Revision as of 08:15, 3 May 2013

Overview

This module can be used to synchronize Emails, Contacts, Tasks and Calendars to a mobile device/tablet.

Dependencies

Requirements

Installation

THIS IS A BETA VERSION USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

ActiveSync support does not work out of the box. To add support of ActiveSync take the following steps (Step 1 to 5 can be done with modules/sync/z-push2/install.sh too):

1. Download z-push from http://zarafa-deutschland.de/z-push-download/final/2.0/. We used version 2.0.7 (But it's probably best to take the latest stable 2.0.x version of z-push).

2. Unpack the archive and put it in the "modules" directory of Group-Office.

3. rename the folder to "z-push2"

4. Copy the folder backend/go/ from modules/sync/z-push2/ to modules/z-push2/backend/

5. Copy config.php from modules/sync/z-push2/ to modules/z-push2/

6. Now, you must configure Apache to redirect the URL 'Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync' to the index.php file in the modules/z-push2/ directory.
This can be done by adding the line Alias /Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync /path/to/groupoffice/modules/z-push2/index.php
Don't use a symlink, this won't work.

7. Restart apache2 and configure your mobile device with the servername, username and password and you should be in sync!

IMPORTANT NOTE: remember to replace the z-push files again when you are upgrading Group-Office!

CGI mode By default z-push only works when PHP is loaded as an Apache module. If you use PHP in CGI mode you'll have to follow this workaround:

http://z-push.sourceforge.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1245&p=4762&hilit=apache_request_headers#p4762

Uninstall

Remove the z-push 2 folder from the modules directory of Group-Office.

User Manual

• LINK TO USERMANUAL

Additional Notes

For debugging change modules/z-push/config.php:

define('LOGLEVEL', LOGLEVEL_ALL);

A log will be generated in /home/groupoffice/log/

Debugging

Sometimes it can happen that an item is not synced to the device. Then you get an error in the z-push-error.log file that is located in the {go_file_storage_path}/log/z-push/ folder. The error can look like this:

01/02/2013 12:22:31 [24372] [ERROR] [john@doe.com] Ignored broken message (SyncAppointment). Reason: '4' Folderid: 'a/GroupOfficeCalendar' message id '25'
01/02/2013 12:33:53 [28717] [ERROR] [john@doe.com] Ignored broken message (SyncMail). Reason: '2' Folderid: 'm/INBOX' message id '1674'
01/02/2013 12:34:02 [28717] [ERROR] [john@doe.com] Ignored broken message (SyncMail). Reason: '2' Folderid: 'm/INBOX' message id '1674'
01/02/2013 12:36:35 [13733] [ERROR] [john@doe.com] Ignored broken message (SyncMail). Reason: '2' Folderid: 'm/INBOX' message id '1674'

When this happens you can usually find more info on this error by using the "z-push-admin.php" file that is located in the z-push folder. This is a commandline tool that is shipped with the z-push2 package. You can use it like this:

cd /usr/share/groupoffice/modules/z-push2
php z-push-admin.php -a list -u {go_username}

• Note: You need to go to the directory of z-push2 first because otherwise the GO config file cannot be loaded.

When you have runned the z-push-admin tool then you can find a better error description for each device in the result of the "list" command.