This whole issue is best served by using a server.

On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 08:26, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote:
> Synchronization is a concern to users of more than one workstation and
> to users of PDA. What may seem to be two entirely different problems may
> in fact have a single generalized solution, although one requiring quite
> a bit of work : a generic SyncML interface. With that, Evolution could
> synchronize both with itself or with another SyncML device.
> 
> But contrary to Palm devices whose synchronization protocol is well
> understood and for which tools are a plenty, SyncML devices are still a
> rare occurence. So while SyncML for PDA synchronization may seem like a
> waste of time at the moment considering how few SyncML devices there
> are, using it for synchronizing two instances of Evolution could satisfy
> the immediate need of users of multiple workstations and as a bonus
> prepare Evolution for the day when SyncML PDA become more widespread.
> And further down the road, beyond the horizon lies the potential of
> using the Evolution back-end server side... But it's getting late, I'm
> talking too much already and grand visions are cheap while code is
> hard...
> 
> 
> A few links :
> 
> http://zermelo.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~da/teach/projects/pocketpclinux.html
> The goal of this project is to implement a way of connecting
> PocketPC-based PDAs to Linux PIM applications, and synchronize data with
> them. SyncML is one of the avenues they are exploring.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libsyncml/
> This looks like an active project.
> 
> 


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