On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Johnny <yggdra...@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> "Sriram ET." <karra....@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Johnny <yggdra...@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Just need some help getting it up and running on Linux please...
> >
> > Oops :)
> >
> > Outlook support in ASynK/Gout uses the MAPI API (through the python
> bindings of
> > the excellent pywin32 package), which means it was designed to run on
> Windows.
>
> :(
>
> No plans / possibilities to get it running on Linux in the future? I
> guess a bi-directional sync on Linux may seem a little funny,
As I said PST file write APIs were not available earlier, and I have not
checked in a while. This is not a scenario that is of any interest to me.
> but I
> envisioned being able to sync my work contacts, normally managed by
> Outlook, with my personal contacts, managed normally through BBDB. Maybe
> having all (synced) Outlook contacts on a usb and carrying around.
>
How is Outlooking managing your contacts if you are running Linux? The work
flow I have built the application for is: On Windows (where you use your
Outlook), you can sync to a .bbdb file that can be shared through a common
partition on Linux - and access it via Emacs when you boot into Linux, or
keep that file on Dropbox or some such thing. You do not really need
anything else on Windows (not even Emacs or BBDB elisp files). In other
words, instead of carrying around a synced PST, you would carry around a
synched .bbdb file. Does that make sense?
-Sriram
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