Re: [SyncEvolution] Sync functionality for emails, SMS/MMS and bookmarks?

On Fr, 2010-02-19 at 15:09 +0000, Bocklage, Jens wrote: Not at the moment. But if someone is interested in writing suitable backends, we would certainly help. Bookmarks should be fairly easy on the SyncML side, there is a standardized format that is supported by several SyncML servers and probably also clients on phones. There is already a field list and profile for that in the Synthesis XML config. Access to bookmarks on Linux would be harder and would probably be browser specific. For a deployment of SyncEvolution as a server, one can always use the file backend to store items for which there is no dedicated backend. For emails I don't quite see the use case. Doesn't a central IMAP server fit the need? IMAP is a protocol specifically designed for that purpose and does a better job than SyncML at synchronizing emails. For example, with IMAP one can download the header of new email. With SyncML, this is only possible via vendor-specific extensions of the standard. For SMS/MMS the situation is different because they are typically stored locally on a phone and not on a central server. Synchronizing them would make sense. I'm not sure which format is used by phones, assuming they expose that data via SyncML. I think some Nokia phones do. If not, perhaps some of the other Bluetooth protocols provide access. -- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter.