mxx wrote:Anybody, it would be great if you could report back when you know for how long the contacts actually stayed on the iphones
UPDATE DECEMBER 9th 2010:- I have since lent the iPhone 2G to the user who had the Nokia E71 and whose sync problems I had been battled for months (he will be able to get an iPhone4 from Vodafone in January).
- The same mailbox that was totally unsyncable with the Nokia worked flawless with the iPhone 2G.
- Things worked flawless for about a month or two, the he complained that all his contacts were gone.
- Upon investigating, I found and modified two suspicious contacts from his Outlook Contacts folder:
1) had no name, just a company, I therefor put the Company Name also in the Lastname field
2) had no name and no company, just a Phone number, I completely deleted the contact.
Soon after, he called and told me the contacts had reappeared.
My summary from all those (horrible) Scalix Activesync expericence: Even though Nokia is on the compatbility list, you should not even bother to try. From what I read here in the Forums Palm Pre and Android (using specific clients) are other options that may be working, but for now the only thing I can recommend from my own experience to at least mostly work is the iPhone.
There are still lots of issues:
- misformed contacts breaking the sync completely
- the still missing support for HTML mail
- only 97,5% of contacts are visible on the iPhone, the remaining 2,5% are missing for unknown reasons
but at least it is SOMEWHAT working with iPhones. An Activesync update to fix bugs and improve compatibilty is needed urgently. Unfortunately, Scalix does not seem to be willing to provide one
Since I'm somewhat of an iPhone fanboy myself, thats a situation I can live with for now, but be aware dear Scalix employees: Your reluctance to provide even basic bugfixes and compatibility updates will not be forgotten, neither by me or by my users. Unless something dramatically changes over the next few months, a subscription renewal is completely out-of-the-question. And of course I have long since stopped recommending Scalix for new installations, because the main selling point (Activesync) just doesn't work as it should.