210507 - Palm Calendar sync

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Michele Della Guardia]

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Nice work with Calendar extension, but it could be great if you add the
possibility to sync it with Palm OS, building a conduits interface...is it
possible ?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[André Dahlqvist]

Related to, but not duplicate of, bug 28040.

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

New contact from [e-mail] to [e-mail]
Filter on string OttawaMBA to get rid of these messages. 
Sorry for the spam.

Comment 3

[Chris Charabaruk]

Should be able to sync on all platforms, not just Linux. Blocks sync tracking 
bug.

Comment 4

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

I created a mozdev project, http://sync.mozdev.org/
There is some code, but no packages. If anyone is good at creating xpi's... :)

Comment 5

[jofish]

Frankly, the sync with PalmOS can wait -- let's get Import from PalmOS working 
first.

Comment 6

[Lucienp]

Disagree with Jofish:  If we get sync working right - then there's no need for
the import...

Comment 7

[Chris Charabaruk]

I also disagree. I'd need export to Palm more than import from it.

Comment 8

[Joey Minta]

*** Bug 258030 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Felipe]

What about taking code from jpilot or kpilot for this? I've emailed with the
jpilot maintainer, Judd Montgomery, and he's in favor of this. (He just doesn't
have the time.)

Jpilot's been around for several years and, in my experience, is quite stable.

Comment 10

[kristian.blume]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Frankly, the sync with PalmOS can wait -- let's get Import from PalmOS working 
> first.

at least with sunbird 0.2 and MacOSX Palm sync was already available (also with a lot of mobile phones) but was removed in 0.3. It was done through iSync and ICal (have sunbird open the ICal Database) 
now open calendar does nothing and importing the ical Database crashes ....

Comment 11

[Joey Minta]

*** Bug 323370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 13

[Adam Katz]

bug 210507 is sync with palm calendar (this bug)
bug 28040  is sync with palm address books (mentioned in comment 1)
bug 176730 is sync with palm to-do lists

Also of interest is bug 121948 (SyncML), which may solve all three of the above (though it appears that PalmOS requires pay service fusionOne to use it).

Comment 14

[Adam Katz]

This bug just got flagged helpwanted.  I think its momentum should be thrown towards bug 303963 (OpenSync support) instead, as OpenSync supports Palm, Windows CE, SyncML, and a zillion other things as noted in my comment there.

Also important to note is bug 303963 comment 9, which postulates that Thunderbird syncing (and given the tb3 path, this includes calendar syncing) won't be really investigated until Thunderbird 4 or so.  That comment has no sources and might be wild speculation.  It may also be invalidated by third-party work, which might make such incorporation trivial enough to consider for tb3 given how early it is in the release process.

Comment 16

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

palm pilot/palmOS platform is dead. Suggest this bug is also.

Comment 17

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Agreed.