[Users] The pesky mobile interfaces, how to get rid of them permanently [solved]

[Info Zeta Alliance]

Hello All, 

I finally purchased an iPad to find out why the mobile interface pops up on iPad's in our organization. 
Since we are using pre-authentication one might believe you could use the redirectURL parameter 
as described here [ https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Preauth | https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Preauth ] 
&redirectURL=/zimbra/h/ 

Maybe it works? I am not 100% sure as I went a different way. 

I looked into the code of login.jsp and found there is an additional URL parameter one can put to make Zimbra 
use the Advanced Ajax interface. And this parameter is not the same one as documented on various places 
on the wiki. They all rely on the `pretty url` format aka /h/ and /m/ and /t/ and none of that helps me to 
switch to ajax which is under / 

Anyway, I found by reading the code one can do this: 
Example: 
[ https://mail.example.com%26client%3Dadvanced/ | https://mail.example.com&client=advanced ] 

The trick is to append that &client parameter to the generated URL for preauth in this example: 
[ https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Preauth#PHP_Code_For_Redirecting_to_Zimbra_Preauth | https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Preauth#PHP_Code_For_Redirecting_to_Zimbra_Preauth ] 
You would change: 
$preauthURL = $WEB_MAIL_PREAUTH_URL."?account=".$email."&by=name&timestamp=".$timestamp."&expires=0&preauth=".$preauthToken; 
to: 
$preauthURL = $WEB_MAIL_PREAUTH_URL."?account=".$email."&by=name&timestamp=".$timestamp."&expires=0&preauth=".$preauthToken." &client=advanced "; 

That ?client=advanced stays in the address bar, so it does not look very nice. But no users here care about that. 

One moe thing, do not use REST pre-auth it fucks up the logging of IP's, use the SOAP version: 
[ https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/account-history/wiki/Configuring-Zimbra-Pre-Authentication-for-proper-logging. | https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/account-history/wiki/Configuring-Zimbra-Pre-Authentication-for-proper-logging. ] 

I am also pretty sure that one can hack login.jsp to 100% disable the mobile interface by changing the switch statement 
in there. 

Kind regards, 

Barry de Graaff 
Zeta Alliance 
Co-founder & Developer 
zetalliance.org | github.com/Zimbra-Community 

Signal: +31 617 220 227 
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From: "info" <info at zetalliance.org> 
To: "Frédéric Nass" <frederic.nass at univ-lorraine.fr> 
Cc: "Guy CARRÉ" <guycarre at free.fr>, "David Touitou" <david at network-studio.com>, users at lists.zetalliance.org, "info" <info at zetalliance.org> 
Sent: Monday, 1 July, 2019 08:04:21 
Subject: Re: [Users] The pesky mobile interfaces, how to get rid of them permanently 

Yes, but how can I use the Ajax interface on ipad? 



Kind regards, 

Barry de Graaff 
Zeta Alliance 
Co-founder & Developer 
zetalliance.org | github.com/Zimbra-Community 

Signal: +31 617 220 227 
Fingerprint: 97f4694a1d9aedad012533db725ddd156d36a2d0 


From: "Frédéric Nass" <frederic.nass at univ-lorraine.fr> 
To: "Guy CARRÉ" <guycarre at free.fr>, "David Touitou" <david at network-studio.com> 
Cc: users at lists.zetalliance.org, "info" <info at zetalliance.org> 
Sent: Monday, 1 July, 2019 08:00:32 
Subject: Re: [Users] The pesky mobile interfaces, how to get rid of them permanently 

Hi guys, 

That's right. From Zimbra Support on Feb. the 2nd that "Unfortunately the Zimbra Touch Client has reached End-of-Life, and is no longer receiving active development. Alternatively, you may use the native mobile client instead of Touch Client.". And still these certified documentations... 

[ https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Touch_Client | https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Touch_Client ] 
[ https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Mobile_Device_Setup#Zimbra_Touch_Client | https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Mobile_Device_Setup#Zimbra_Touch_Client ] 

Have a nice day, 

Frédéric. 

Le 27/06/2019 à 14:17, Guy CARRÉ a écrit : 



David,

 you confirmed my thoughs ;)

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De: "David Touitou" [ mailto:david at network-studio.com | <david at network-studio.com> ] À: "Guy CARRÉ" [ mailto:guycarre at free.fr | <guycarre at free.fr> ] Cc: "Naisiew Yeak" [ mailto:yeak at md.com.my | <yeak at md.com.my> ] , [ mailto:users at lists.zetalliance.org | users at lists.zetalliance.org ] , "Info Zeta Alliance" [ mailto:info at zetalliance.org | <info at zetalliance.org> ] Envoyé: Jeudi 27 Juin 2019 14:12:56
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Hi, 

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I think this interface is completely abandoned from my point of
view. 



It's part of the "let's ditch a lot of interesting stuff"
announcement of 8.8.12. [ https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Releases/8.8.12 | https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Releases/8.8.12 ] Zimbra X is supposed to be fully responsive.

David 

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