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EXCHANGE MAIL SERVICES - incl. push / aliases etc

hey guys,
I'm now offering exchange mailboxes to users (subscription based service). right now i see two, one by austindkelly in the wizard forum (he's disappeared for over a month and looks like he doens't offer his service any more) and one by denial in the kaiser section ($5/month). I thought I'd offer up a similar service starting with the hermes group (cheaper of course) with a few extra tidbits of joy...
- supports iphone exchange services, saves a heck of money over apple's mobileme service!
- outlook web access (with the advanced interface)
- 1gb quota
- both SSL as well as standard port options
- *IMAP access* - you don't even need outlook, syncs flawlessly with your phone.
- *MAPI* outlook access - hook up your outlook on your PC to sync with my service which in turn syncs with your phone. no plugging in ever needed!
- alias included (get your own email)
- changing your password through outlook web access (one-way non-reversible encryption).
I figured it's a bit of an overkill having my own exchange server that's serving a single account (i.e. mine). so why not open it up!
Price is $10 for 3 months, $19 for 6 months.
Please PM me if you're interested... Already have a number of beta testers who I've received only positive responses from so far. I'll probably set up your account within 12 hours (probably less).
And yes, will give you unused credit money back etc etc if you're unsatisfied for whatever reason. I'm really not in this for the money, it's more to utilize something I spent hours building up, plus to cover the costs of my internet / server hardware.
And, as usual, if you need any files hosted for xda-developers just let me know, i'm already hosting over 40 ROM images and serving 5-6gb/day in ROMs from the wiki!
cheers!
free accounts:
will provide 10 rotating free accounts at any given time for test purposes, will base it off of usage. so if you use the free account, i'll keep it up indefinitely, if not then account will be removed after 14 days and given to the next person in line.
Free accounts do not have MAPI access, have 50mb storage, have no aliases either.
Depending on utilization I may increase this 10 free account limit.

Chamelion, I will be pming you later in regards to two accounts, there are a couple things I need to research beforehand.

CUSTEL said:
Chamilion, I will be pming you later in regards to two accounts, there are a couple things I need to research beforehand.
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sure thing let me know if there's anything i can help answer with your research! granted, you probably know more about this than i do

what version of Exchange are you running. I am curious about recieving html e-mail.

betrayed said:
what version of Exchange are you running. I am curious about recieving html e-mail.
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Yes, that and can I point my domains mx record to you and use my personal .com address?

betrayed said:
what version of Exchange are you running. I am curious about recieving html e-mail.
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exchange 2003.
nvisi0n said:
Yes, that and can I point my domains mx record to you and use my personal .com address?
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much easier for both of us if you just forward your personal .com address e-mail to the e-mail address my server assigns you. if you have an alias, your replies will appear from your personal .com email, not from my server
for those who've PMed overnight (i'm in london time, 8:20am here now) i'll set up your accounts within the next few hours.

update: all accounts from last night are set up. see your credentials information in your PM boxes!

Case sensitive
Hi Chamelion !
Did you get my last PM regarding the change of username to make it lower case to avoir pb with the transfer of emails to gmail.com ?
Thx in advance,
Cédric

DR400 said:
Hi Chamelion !
Did you get my last PM regarding the change of username to make it lower case to avoir pb with the transfer of emails to gmail.com ?
Thx in advance,
Cédric
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hey cedric!
yep got the PMs, i've changed your username now to make it lowercase. give it a shot now!
hadn't replied yet as your PMs were at 12:30am and 3:20am my time; i'm an old man and needs his rest

chamelion said:
hey cedric!
yep got the PMs, i've changed your username now to make it lowercase. give it a shot now!
hadn't replied yet as your PMs were at 12:30am and 3:20am my time; i'm an old man and needs his rest
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Hi !
I can understand. No problem.
I'm 35 myself but my last daughter is only 2 weeks old ... that's why I'm still alive and kicking at 2.30 am (Paris Time).
Cheers for the account. I'm giving it a try and will report soon.

current users : please feel free to give feedback on this thread too! appreciate it via PM but it'd be nice for other users to get some 3rd party reviews of the service!

