[Evolution] Re: Syncing Evolution

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:26 +1100, Andrew Greig wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I have tried to sort out the gpilotd and also kpilot, as the korganizer 
> has come a long way forward.  But neither Evo-pliot nor kpilot would 
> sync.  I fired up jpilot and it worked beautifully.  I ran through my 
> contacts on the desktop and deleted the duplicates, then I synched with 
> the Pilot and all of the duplicates in the Palm were deleted as well.  I 
> added some Calendar events and tasks and added an extra address, and 
> synched again, fantastic -- perfect, I even caught the fact that it was 
> updating AvantGo (something I do not use due to a lack of local 
> channels).  So I guess the question needs to be asked " What can the 
> Evo-pilot authors steal from jpilot?" cos it works and Evo does not.
> 
> I have been a loyal and vigorous advocate of Evoution since before it 
> was 1.0, I think that 1.2 was excellent, 1.4.6 not too shabby, but I 
> have had more difficulties with Evo 2 than just the pilot deal.  Maybe 
> by 2.5 it will all be OK again.  In the meantime, for my business sake I 
> will have to use jpilot as my scheduling tool, and Evo or Mozilla as my 
> mail client.
> 
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I will second this

I have no problem using jpilot or command line 'pilot-xfer /dev/pilot'
but gpilotd is absolutely deaf to communications on FC3

# rpm -qa pilot-link jpilot gnome-pilot evolution
pilot-link-0.11.8-8
jpilot-0.99.7-2
gnome-pilot-2.0.12-4
evolution-2.0.2-3

# uname -a
Linux lin-workstation.azapple.com 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 #1 Thu Jan 13
16:38:22 EST 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Craig