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Mozilla Email & Calendar PDA Synchronization?

Posted by Cliff on from the routing-around-the-need-for-outlook dept.

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?"

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  1. Native Mozilla Address Book - Palm Sync by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative
    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.