How to use?
Chamileon, how can I use?
W/O internet access through phone company?
With internet access through free wifi?
TIA
jjjjayd13

doesn't matter what kind of internet you have / what method you use. long as you can open a website, you can use this

chamelion said:
current users : please feel free to give feedback on this thread too! appreciate it via PM but it'd be nice for other users to get some 3rd party reviews of the service!
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Hi everyone,
I have to acknowledge that the service provided by Chamelion is working flawlessly. I've been using it for a week now and did not encounter any trouble except encoding issues but apparently not from his side. Flexmail is getting crazy with encoding, but poutlook is working great.
For sure, give it a try (if not more) !
thanks Chamelion for the good experience.
Note also that Chamelion is very accessible and quick to respond.

appreciate the positive review DR400, thanks

I have also been using the service for a week, and both Web Access and poutlook are working great.

Great!
I just signed up for the exchange service with Azim and it is great. Not only is it working wonderfully, his customer service and response time has been great. You can't beat what he offers with a stick!
Sign up peeps!
Scarlet

thanks for the feedback guys and gals!

Customer Service is A+, Exchange works flawlessly.
Great Job Azim, and Thank You!

few people are asking about synching from multiple sources...
from my understanding i can only give you one alias for your accounts, which means you can't select your "from." however you're free to forward as many accounts as you wish to the account i create for you, but you can only send from one "alias."
another multi-synching thing people are asking is whether you can sync calendar with your desktop and email with my service. sure!! its best that way in fact - that's what i do. i have my outlook on my desktop which has my calendar, contacts, and only sync my email via push on exchange to my server... you can even take this a step further and set up IMAP access so what you see in your email client is the same as what you'll see in your pocket outlook... if you delete from your desktop, whoosh it disappears from your PDA too

enabling auto image download for html mail?

I've created a thread here in hopes that someone with the right know how can help out. the orginal thread can be found here....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=345071
It as become a huge annoyace to continuesly click "download images" for my mail. I've been searching for a long time find a reg key some where that'll change this, but no look. in the ogirnal thread, there is mention that the samsung i8000 has the setting disabled by default. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4631247&postcount=29
can anyone lend a hand with this one?

I'm intrigued.. will take a gander.

l3it3r said:
I'm intrigued.. will take a gander.
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200 points for this man!

This question was asked way back in June 07!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311030
It does give an explanation in the thread as to why you might not want to automatically download messages... basically you could suddenly find you are swamped with even more junk mails..

johnk1973 said:
This question was asked way back in June 07!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311030
It does give an explanation in the thread as to why you might not want to automatically download messages... basically you could suddenly find you are swamped with even more junk mails..
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i am not even sure how to make sense of what was said in that thread. I dont see how allowing automatic download for html images in an email will increase spam to the mail account. at this point in the game, winmo is the only platform that doesnt allow html rendering by default. if this were true, then woulding everyone else who doesnt use a windows mobile device be flooded with spam?

Umm... pretty sure that my GMAIL account handles the SPAM ok.
I'm still going to look into this a bit more, but I have been super busy today.

As i understand what is said, spam senders send messages to accounts generated at random hoping some of them get to a proper account. The pictures that are in the email are encoded with email address it is sent to eg. [email protected] so that if you download that image the server knows that is a valid email address and is noted.. and spread for everyone else to send you a message...

johnk1973 said:
As i understand what is said, spam senders send messages to accounts generated at random hoping some of them get to a proper account. The pictures that are in the email are encoded with email address it is sent to eg. [email protected] so that if you download that image the server knows that is a valid email address and is noted.. and spread for everyone else to send you a message...
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Yes... that's exactly correct....except it goes to a server not an email address... basically the concept is that it notifies the sender that the email is legit, and adds them to the list of good email addresses to sell

