EAS Not working
Problem reported by Chris Costanzo - Today at 9:13 AM
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Hi everyone,

We moved to Smartermail last week, and things were working great.

A mistake was made and one of our domains was deleted. Luckily it wasn't too far into the migration and we were able to re-do the migration.

After this last migration, all kinds of sync issues have been happening. 

In Webmail, users mail from years ago is all now marked as UNREAD and we cannot force it to mark it as read.

Outlook clients l via EAS./EWS let you mark all the messages as read, and then over time, they all appear in Outlook again as unread.

Mobile clients (Apple Mail) are in a similar situation, and any message you try to open sits at LOADING.

Even as a backup, we are unable to connect to the server via IMAP with ANY client.

Yes,  we have deleted accounts, recreated profiles, and even factory reset a few phones, and the problem persists even now on the 2nd domain which was working fine before as well.

I've been dealing with support (via email) for the past few days, and I believe they have thrown their hands up on it, expecting me to find a solution and offering temporary fixes (using outlook mobile), that also really doesn't work.

Anyone have ANY ideas or thoughts on things to check?

J. LaDow Replied
EAS can be heavily dependent on proper DNS - as outlook likes to refresh it's connection information from time to time.  We have found Outlook not stripping the trailing period off of server names when autodiscover is used - causing clients to fail to connect and sync properly.

There will most likely be issues with cached profiles.  Then consider whether NEW outlook is in use, or old -- as there are various problems between the two.

There are a whole myriad of issues that can be encountered.  Making sure your logfies are set to "Detailed" for the protocols in question may help at least diagnosing what's causing the issues.

There could be import problems bringing the data in that did not import properly - but that may not show it's face until the client tries to access the messages in question.

Devices should be double checked for lingering profiles / email account configurations - have their caches flushed if possible (powered off and restarted works wonders sometimes).

We gave up on Outlook mobile and have encouraged Thunderbird for mobile devices but that is out of the scope of your problems (and most likely not an option).  SmarterMail recommends emClient across the board as an Outlook alternative. It might be worth testing at least on one device and see if emClient is having the same problems Outlook is.

Our company has run SmarterMail for 3 years give or take but we don't use the EAS/EWS/MAPI.  In the end, logfiles set to their highest levels will be your friend in trying to track down the issue(s).
MailEnable survivor / convert --
Chris Costanzo Replied
Oh I got you. Yes we have the log files at the highest and support has looked at them for me, but with no answers yet.

We have tried setting up these accounts on a totally new deployed machine. (Actually I just finished this about 10 minutes ago). With the exact same results, so I'm confident is not anything cached on the machine.

While yes, I agree with you, Outlook and MAPI are a mess, not using an advertised feature of Smartermail that we paid for is really not a viable solution if that makes sense. Actually it was the selling point during our testing, and even worked beautiful after the migration before the accidental domain deletion.


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