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System SEVEN Push Email Service now syncs Gmail Contacts & Calendar

During the reconfiguration of my wife’s E71 I noticed something great.

My favourite Push Email system, System SEVEN, now appears to also sync Gmail Contacts & Google Calendar!

System SEVEN version 7 Beta Program Update Release Notes
Release Date: January 26, 2009
Server build: 314335 (version 7.3)

NEW FEATURES

Added functionality for Gmail/Google Apps accounts
This release includes support for contacts sync on Google Apps accounts and for calendar sync on all Gmail/Google Apps accounts. This also includes googlemail.com (Gmail UK). Additionally, deleting messages in a Gmail/Google Apps account on your phone now results in the message appearing in the Trash in the Gmail web interface instead of in All Mail, and folder sync (”labels” in Gmail) is now supported.

Local SMTP server
This release includes support for a local SMTP server to handle cases where a user’s regular SMTP server is temporarily unavailable or is incompatible with the SEVEN service for some reason. The intention of this new feature is to eliminate the 3100 error during the process of registering Other POP/Other IMAP accounts and the problem of an unknown error resulting in sent mail being moved to Drafts. NOTE: This feature has not yet been enabled for the beta program; a separate announcement will be made when it is enabled.

KNOWN ISSUES

Some of the known issues listed in previous release notes are still open. Please refer to the lists of open bugs and open feature requests in the Announcements forum for the latest information.

FIXES INCLUDED IN THIS RELEASE

[ZSEVEN-9043] Server – ISP-based accounts – Add a local SMTP server to support Other POP/Other IMAP accounts where access to ISP’s SMTP server is blocked. Status: New feature in 7.3. See also New Features section.

[ZSEVEN-11659] Server – Gmail accounts – Add support for Gmail folders (labels) (was PFR-163). Status: New feature in 7.3.

[ZSEVEN-12163] Server – Gmail accounts – Gmail – Move deleted mail to Trash instead of moving to All Mail (was PFR-164). Status: New feature in 7.3.

[ZSEVEN-14097] Server – Gmail accounts – Add support for Gmail calendar. Status: New feature in 7.3.

[ZSEVEN-14122] Server – ISP-based accounts – Mail with a plain text footer does not sync properly. Status: Fixed in build 308626.

[ZSEVEN-14989] Server – ISP-based accounts – Date: header is missing from sent emails. Status: Fixed in build 308799.

[ZSEVEN-15830] Server – OWA / ISP – Contacts sync – Note field: line breaks are not properly rendered (was ZSEVEN-14873). Status: Fixed in build 312285.

[ZSEVEN-16083] Server – OWA – Full contacts sync may fail when a large number of contacts (>500) are being synced. Status: Fixed in build 303675 and 304448.

[ZSEVEN-16172] Server – Exchange 2007 – URL validaiton fails for Ex2k7 server with ISA server 2k6. Status: Fixed in build 305160 and 306079.

[ZSEVEN-16498] Server – OWA, ISP accounts – Two devices, one powered on, the other powered off – updates being sent to the wrong one. Status: Fixed in build 309697.

[ZSEVEN-16617] Server – OWA – Exchange 2007 – Deleted mail is not removed from phone on next update. Status: Fixed in build 308953.

[ZSEVEN-16628] Server – ISP-based accounts – Mail sync fails due to unexpected characters in sender’s email address. Status: Fixed in build 308790.

[ZSEVEN-17007] Server – Gmail accounts – Contacts sync doesn’t work due to a server crash related to a specific contact in the user’s account. Status: Fixed in build 308238.

[ZSEVEN-17477] Server – OWA – Contacts sync – categories are not synced to the phone. Status: Fixed in build 310836.

[ZSEVEN-17835] Server – Branded Services accounts – Spurious password expiration notices (was ZSEVEN-17797). Status: Fixed in build 312322.

[ZSEVEN-18141] Server – OWA, ISP accounts – Cannot send mail, message stuck in outbox due to server exception. Status: Fixed in build 314369.

System SEVEN currently support the following devices:

• Windows Mobile 6 Professional (for example: AT&T Tilt, HTC TyTN)
• Windows Mobile 6 Standard (for example: Samsung Blackjack II, Pantech Duo)
• Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC (for example: Cingular 8525, Treo 700w/750, HP iPAQ hw6915)
• Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone (for example: Samsung Blackjack, Motorola Q, Cingular 3125)
• Symbian Series 60 v3 devices (for example: Nokia E61, N75, N95)
• Symbian UIQ v3 devices (for example: SonyEricsson P1i, M660, W950i)
• Palm OS 5.x (for example: Palm Treo 680, 700p, 755p, Centro)
• Sony Ericsson J2ME devices (for example: K610i)
• Nokia Series 40 J2ME devices (for example: Nokia 6270)

System SEVEN can be downloaded here: http://community.seven.com/main.php

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