New Version of Mail for Exchange: 2.3
Mail for Exchange, Nokia's enterprise. push email solution based on Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol, has yet again received an upgrade. The most recent version is Mail for Exchange 2.3.
I'm really impressed by the frequency Nokia updates Mail for Exchange. It seems as if a new version is available every other month or so. Considering the fact that the solution is free I am amazed by the constant updates. Sure, not all the updates are major but I rather have many, incremental updates and tweaks rather than wait a year for some big, bundled update.
Anyway, the new version includes one fix/new feature:
When trying to synchronize with a server that has an expired certificate, the user is now given the choice of continuing the synchronization. Previously, the scenario resulted in an error and the synchronization was stopped. (From the Release Notes)
If you don't have a Microsoft Exchange acccount but still want to try out the Mail for Exchange and a push email based solution I suggest you sign up for a free Exchange account with Mail2Web. They offer a great, free service.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Only problem with frequent updates is if you maintain all of your contacts within exchange (Which I do) and you aren’t careful, you will lose all of your customized ring tones, etc, that isn’t supported within Exchange itself.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:24 pm
My personal thoughts on why Nokia keeps Mail for Exchange free and updated with serious bug issues is because they have to. If they want to keep the S60 platform and E series devices in the market with the likes of Palm and Windows Mobile they have to have Mail for Exchange. I love my E61i and I use it for connecting over WiFI to my Cisco CallManager and the pure innovations out there for the S60 platform is amazing but having Mail for Exchange makes this a killer phone. Your site has also been a great find.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I wouldn’t exactly say Mail for Exchange is free, because it’s part of the Eseries devices value proposition and comes delivered with the phones &mdot; I would even say it’s an integral part. With this background I would expect more actual feature updates, e.g. to change the display to a bigger font size or have an overview with a configurable view of columns/fields.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:27 am
I have been using POP mail access then IMAP mail access on my E61i but when I discovered Mail for Exchange (+ Mail2Web - thanks’ 2 Ed) it became one of the most important things I like in E series. I recommend everyone! The frequency of updates and the fact that it’s free makes it really tough
February 1st, 2008 at 1:27 am
I think we still miss the contact picture sync from Exchange to the device.
ActiveSync in M$ has it. I need it on my S60.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:32 am
same question again…. Does this version let you sync subfloders under inbox?
thx. -a
February 1st, 2008 at 5:52 am
Does it fix the problem with self-signed certificates? Buying a Thwaite or other one can be costly.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:18 am
No more Nokia for me. I don’t want to support Nokias fishing for EU subsidies.
February 1st, 2008 at 8:26 am
More of a general MFE question:
Does anyone know how to make the Calendar meeting reminder alarm ‘Beep once’ with ‘Normal’ profile set to ringing? I have a lot of daily meetings on my calendar and I don’t want to bring out my phone and hit ‘Stop’ for each alarm on my calendar.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:34 am
No, from what I could tell from installing/testing it yesterday, the new version does NOT work with subfolders under Inbox. (I have 3 subfolders under my Inbox.) Nor is there any reference in the documentation for the new version about subfolders.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I love MFE too.
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:58 am
hi there,
great blog! On my wish list for mfe is still the possibility to save vcards received via e-mail. What do you think?
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Still don’t work properly with my old E61 firmware v1.xx, it can grab emails, but can not send and look into company address..feature not supported, it says
my old mfe v1.6 work better than this version
any idea how this new version can work on my old E61?
February 4th, 2008 at 7:20 am
sill no html emails??? Come on now server 2007 has been out a while now….
February 5th, 2008 at 2:18 am
I’ve got the E51 and am using my own site/server for emails. However I route the emails to my Gmail address and then check the emails from Gmail in order use Gmail’s spam filters. It works well.
However Gmail’s IMAP is not, as I understand it, proper push email in that the phone still has to connect regularly to download.
Can I use M4E with Gmail or which other way can I set it up to use with Gmail?
February 5th, 2008 at 9:04 am
To CoolFan RE Calendar reminder alarm:
Open Calendar.
Options>Settings>Calendar alarm tone
Pick some other really short tone (like some of the ones for message, email, or chat notification).
