On Do, 2011-01-20 at 08:55 +0000, Giuseppe Gerace wrote: 1.1.1 is recommended for running as SyncML server (both HTTP and direct sync with phones). Contacts, events, tasks, notes, stored in Evolution and plain files. The latter is the root cause of your issue. You configured the server like this: syncevolution --configure \ --source-property type=file:text/vcard:3.0 \ --source-property evolutionsource=file:///home/peppe/.evolution/addressbook/local/system \ ${peer} addressbook This means that you are writing inside Evolution's data path, but you are not using the Evolution contacts backend. Instead you create one file per contact inside the ".../system" directory, which Evolution knows nothing about and thus ignores. If you have suggestions how the "server HOWTO" should be rewritten to cover both the "headless server without Evolution" case as well as your "desktop to desktop" sync, then please feel free to propose something - documentation depends on such feedback to become better. You need to configure each source to use the normal types (addressbook, calendar, tasks, notes). Unset evolutionsource to use the default Evolution databases; "syncevolution" without parameters will show you what it would (or could) use. I don't know what you mean with "unrecognizable prints" in the output. if that still is an issue, please provide more information about that. -- 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.