Re: need help, pointers, etc

2000-02-24 Thread Bruce McCulley
"Roger H. Goun" wrote: [...SNIP...] I have no idea if anyone's building an open source CS application based on iCalendar. It's an awfully big job, and I note with some disappointment that open source PIMs always seem to lag far behind their commercial counterparts. (I'm still pining for

Re: need help, pointers, etc

2000-02-23 Thread Bruce McCulley
Thanks, Roger! That sounds like it's exactly what I desired. BTW, that was a very impressive piece of work with those details and especially the cross-references!!! Interesting note that what you referenced is actually a generic standard that Micro$oft Outlook implements - makes me wonder if I

Re: need help, pointers, etc

2000-02-22 Thread Derek Martin
Bruce McCulley wrote: BTW, netscape isn't much help, literally. Their help model assumes net connectivity, which isn't valid when the seatback phone dataport costs $2.99/minute plus $2.99 to connect! That makes me suspect that their architecture isn't really geared to the disconnected

Re: need help, pointers, etc

2000-02-22 Thread Rich Payne
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Derek Martin wrote: Bruce McCulley wrote: BTW, netscape isn't much help, literally. Their help model assumes net connectivity, which isn't valid when the seatback phone dataport costs $2.99/minute plus $2.99 to connect! That makes me suspect that their

Re: need help, pointers, etc

2000-02-22 Thread Karl J. Runge
Sorry if this is too `home brew' but that is all I have to offer... I'm confused why fetchmail --keep --protocol IMAP ... run on your various machines won't do what you desire? Have I missed something, that is a fast sync, no?

Re: need help, pointers, etc

2000-02-22 Thread Bill Freeman
The UIDL feature of RFC1725 may be capable of this (syncing multiple clients to a POP server. I don't know the details: I only know what I infer from the fetchmail man page. It describes it, in combination with -keep, as a way "to use a mailbox as a baby news drop for a group of users".

need help, pointers, etc

2000-02-21 Thread Bruce McCulley
I need help solving a problem, pointers to existing solutions will be most appreciated. Suggestions about developing a "roll your own" solution should consider that there is an existing commercial product that addresses this particular problem, and my desire is the solution not the exercise of