Mozilla Email & Calendar PDA Synchronization?

jark writes "Outlook is, for the most part, the industry standard for contact management, personal information management and email use in the corporate workplace. We are looking in to deploying Mozilla across our network, included with the Calendar project, but have one last necessary hurdle: PalmOS synchronization. Are there currently any applications that will sync Mozilla mail, address books and calendar events with PalmOS based handhelds? If not, are there any plans in the works for this to become a reality?"

Comments

Re:alpha code

[johnjones]

yes and some more alpha code
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/ABSyncClientD esign.html

but the real deal is
SyncML that works on phones and soon palms that is a nice stable platform for doing this the only problem would be patents but since they dont have any filed in taiwan it does not really matter

http://sync4j.sourceforge.net/ is a big list

regards

john jones

Re:Evolution?

[Craig Maloney]

I tried Syncing with Evolution. It's very good, butn unfortunately it doesn't handle categories, which is a huge problem for me. I did a quick Google search for why this happened, and I found a discussion which slated the categories for the 1.2 release of Evolution. Until that's fixed I'll be sticking with JPilot for now.

IMAP

[obi]

What I do, is:

- I set up a personal imap server. Fetchmail is also running on that box.
- I use evolution to sync my calendar/contacts/etc
- I can use both evo and mozmail to check out my imap mailbox
- I use programs like mailsync to synchronize my palm straight with the imap server.

Native Mozilla Address Book - Palm Sync

[Anonymous Coward]

Are there currently any applications that will sync Mozilla mail, address books and calendar events with PalmOS based handhelds? If not, are there any plans in the works for this to become a reality?

I found some stuff in the Mozilla Status Updates that may interest you:

• May 31st MailNews Update
• • Started looking into the requirements for Palm Pilot sync
  • ...
  • Started investigating the requirements for implementing an Mozilla-Palm Address Book synchronization module.
  • looked into the details of Address Book APIs in MAPI for IPC interaction with Mozilla Address Book.
  • looked into the requirements for implementing HotSync process of Palm used to synchronize data between a Palm application and the corresponding desktop application.
  • looked into the Netscape 4x implementation of Communicator AB Palm synchronization
• Started writing the analysis and requirements document for Mozilla/Netscape Address Book HotSync.

June 14th MailNews Update

• Looked into the details of Palm Conduit Framework
• Looked into the details of the 4x conduit code
• Continued working on the Palm-Mozilla AB sync detail design
• Started working on a simple prototype with a basic conduit and a call into Mozilla AB to open an AB Mork DB in the Mozilla process space from the conduit in the Palm HotSync Manager process space.

The comments in the reports were written by Netscape employees. It looks like Palm sync functionality is in the early planning stages, so Netscape probably want it for Buffy, the codename for their next release after 7.0 (7.0 is codenamed MachV). Basically, it looks like it's in development but it probably won't be available in Mozilla for some time.