Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

[Roy Cabaniss <rcaban@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been keeping my home environment pretty much linux only for about 4+ 
years now.  I have a old, very very functional, workhorse of a pda.  A palm 
professional.  The primary use for this is to remind me where I am supposed 
to be and to keep track of contacts.  

I have no problems at all syncing with staroffice and I love the calender and 
todos.  So the palm syncing works.

Unfortunantly, the email client for staroffice, to put it mildly, is 
inadaquate.   So the database attached to star has no real relation to my 
email list.   I have been using kmail as my emailer having switched there 
from netscape.  I also have mozilla 9.9 which I can use as an email client.

What I REALLY want is some sort of integrated thing wherein I can have access 
to my calender and to-do's AND keep an updated email/contact list.  When I 
try to use jpilot, I get a 

pi_bind: No such file or directory

Error and it can't find the palm regardless of where I point the palm to look 
for the connection.  (Yes, I did point the palm at the correct serial port 
and gave the necessary permissions.)

Jpilot just sits there.

I did install coldsync and at least initially coldsync seems to at least 
create and sync with the databases it creates in my home directory.  But when 
I went to add a fetch and dump to kab (the addressbook for kmail), it wiped 
out everything on the palm, which then wiped out everything on the staroffice.

I wish to reinterate that it syncs fine under staroffice.

So how the heck can I get an email client addressbook  to deal with my palm 
under linux whilst still maintaining a viable calender?


-- 
Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss
Associate Professor of Business
University of Arkansas Monticello
http://cabanisspc.uamont.edu/~rcaban