Allow use of other IMAP servers

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Would it be possible to modify the application to use ANY IMAP server,
rather than just gmail. It'd be nice to push my SMS backups to *my* mail
server and thus have them on any of my client mail applications.

If this is just IMAP, is it just a case of modifying the server address?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Fuzzy...@gmail.com on 22 May 2009 at 4:00

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It's true that in theory it is possible to support other IMAP servers too. The 
problem is that it introduces a lot of 
special cases for all the different kinds of connection modes and edge cases. 
I'll assign low priority to this 
request as I'd rather keep SMS Backup simple (and robust). Patches are, of 
course, very welcome!

Original comment by chstu...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2009 at 10:13

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Priority-Low, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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I patched latest svn SMS Backup to include prefs for using a different IMAP 
server
than gmail.

Works flawlessly with my Cyrus 2.2 so far. Label name has to be "Inbox.SMS" in 
that case.

Original comment by felix.kn...@googlemail.com on 16 Aug 2009 at 3:56

Attachments:

• smsbackup_folderpatch.patch

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Today I manually inserted felix' patch into the source code of the svn-version 
of SMS
Backup.

The app displayed everything fine and tried to connect the right way. I checked 
that
via "logcat", but as SMS Backup / Imapstore seems to only work with IMAP-SSL, I
couldn't test it with my IMAP-server (which is TLS).

Anyways the patch looks very clean and therefore I _highly_ recommend to work 
this
patch into the original source as soon as possible.

Original comment by madc...@gmail.com on 6 Oct 2009 at 2:45

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Original comment by chstu...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2009 at 1:08

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I really appreciate the work done for this patch, thank you! However, I'm still 
hesitating 
to include it as this setting would be confusing to >90% of the users. It also 
adds many 
more possible configurations which are very hard to debug.

The easiest would be to hide this setting for normal users and make it hard to 
uncover 
it. In order to properly support all kinds of IMAP servers for end-users, a lot 
of work 
would've to go into testing and UI (see the stock Email app of Android).

Original comment by chstu...@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2009 at 9:26

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How about something as simple as an additional menu option that required the 
user to
enter a password/code that could only be found in the wiki that would enable
configuration of 'self supported' servers. The wiki page could make it quite 
clear
that the use of the function is ill advised and that if you really, really 
wanted to
use it you would be on your own?

Original comment by Fuzzy...@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2009 at 10:01

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Ok, I went and updated my patch.

I moved the server address to a sub category inside the advanced category. I 
also
added the text "Do not change unless you know what you are doing!" to the 
category
description. I didn't add any passcode, because I think that users are not THAT 
stupid ;)
For those tinkering around anyway, I added the default values for gmail into the
property descriptions. So no "Reset to default" button, but I guess the default 
in
the description should suffice.

I also added the option madcrax requested. In that same category you can now 
choose
which security protocol to use. There is SSL (Required), SSL (Optional), TLS
(Required), TLS (Optional) and none. The "(Optional)" means that any certificate
errors are ignored. E.g. for self-signed certs etc.

Hope this makes the patch acceptable for integration into the next version. Let 
me
know if there need to be more changes.

Original comment by felix.kn...@googlemail.com on 12 Dec 2009 at 8:51

Attachments:

• smsbackup_folder_plus_security.patch

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Hey,

great work @Felix.
Could somebody sent me a compiled copy for testing the new feature???
I'm new to android by the way don't sue me. :-)

Thx

dschoerdi@googlemail.com

Original comment by Dschoe...@gmail.com on 21 Jan 2010 at 1:20

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I've reviewed the patch and it looks really good, thanks a lot! Sorry for the 
long 
delay... :-/

Are okay with me including this under the Apache License 2.0?

Original comment by chstu...@gmail.com on 22 Jan 2010 at 8:50

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Ups, I totally missed that comment by you. Sorry! Of course the APL 2.0 is okay 
for me!

Original comment by felix.kn...@googlemail.com on 21 Apr 2010 at 5:16

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Hi guys,

I'd love to get my hands on this patch.  Was just wondering if there's any 
progress on getting it integrated into the main release?

Thanks to all concerned on the good work!

Cheers!

Mark.

Original comment by mark.tu...@gmail.com on 16 Jun 2010 at 11:50

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This patch (or equivalent functionality) is incorporated in the sms-backup-plus 
fork at https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/#readme

Original comment by dav...@j5int.com on 20 Jul 2011 at 9:27