I agree, any part of the synce documentation pertaining to opensync (or 
similar) should simply explain synce's role in the operation, and leave the 
rest to the other project. 

I figured mail wouldn't be sync'd. :(  Frankly I'm very dissapoitned with 
WM5's mail support. It only supports a single account that must sync with the 
local account in Outlook. It was obviously designed with corporate users in 
mind who's mail account is hosted by Exchange. It turns out WM5's mail 
handling was 100% useless for my purpouses since I access all my mail over 
IMAP. :(   

Using IMAP on my handheld always crashed or worked so slowly it was unusable. 
I bought WebIS FlexMail which is very feature rich and supports IMAP, but my 
handheld is too slow to run it and it often ends up crashing.  

At this point I'd settle for just having the sync program copy text files of 
my mail messages so I could at least read them. ;)

--
Paul Stanisci
System Samurai
Owner & Senior Consultant
2byteconsulting.com
c: 613.301.3134On Wednesday 14 November 2007 12:10:23 pm John Carr wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 11:54 -0500, Paul Stanisci wrote:
> > What about the procedure for configuring the synchronization software for
> > e-mail & contacts (like opensync).
>
> Thats what the "Syncing your device" section will be for, although I
> would to avoid duplicating their documentation if possible. We would
> cover SynCE specific parts perhaps, or provide a sample configuration
> with links to the relevant opensync documentation.
>
> > As a new user, now that my device communicates with my PC, I'm still a
> > little confused about what's involved to perform the syncronisation with
> > my mail program. I realize this is outside the scope of the synce
> > project, but the documentation should list the programs that can use
> > synce for syncing and provide links their respective project websites.
>
> AFAIK, we don't synchronise mail. IMO, by far the best option is to look
> at IMAP. You could probably download mail by IMAP through your PC's
> internet connection. Gmail now provides IMAP... Of course, IMAP email is
> so outside of our scope that its in your user manual!
>
> Syncing your contacts and calendar can only be done by opensync and its
> assorted GUIs and would be covered by the "Syncing your device" section.
>
> I am aware of z-push, Funambol and ScheduleWorld, but they don't touch
> any of our stack and we don't know anything about how they work so
> cannot really justify spending what little time we have trying to
> support them... z-push is probably the most interesting, but written in
> PHP (iirc, others require installing crap on your device).
>
> > Maybe the different sync tools would be mentioned under "Syncing your
> > device"?
>
> Great minds think alike...
>
> > I do agree that the site should have instructions for installing synce in
> > the major distros (Gentoo, Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat/CentOS).
>
> We need someone to step forward for RedHat/Fedora. Gentoo we can
> probably cover based on whats in the old wiki.
>
> > ~Paul
> >
> > BTW, synce.org is working again for me.
>
> Cheers
>
> > On Wednesday 14 November 2007 11:35:00 am John Carr wrote:
> > > Paul: The PPP stuff is under the WM2003 section, because we don't
> > > really support PPP for 2005 devices.
> > >
> > > All: I sat down to try and document somethings for the new wiki
> > > (www.synce.org/moin) where we hope to consolidate everything and
> > > finally switch off the old cruft. I got a bit stuck on my taxonomy, the
> > > desire to be really exact for distros - making use of .debs and such,
> > > and not duplicating too much.
> > >
> > >
> > > **** Idea 1 ****
> > >
> > > So I reckon there are the following sections:
> > >  * Base install
> > >    * libsynce/librapi/librra(?) and odccm
> > >  * Connecting your device
> > >    * USB RNDIS
> > >    * USB Serial
> > >    * Bluetooth PAN (no idea how this works)
> > >    * Bluetooth Serial (no idea how this works)
> > >  * Syncing your device
> > >  * Browsing your device
> > >    * Gnomevfs
> > >    * Fur
> > >    * Is there a KIO slave
> > >  * Adding and removing software
> > >  * Connecting to the internet from your device via your PC
> > >  * Connecting to the internet from your PC via your device
> > >  * Remote controlling your device (KCE Mirror)
>
> <snip>



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