there were 100s of these emails repeated in my newly created 'sent' folder of groupwise and hence the space got filled up exponentially. May it just happened to me and it works in all other cases, I dont see anythign as issues with anyone else.
Also, 'Notify Technology' is coming up with some gadget for android to use groupwise.

Thanks,
Hiren

Thanks! What port did you use? It is not working with SSL. And are you signing in to google mail to do it?