There is a new version of Mail for Exchange available - Mail for Exchange 2.5.
Mail for Exchange is the name of Nokia's email client built on Microsoft's ActiveSync technonology. Mail for Exchange provides push synchronization of email and other data between Microsoft Exchange and Nokia devices.
The new version of Mail for Exchange is not an incremental update but instead, a big step forward for this free email application.
For the first time Mail for Exchange now includes support for features available on Microsoft Exchange 2007.
So if you are in luck, and your company uses Exchange 2007 you have a few additional useful features.
Ability to set up Out of the Office auto-reply notifications from your Nokia device. In my opinion, this is probably the best feature of this release. A few of us have probably forgot to turn on the "out of office" function when we have rushed out on Friday afternoon when going on vacation. Or perhaps realized on the way to the airport, before a long trip, that we forgot to turn on the out-of-office auto replay. Well, no more booting up the laptop to set up out-of-office you can do it directly from your device.
However, finding this new function is a bit tricky. I expected the out-of-office function to show up in the calendar but it is not.
Instead, it is part of your Mail for Exchange profile. You need to go to the MfE application in the MfE folder, and then go to "edit profile" and buried deep in the settings for "profile" is out of office.
But once you find the feature it is dead easy to set up.
My second favourite feature of MfE 2.5 is support for "Follow-Up" flags so that you can see flags on the device for emails that have been flagged on the server. It is also possible to Clear flag, Flag complete and set Follow up from the device.
Mail for Exchange 2.5 also introduces a number of Mailbox policies which will make all the IT administrators of Exchange happy.
For an example, the administrator can allow or disallow simple passwords such as “12345” or “1111”. Similarly, the administrator can define the length of time a password can be used before it must be changed and also define the number of old passwords to be saved so that user can not reuse them.
These features might not seem so important for an end user but makes all the difference to the group of hard working administrators who has the thankless task of supporting us all with our email issues.
The number of supported device models has also grown. Mail for Exchange 2.5 naturally supports all Eseries devices and a number of Nseries device. MfE 2.5 supports these new devices
Nokia N78, Nokia N96, Nokia 6124 and Nokia 6220.
The release also contains a number of bug fixes - that goes without saying. But there is one more change. Mail for Exchange now comes in multiple installation files, depending on the version of Symbian on your Nokia device.
S60 3.0 - First generation Eseries i.e. E50, E60, E61(i) E62, E65, E70, N73 etc.
S60 3.1 - Some Eseries and many Nseries i.e. E51, E90, N81 8GB, N82, N95, N95 8GB
S60 3.2 - Nseries devices i.e. N78, N96, 6124, 6220 classic
Once again, please note that the above features require Microsoft Exchange 2007 server. If you / your company is using a previous version of Microsoft Exchange as your email server, the above features will not be available.
Mail for Exchange can be downloaded from here.
UPDATE:
To begin using the new Exchange 2007 server features you must perform a Full Resync on the device (Options>Full resync) after you have upgraded to Mail for Exchange 2.5.0.
RE: mfe = free?
please, the notion that a “enterprise” dievce device shouldn’t come with and therefore have to rely on thrid parties for a decent email client is ridiculous.
instead of having like 4 or 5 mail client offerings some of which are always on the outs at any given time it would be super nice if there were just one, it supported all the necessary access types (pop imap active sync blackberry (if you care)) came with the device, and it worked.
that would be super novel. also it seems like the baseline that the purchaser of a device like the e90 (communicator anyone) should have a right to expect.
roberto: got a chance to try it out. Looking good. i’ll buy it after evaluating it for 10 days. The only funny thing about it is that it simply shrinks the font, the other aspects such as line spacing seem to remain the same. So, when composing an email or SMS you still get to see the same no of lines as before but the only benefit is that you can cram more words onto each line
Hope one of the firmware updates of S60 will provide a more elegant way of reduicing fonts…. Also did not like the fact that even the menu sizes have to be reduced just so that i can have a better emailing experience, especially since i dont get any added benefit of seeing more menu options on a single screen.
maybe i am asking for too much from a phone… i have started comparing it to my laptop these days
thanks for the lead.
it’s not work at e61 fw3. Reason - don’t connected to the exchange server. Is anyone who have the same problem?
Feam - if that is the case then what is the max. size the e61i can handle?
I have just check and it is hanging with very small attachments. Something else buggy going on here. I have the same problem as Cyber-Jedi (E61i, Exchange 2007)
Getting duplicate e-mails as well!
