Evolution syncs!

I really want to sync mail between the desktop and the laptop, now that I have a working desktop. So I gave MultiSync from CVS a shot (requires evolution-devel, openssl-devel on FC). Not bad, it does Contacts, Calendar and Tasks, but no Mail (and really, I don’t use the other features often). Multisync however has a cool Opie plugin, so if GPE is still at the status it is at (haven’t updated my iPaq in a while), I may just reinstall it with Opie for a bit. Very promising software, and when it reaches 1.0, they’ll apply for GNOME inclusion – good.

That said, Evolution is now synced, with the wonders of rsync! Small script kills evolution on both desktop/laptop, and starts syncing the important stuff over. For a ~/evolution of size 1.6GB, it completes in under twenty minutes – thats a pretty long wait if I’m going to do this about once or twice a day. Guess I’ll start deleting mailing list archives, and stop being a pack rat, since they’re usually available online anyways. Oh, and a fairly good guide on backing up Evolution.

One Comment

  1. le savant says:

    colis de l’unité
    Whoever said being an accountant is easy needs to flip the books sometime, it’s hard, and it’s so Very boring.
    Meh maybe I should just pull an Alexander instead.

    Great stuff coming out of the fedora camp.
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