al3x/sovereign — pull request #108 by PajamaSoft (2013-12-19 02:26:34+00:00)
Title: Mobile push notifications via Z-Push

This pull request adds Z-Push to allow for mobile push notifications via ActiveSync/Exchange (something I really wanted). Before this I was using d-push successfully for about 20 days or so. However, the Debian 7 d-push is a bit behind Z-Push and doesn't allow syncing HTML email (thus, all mobile emails were in plain text). So instead I switch to z-push and not only is it faster, but now pushed emails are in HTML.

The only major limitation of z-push (and d-push) is that you cannot have multiple accounts syncing on the same device to a single server. It looks like this is/was in the plans to be able to support but has not, yet, been implemented. Of course, you can still have unlimited accounts configured the normal IMAP way on a single device.

This is using the latest release of z-push (version 2.1.1-1788) which was released on November 30th.

I've also included a bit in the README explaining z-push and how to configure it.