Looked at the error log on the phone = 30207
i have an N95, installed MfE 2.5 i keep getting untrusted certificate pop-up, i already installed certificate to the device, any suggestions why? or how to fix this problem?
Hi, I’m trying to install MfE 2.5 on my E51 non-camera edition. It fails, saying ‘no access..’ during the installation. Anyone knows what happen?
Hi
Completely irrelevant, but what theme is on the screenshots?
Does anyone know how to restore my E61’s security settings if I no longer need to connect to a corporate Exchange server? Uninstalling MfE did not restore to pre-MfE state, thus I still have to enter 8 digit passwords every 20 min.
Hi John,
I think it is Purple Dots:
http://www.e-series.org/archives/446
Hi
I have a brand new nokia 6220, we are using exchange 2007 and I just installed the Mfe 2.5 version. But I cant get it to work. After completing the profile wizard i get the error “System error. Try again”. Ive tried to install it multiple times, I even tried to reset the phone to factory settings, but nothing worked.
Has anyone else seen this error? And more importantly, anyone aware of any workarounds?
Before my 6220 I had a Nokia E65, and used the Mfe 2.3 version without any problems.
/Henrik
Hi Henrik,
I have the same problem with N95 and Mfe 2.5. Even resetting to factory settings does not help.
Shitty software..
Ha..
Now I can sync emails, I just had to setup MaxEmailBodyTruncationSize and MaxEmailHTMLBodyTruncationSize values to something reasonable on Exchange server.
Hi, Pasi,
What did you set the new values for the MaxEmailBodyTruncationSize and the MaxEmailHTMLBodyTruncationSize to?
Did that remove the “System error. Try again” error?
/henrik
Henrik,
I had the same and doing ‘full resync’ solved the problem.
However I get all the time ‘untrusted certificate’ even tough I installed it many times (and it worked ok till I upgraded MFE to exchange 2007…
Yair
I have used automatic period block for a while. So the phone automatically block and only when you use a pincode it’s possible to unblock the phone and use it. This function you can find with Settings - Security - Telephone and SIM - Automatic period block.
I also used MfE version 2.2.0. Everything worked fine until I wanted to unblock this function. It wasn’t possible to unblock this function in any way.
Nokia Support advised to update my phone software to version 3.0633.69.00. After the update the function was finally turned off.
I downloaded MfE 2.5.3, but when I was configuring my MfE account suddenly the block-function was turned on from itself. I had to insert the pincode to unblock my phone and from that moment it wasn’t possible to turn this function off again.
Does anybody know it there are any problems with the latest version of MfE (2.5.3) and automatic period block on a nokia E65?
Ajaneesh - I feel the exact same as you about MfE fonts. I really want to be able to shrink at app level only and turn off bold. Real estate is a premium. Have you managed to solve this??
Ajaneesh:
I feel exactly the same as you about the font. I’m desperate to shrink the font size in MfE and get rid of the bold. To me looks completely unprofessional and I can’t stand scrolling excessively to read a few lines.
Have you come up with a solution for this?
Damo
I had MfE (earlier version) on a N73 which worked fine, but I lost that phone. Now I bought a 6220 and installed the new version of MfE. But I am having problems with calendar and notes (dont sync emails). I am not sure what is happening, but often (though not alwarys) sync will delete most of the calendar posts and notes on the server, and then doing another sync will of course delete the same on the phone. For this reason I only sync manually and I have to back up the existing calendar to my Laptob with PC Suite before every sync to be sure that calendar posts are not lost.
I would like to have MfE sync automaticalle once every 12th or 4th hour (as I did without any problem with the earlier version), but when I tried that option all post were deleted on both phone and server.
Can anyone imagine what might be wrong - probably a settings issue, but what?
Can it be because I first tried to sync with the standard sync program before I installed MfE, and I also did a PC Suite sync. This created a sync profile (in the standard sync program, not in MfE), which I am unable to delete. In stead I have disabled all options (calendar, notes, email etc.).
/mik
Hi,
Please can anyone help me with setting up MFE on my E90 mobile. I need step by step process with the server details etc.
I’ll be highly oblidged.
Thanx & Regards
Date4dinner
Good day. Thanks for the nice work you guys have been doing. I want to know if I can use MfE to sync emails from gmail and yahoo mail. If yes, how can I go about it. Thanks.