February 5th, 2008 at 9:06 am
To Pb908 RE E61: What version of software exactly are you using? I think I’ve still got an E61 sitting in a drawer somewhere. I can compare to my phone version and maybe try it on my device. *#0000#
February 5th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
To Sojan7:
Thanks for your reply. I have tried setting short tones in my Calendar alarm tone settings however they keep beeping until I have hit ‘Stop’. I just want the alarm tone to beep once instead of beeping at preiodic inter als.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
I was a user of E61 and mail4exchange with mail2web for a long time. I’m a user of e51 now with Gmail and Imap. I have setup my e51 to retrieve email every 15 minutes. For me there is no big difference between first and second aproaches, unless you want to start a realtime chat with your email.
BTW, you cannot use GMAIL and mail4exchange together, as mail4exchange is only for microsoft exchange (outlook) servers.
February 6th, 2008 at 9:14 am
answering /p:
gmail support imap idle.
February 6th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
To CoolFan:
The only way I managed to solve the alarm tone problem was to create an alarm tone consisting of one short beep and then about 1 minute of silence… Easy to do using Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
However, I hope this annoyance will be fixed by Nokia.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Let me get this right, don’t you have to have a monthly contract tariff in order to take advantage of the push-mail system? I mean, the mobile has to connect to GPS or 3G to retrieve e-mails not by standard network signals, therefore costing you especially if you are on pay-as-you-receive?
Am I right? Is it really that free?
February 6th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Has anyone else noticed battery issues since installing the new version?
I’ve got a 2 week old E51 and before I installed it, I was syncing M4E via “always on” during peak and then every 30 mins off peak, and I had 2 gmail imap accounts syncing every half hour and my battery would last all day / all night, I might use up one bar, depending on how much I talked on the phone.
Since installing it on Monday, my battery has dropped to 1 bar remaining in just the 8 hours that I’ve been at work and I haven’t talked on the phone at all.
Anyone else having the same issues?
Thanks
February 6th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
@ Nick N,
Yes, in order to use this service you need a data plan with your carrier.
@ Jon
I don’t have that problem. I used the previous version of Mail for Exchange with my E61i and the new version with the same device and don’t notice any difference at all. There must be some other settings which have changed.
Cheers
Ed
February 7th, 2008 at 12:46 am
@ Jon
Have you checked how often MFE is syncing? I have had this problem on a number of handsets, often caused by a problem with syncing the calendar.
The phone would constantly resync causing a drain on the battery. A full sync seemed to cure the problem.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:41 am
To sojan7, i just upgraded my old E61 firmware (I don’t remember, v1.xx) to the newest one, v3.xx. The upgrade done nice & smoothly. After that I installed again MFE v2.3 and it work!
No problem at all!!
February 7th, 2008 at 9:17 am
O OOOOOOOoo ooo Nokia, when will u send back my repaired (=brand new) E90. I know it is in Poland somewhere…sigh…
Now back at my E61, but still happy
February 8th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Really liking MFE so far, push works great and the total data used is nice and low, battery life top too.
Still lots of things missing:
-Can’t sync subfolders. WTF were you thinking Nokia, surely people have rules and want to do subfolders, if activesync can do it so can MFE!
-Read receipts - Still no configurable option, I may read an email on my phone whilst out / late at night so I might not want to send a read receipt. If you reading Nokia PLEASE can we have this
February 9th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Access point groups in there yet?
Still no sub folders it seems?
February 13th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Does anyone know if it is possible to mark an email as unread in mfe?
February 13th, 2008 at 8:01 am
i have the same issue with battery drain with 2.3 on N95-2 going back to 2.2 or DataViz
February 13th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Purdy, no such luck. It is not possible to mark an email as unread in any version of mfe.
February 13th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Thats a pity
I often look at an email over mfe, and then think I am going to look at it again when I get back to the pc.
In this case it would be nice to be able to mark it as unread.
Also I would like to be able to control which contact folder to sync, as I normally have one folder for my phone and one for my business contacts.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:44 am
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February 14th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Upgraded for several phones the company have, works great, except the Calendar sync doesn’t work. It said sync successfully but viewing the logs, calendar sync is 0.
It won’t get the calendar from exchange. This happens to all e61. Contacts and Emails works flawlessly.
Anyone having same problem?
February 15th, 2008 at 12:09 am
@ Purdy
You need to open the mail and you will find an option to mark it unread. Kinda funny.. but you have the option to mark as unread
February 15th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Thanks a lot, that was just what I needed
February 15th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Lucky - is that new with 2.xxx? I have never seen that before, it was a big complaint with mfe.
