Ant wrote:
On 6/12/2011 1:21 PM PT, Justin Wood (Callek) typed:
If your concern is privacy for Sync, you *can* use your own
server. (even a local network server if that suited your fancy).
Oh, so I can use my Linux's Samba sharing and FTP setups?
I never tried it myself, but AFAIK you need a Sync server:
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Sync/1.1/Setup>
Wait, isn't this the same as manual copies that I do with v2.x, v1.x,
and previous suite products (bookmarks.html, *.mab, mail files,
etc.)?
No, Sync transfers only the changes you make, and you can select what
should be synced per profile and device (e.g. just sync bookmarks from
one device, and everything from another).
On top of that, Sync encrypts all data *before* it leaves your client.
So no-one except you can read it (or technically speaking, only those
who have the Sync account password and Sync Key), not even Mozilla.
That's why I see no point in setting up a custom server, but if you're
really paranoid, you *can*.
That said, Sync is not able to sync address books (yet). Syncing mail is
pointless, because IMAP is better suited for that. For news and feeds
there was MailNews Sync, which probably could be made work with newer
Sync versions again; it just needs some love.
HTH
Jens
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Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/>
SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/>
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