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Yes... that's exactly correct....except it goes to a server not an email address... basically the concept is that it notifies the sender that the email is legit, and adds them to the list of good email addresses to sell
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like l3it3r said, my spam filter does a great job. can't tell you the last time i've seen spam come through my inbox. thats a none issue over here.

me either. It is a very rare occasion when I get spam in either my corporate or personal email.

if thats a problem we could atleast try to have an option to "trust this sender" or something to automatically download html pics from trusted sources

have added this thread to my subscriptions and will watch with interest
This is something that I have found annoying for a long time now that I can't just download the images in my emails by default. I really expected it to be an easy fix and that I would find an answer straight away along the lines of "...change this one line of the registry to '0' ... " so I was really surprised to see it was a much more complicated issue.
Anyway thanks in advance to anyone with the tech knowhow who is looking into this for us all

maybe its possible to make some script or something that presses automaticly "download pictures" when email opened... i have no idea how or if its possible but maybe someone can...

For Outlook on desktop computer this is possible on registry hack. On mobile outlook this registry key is not persist...?!
http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpressreading/qt/et_inline_off.htm
Maybe is possible on other location?

I'm looking for a solution to this as well. I would like the option to trust certain senders, at least. I can't believe Microsoft didn't trust us enough to give us an option for this. I would also like to have scrolling permanently enabled.

If you add the sender to your contacts, it will automatically download the images. This is the only way I have ever known to make this work, it would be great if someone figured it out, but until then this is the only work around I know.

i would like to have this function as well.. is great that my email mostly need image downloaded together.. when i got slow connection, i would like it to download all n internet picture together while it is idle. then once i got time i can faster read it all without further waiting for downloading.
thumbs up for this feature. at least have an option so that user can tweak themselves. no nid to argue about anything but juz let user make the choice accordingly.

DEFINITELY need to have this automatically download internet pictures AND turn on scrolling..... what's the point of having such a great screen and touch capabilities when the stupid email can't figure out how to show you pictures and let you scroll right?
HUGE oversight on Microsoft's part there - email should look as nice and classy as Opera does on my TP2!!!

UP !!!

I am still looking over this. Its really annoying and kills me. What a waste?

Change font in new and replies to emails?

I use the HTC email client for Exchange email and want to try to set the font to the same I use on my regular computer. I use Arial 10 for emails on my laptop, but this client keeps setting emails/replies to Times New Roman 12.
Can't understand why manufacturers can't understand that this is important to many business users, especially since it would be relatively easy to implement in the software. (Another owner and I modified the Roadsync software that came with our Samsung Omnia HDs to change the font with a hack and it turns out the phone doesn't need the actual font installed, it's just a specification line in the html header for the email that gets adjusted.)
Still, hoping against hope that there's already a solution out there.
Does anybody know of a way to change the font of new emails and replies to emails in the HTC email client?

I want to bump this one now that we'll be able to get root access to our Desires.
Unless somebody comes up with an easier solution, I'm hoping that we'll be able to find some kind of resource file related to the HTC email app stating:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
That we could mod to something like this:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Since getting the phone, I've been using the regular Sense Exchange email client and have been very happy with it with this one exception.
While most of my clients use the Outlook 2007 font standard of Calibri 11pt and some use the old standard of Arial 10pt, NONE use Times New Roman unless their using plain text rather than HTML emails.
An important part of freeing oneself from the desk or office is being able to seemlessly move around without shouting to the world "I'm not in my office", which many interpret as "I'm not at work". Responding to emails in a clearly mobile format, plain text or something that looks like plain text is not consistent with that, so why on earth have HTC chosen to use a font in HTML email responses or new emails that looks like plain text? Without the option of changing it?
I got tired of waiting for something to happen with the HTC app, so I reviewed the user manuals of Moxier Mail, RoadSync and Touchdown. I discovered that Touchdown allows you to adjust the font however you want in the settings. While the header of the last email sent is still in Times New Roman (if you include the email history), the body of your email from the Desire (or other Android phone) is adjusted to what you want. The rest of the app takes a little getting used to, but while different is at least as good as the built-in Sense client.
So now I'm happy to say that I'm able to send and respond to emails from my Desire using Calibri 11pt, the same as my office computer.

[Q] [FEATURE REQUEST] Facebook/Google/OpenID integration and login.

I'd like to see XDA logins be integrated with Facebook or Google or OpenID. What do you think? And, does XDA have an idea to implement this?

+1

yea, and more psudonymous collection of information which could arise in legal complications for XDA?,
No thanks

Hell, NO :banghead:
Why do people want integration? Can't you remember your password?
The less sharing between websites the better of personal data and information.

I want this, since i most often forget my passwords, lost a reddit account once.
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SimonTS said:
Hell, NO :banghead:
Why do people want integration? Can't you remember your password?
The less sharing between websites the better of personal data and information.
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+1
Sent from my ST25i using Tapatalk 2

SimonTS said:
Hell, NO :banghead:
Why do people want integration? Can't you remember your password?
The less sharing between websites the better of personal data and information.
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openID doesn't require any sharing of data beyond the identity itself, requires users approve what personal information is shared if more than just identity, and would be optional for those who would wish their login be completely separate from any other online identity. many users already provide Google email addresses, Facebook account information, paypal account information and other personally identifying information in their profile. openID would also allow people to login using their own trusted methods, rather than hoping this site is never compromised along with its password database. check out stackexchange; they've got openID sign in done right. since its the future and all, I should be able to have /one/ online identity, which I can manage myself (without google or facespace), and use that identity on any other site if I choose. and I for one like having one less password.

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openID doesn't require any sharing of data beyond the identity itself, requires users approve what personal information is shared if more than just identity, and would be optional for those who would wish their login be completely separate from any other online identity. many users already provide Google email addresses, Facebook account information, paypal account information and other personally identifying information in their profile. openID would also allow people to login using their own trusted methods, rather than hoping this site is never compromised along with its password database. check out stackexchange; they've got openID sign in done right. since its the future and all, I should be able to have /one/ online identity, which I can manage myself (without google or facespace), and use that identity on any other site if I choose. and I for one like having one less password.
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This may come to be but don't hold your breath. This is not top of the list for developers
Wayne Tech S-III

Possible hack on xda databases

Hi all i just got this spam email and it says it got my email address from browsing XDA forums heres what the email says
Greeting my dear,
How are you and how is your work? i hope that all is well with you, My name is miss vera ,i know that you may be surprise how i get your contact, i come in contact with your profile today at (forum.xda-developers.com) when i was browsing looking for honest partner,then i feel to drop this few line to you , and i will like you to contact me through my email so that we can know each other and exchange our pictures, and we may be come partner.My email address is ([email protected])
Remember the distance does not matter what matters is the love we share with each other.
i am waiting to hear from you soon.
With regards Miss vera
Please contact me directly with ([email protected])
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the email address from the email is [email protected] so im just giving users a heads on there emails.
Thanks
Eoghan

It might be better off if you post this in this thread because even though it's not exactly the same, it could be linked plus admins have posted in that thread so they'll see this easier.
''Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver''

Well in your profile there is "send pm" and "send mail" huh
So they didn't get your email adress, just a reply Form I guess.
Edit : hum seems that changed a bit. I was sure there was send mail option once. But still it displays your email adress.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

Whiskey103 said:
Well in your profile there is "send pm" and "send mail" huh
So they didn't get your email adress, just a reply Form I guess.
Edit : hum seems that changed a bit. I was sure there was send mail option once. But still it displays your email adress.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
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there was a send mail option i think it is possible that it got my email address from my user profile where paypal donate is who knows lol.

I guess gangadar itself is shaktimaan,as dr.jackall created clone of geetha vishwas, kilwish might made duplicate gangadar
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eoghan2t7 said:
Hi all i just got this spam email and it says it got my email address from browsing XDA forums heres what the email says
the email address from the email is [email protected] so im just giving users a heads on there emails.
Thanks
Eoghan
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Your paypal email is set to display currently... That will be where they obtained it from.

Looks like Vera just wants some lovin, go get her stud.