February 18th, 2008 at 1:53 am
yes.. in 2.XXXX
February 18th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Great - but on my new E61i with MFE2.3 how do I display my mfe inbox on the front screen like I used to have with the E61? I can’t seem to figure out how to see emails on the front screen unless I am missing the ‘display on front’ tick box or something
Any help welcome
February 18th, 2008 at 11:45 am
I had the expired certificate issue with MfE version 2.2 on my E65. Version 2.3 seems to have corrected this expired certificate issue, but now I repeatedly have to accept the “this site has sent an untrusted certificate, continue anyway” message. This pops up on my screen about every 30 seconds and they queue up so if I leave my phone idle for 5 minutes, that is 15 of those messages that I have to accept or dismiss. Aside from this being extremely annoying, it is also having a detrimental effect on my battery life.
To try and fix this, I installed the Root CA from my company’s webmail address and verified that all the information is the same as the certificate the warning is referencing. I also confirmed that the certificate is not expired (it expires in November 2008). I have also played around with different access points, changing trust settings on the certificate, and variations of the server name.
Anyone have any other suggestions on how I can get this to stop? I am looking for a way to have MfE recognize the root certificate I installed or perhaps some way to set an automated default response to this message.
Thanks,
Bryan
February 18th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Simon,
Try this:
Menu (the key to the left of the joystick)
Settings
Config.
Phone
Idle Screen Mode
Active standby mailbox
then select MfE
I have two mail systems on my phone and that’s how I switched the display for mine to MfE.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
i have E62, i removed the previous version of MFE and installed MFE2.3 , while installing MFE2.3 it gives Update error. i really need to get it working.
February 27th, 2008 at 8:44 am
I can’t find any information about - is it posible in this version see subfolders under Inbox and public folders?
February 27th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
What is going on with this blog, seems “dead” since a few weeks…
February 27th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Installed 2.3 nothing happened. Did the full Resync. Am still not able to send emails and says “Feature Not supported”. Bail me out here.
Cheers
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:09 am
est il availible en Francais, my English not good
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:25 am
Installed MfE 2.3 for my week old E51. Does not seem to connect to the server in the normal mode and also when I try to connect using the WLAN after changing the profile for access point. Get a message in the error log : Connection error, Try again later OR System error, Try again later. Do I need to go for a data plan with my service provider? Or have I missed a few settings?
March 6th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Yea what’s wrong with the site? Nothing new going on in e- series world ?
March 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Upgraded my Mail for Exchange to this latest version, and one improvement I noticed is that after synching my emails, I can now easily open newly received messages. In the my previous version, opening a new message takes such a long time and usually I have to restart my unit to be able to open the message. I am using an E61i which is around 3 months old, so I am not sure if this was just a problem within my unit or was a known issue in the previous MfE version.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
@Samras: Hope this doesn’t come too late.
Happened to me as well, the most common error is how you define the exchange owa server. For example if you access your website like this:
https://something.myserver.com/exchange/
What you need to enter in the settings is:
something.myserver.com
Only that, and it will work.
Good luck.
Ralf
March 16th, 2008 at 11:41 am
@ All who cannot synch.
This may be a little basic and redimentary. . .but. . .
1) Do you have a data plan on your phone? Can you pull up a webpage, like gmail for example.
2) Do you know what ports are open to your exchange enviorment? On ours, I allow only port 443. (Https)
3) If you are running Exchange 2003 or higher, do you have permissions to use the remote synch? This is a feature that can be disabled by your admin.
Also, for the GMAIL people. Gmail has a mobile client for S60 phones. It’s not bad.
And to all: YES MFE SHOULD SUPPORT FLIPPING SUBFOLDERS!!!! I have about 40-50 subfolders and tons of server side rules. This makes MFE almost useless for me.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Oh to get the gmail client, go to gmail.com/app from your phone.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Does anyone know how to make the Calendar meeting reminder alarm with a personalised sound?
Tobbee
April 1st, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Hi
i’ve a nokia e61 with the latest firmare and using m4e 2.3 i can receive mail but when i try to create an email i get messaging: feature not supported
m4e 1.6.1 works fine
can someone point me to the problem in here?
Regards
praeecedo
April 16th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
How do you get MfE work with different access points? I do not want to have to edit the synch profile and modify access point name every time I go from home to office. I hoped to create different profiles but I could not. How do you handle this?
April 25th, 2008 at 4:01 am
is this website definitely dead?
April 26th, 2008 at 8:56 am
@luca
maybe we need to ask the admin?