[KLUG Members] Re:Syncing multiple evolutions--Bynari?

Bryan J. Smith members@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:38:52 -0500 (EST)


Quoting Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>:
> Sort of, only Bynari doesn't support Evo, just Outlook.  Ximian and
> Bynari seem to have had a bit of a spat awhile back.

Huh?  What happened to their "InsightConnector for Evolution"???

> An LDAP server will allow one to share contacts on multiple machines, 
> but it isn't quite the same as syncing two stand alone instances;  although
> that can be accomplished in a round about way.

With vCard attachmens.

> A directory won't help with calendering unfortunately.

Although iCalendar offers some of this.

I think you should look into Mozilla and its iPlanet-like calendaring
functionality instead (WIP though).  Even Apple is supporting it in MacOS X.  
  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/  

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