On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 11:33 +0100, Chris G wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:15:19AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 22:50 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I've never had great luck with palm devices and Evolution. Partly,
> > > perhaps, because I'm using versions that come with distros (usually
> > > either SuSE or Ubuntu) and they're never "the latest".
> > I'd suspect the issue is more with the Palm OS version.  pilot-link (the
> > utilities and libraries used by LINUX applications to exchange data with
> > the Palm) had issues for a long time with OS version 5 and later
> > devices.  pilot-link development [around 2005] appeared essentially
> > moribund,  I don't know if it picked up since;  our response
> > [OpenGroupware] was just to drop Palm support from our project when
> > PalmOS 5 shipped.
> > I'm not aware of a good local syncing solution.  I'd recommend taking a
> > look at Funambol myPORTAL <http://funambol.com/solutions/portal.php> for
> > an excellent and *real* Open Source [unlike g...] cloud solution if you
> > are open to that.  Funambol can sync just about anything that has IP
> > connectivity.
> Yes and no.  Funambol (in my experience) isn't an "out of the box"
> solution, it needs a fair amount of fairly knowledgeable configuration
> to get it working really well.  It's also *huge*, several hundred
> megabytes. 

myPortal is a *hosted* version of Funambol.

> In addition Funambol is *only* a synchronisation server, it doesn't
> have any proper desktop client (just a simple test client) so you need
> your [Palm] PDA, and funambol *and* a desktop client that will talk to
> Funambol.

There are clients for both Evolution and Outlook.

> There's still no really neat Linux desktop <--> PDA synchronisation

Agree.

> FWIW my wife still uses a Palm Treo and that works pretty well with
> Evolution, it's not *perfect* but it's quite usable.

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