On Fr, 2010-02-19 at 15:09 +0000, Bocklage, Jens wrote:
Do you have any plans to add sync functionality for emails, SMS/MMS
and bookmarks? (Always talking of the linux version...)
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.
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