[SyncEvolution] Trying to understand Syncevolution/Funambol interplay

Dear syncevolution community, I just encountered syncevolution in my quest for a scalable solution to synchronise contacts and events between my E71 and the new N900 (Maemo). Eventually I'd even like to offer synchronisation and integration with a groupware suite to a local non-profit, but I am a far way from that. I got Funambol working and synchronised the N900 with it, using syncevolution. I then installed Evolution and used syncevolution to synchronise it, and while it downloaded all my contacts, it seems like a lot of detail was lost. For instance, some phone numbers didn't show up in Evolution, and several contacts didn't have addresses anymore. I think this may be due to the VCard feature of specifying e.g. Home vs. Work addresses. I would like to find out how to track down the problem, but first I need to understand how this SyncML stuff works. It seems like the protocol does not just negotiate data records, but that it actually knows about contacts and the individual VCard fields. And then there is Funambol, which stores individual data with a type ID field that I don't know how to translate (yet). So I am wondering how and why some of the details of the contacts aren't properly synchronised. This means I need to understand exactly how the parts fit and work together. Is there a kind soul out there ready to explain this to me? What docs should I read? Or does someone know why some details are being lost during synchronisation, or even better: how to work around that? Thanks, -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ because light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be intelligent, until you hear them speak. spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net