[ale] Syncing a pilot ot exchange?

[Pete Hardie]

On 10/5/05, Jason Day <jasonday at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:45:58AM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > Ok, I have this setup.
> >
> > Garmin iQue Palm Pilot
> > jPilot to sync pilot
> > Linux Laptop
> > Exchange Server with IMAP suppport
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to sync my Pilot Calendar with the exchange calendar
> > without too much trouble?  It would be handy but not something I care to
> > spend 10 hours on.
>
> Theoretically, you can use gnome-pilot + Evolution to sync your
> calendars.  Personally, I've never had much luck with gnome-pilot.
> Whenever I got it to work at all, it was slooooooow and prone to crash.
>
> About 3 years ago, I started writing an iCalendar plugin for J-Pilot.  I
> got as far as writing an import tool to import iCalendar VEVENTs into
> J-Pilot, which turned out to be enough to "scratch my itch", so I
> stopped working on it.  It works reasonably well for importing meeting
> requests, but that's about it.  It's starting to "itch" again, so I plan
> to add some more functionality to it soon.  If you want to give it a
> try, the code is at http://jp-icalendar.sourceforge.net .
>
> Oddly enough, I just posted a nearly identical message to the jpilot
> mailing list.  Deja vu.

Likewise.  I've been slowly working on something to take the email
meeting notices I get in TBird from the corporate Exchange server and
insert them in my jpilot db file.  I'll check out your link - if
you've got the stuff I'm looking for, I'll be a lazy SOB and glom off
that.

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