[opensuse] Sync Android with Linux Options & exclude google
Hi, I have done a lot of searching on this list and elsewhere, about Linux & android synchronisation. The last lengthy discusion onthis list appears to have been around August 2011. My needs are relatively simple, and to be clear from the outset I know I can "possibly" do a sync using google, but I have no particular desire to use them nor discuss the why & why nots! Firstly I have a full home network built on suse and currently v.12.2, My wife & use use Samsung Android galaxy phones and she presently also uses a tablet. At this point in time I do not use LDAP, we started off with kmail, years ago with our own separate address books, and over the last 12 -18 months moved off kmail to Seamonkey because of the need to use distribution lists in mailing, and we had been struggling with the kmail handling, or not handling this. Our home mail is based around a postfix server using fetchmail to collect mail from several external mail boxes, which is stored and archived here. Personal devices access email via IMAP. I am looking to a way to simply keep address books, contact lists, & calendars synchronised automatically ! Synchronisation can be restricted to when the android device is in the home within wi-fi range of the home network, but any additional contacts etc added while away should be synced across the network when the device returns home. Emails, should not cause an issue as I believe imap resolves that synchronisation. The Android devices all use k9-mail. Again, I would prefer to keep total sync management in house, and happy to consider other applications to use on the Android or the suse machines. If it was necessary to use a "cloud" type service I do have a pc I could possibly use, but I would need an "easy guide" to set it up. Any "new year" suggestions welcome, but please ignore the google possibilities. Kind regards, and thanks to the developers for a great platform in suse. -- -- John Canberra, Australia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu 17 Jan 2013 11:32:23 AM CST, John wrote:
Hi, I have done a lot of searching on this list and elsewhere, about Linux & android synchronisation. The last lengthy discusion onthis list appears to have been around August 2011.
My needs are relatively simple, and to be clear from the outset I know I can "possibly" do a sync using google, but I have no particular desire to use them nor discuss the why & why nots!
Firstly I have a full home network built on suse and currently v.12.2, My wife & use use Samsung Android galaxy phones and she presently also uses a tablet. At this point in time I do not use LDAP, we started off with kmail, years ago with our own separate address books, and over the last 12 -18 months moved off kmail to Seamonkey because of the need to use distribution lists in mailing, and we had been struggling with the kmail handling, or not handling this.
Our home mail is based around a postfix server using fetchmail to collect mail from several external mail boxes, which is stored and archived here. Personal devices access email via IMAP.
I am looking to a way to simply keep address books, contact lists, & calendars synchronised automatically ! Synchronisation can be restricted to when the android device is in the home within wi-fi range of the home network, but any additional contacts etc added while away should be synced across the network when the device returns home.
Emails, should not cause an issue as I believe imap resolves that synchronisation. The Android devices all use k9-mail.
Again, I would prefer to keep total sync management in house, and happy to consider other applications to use on the Android or the suse machines. If it was necessary to use a "cloud" type service I do have a pc I could possibly use, but I would need an "easy guide" to set it up.
Any "new year" suggestions welcome, but please ignore the google possibilities.
Kind regards, and thanks to the developers for a great platform in suse.
Hi Have you looked at ownCloud? It's on OBS, android clients on github... http://owncloud.org/ -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop up 3:15, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.06 CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Malcolm, On 17/01/13 11:36, Malcolm wrote:
On Thu 17 Jan 2013 11:32:23 AM CST, John wrote:
Hi, I have done a lot of searching on this list and elsewhere, about Linux & android synchronisation. The last lengthy discusion onthis list appears to have been around August 2011.
My needs are relatively simple, and to be clear from the outset I know I can "possibly" do a sync using google, but I have no particular desire to use them nor discuss the why & why nots!
Firstly I have a full home network built on suse and currently v.12.2, My wife & use use Samsung Android galaxy phones and she presently also uses a tablet. At this point in time I do not use LDAP, we started off with kmail, years ago with our own separate address books, and over the last 12 -18 months moved off kmail to Seamonkey because of the need to use distribution lists in mailing, and we had been struggling with the kmail handling, or not handling this.
Our home mail is based around a postfix server using fetchmail to collect mail from several external mail boxes, which is stored and archived here. Personal devices access email via IMAP.
I am looking to a way to simply keep address books, contact lists, & calendars synchronised automatically ! Synchronisation can be restricted to when the android device is in the home within wi-fi range of the home network, but any additional contacts etc added while away should be synced across the network when the device returns home.
Emails, should not cause an issue as I believe imap resolves that synchronisation. The Android devices all use k9-mail.
Again, I would prefer to keep total sync management in house, and happy to consider other applications to use on the Android or the suse machines. If it was necessary to use a "cloud" type service I do have a pc I could possibly use, but I would need an "easy guide" to set it up.
Any "new year" suggestions welcome, but please ignore the google possibilities.
Kind regards, and thanks to the developers for a great platform in suse.
Hi Have you looked at ownCloud? It's on OBS, android clients on github... http://owncloud.org/
Thank you for that information, I recall seeing that mentioned, maybe in suse news ages ago, but did not really have a look at the time. I will do so, at least so that I can understand what it can do, and thanks for the pointer on android clients. John -- -- John Canberra, Australia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
John said the following on 01/16/2013 07:32 PM:
Emails, should not cause an issue as I believe imap resolves that synchronisation. The Android devices all use k9-mail.
Again, I would prefer to keep total sync management in house, and happy to consider other applications to use on the Android or the suse machines. If it was necessary to use a "cloud" type service I do have a pc I could possibly use, but I would need an "easy guide" to set it up.
Any "new year" suggestions welcome, but please ignore the google possibilities.
Kind regards, and thanks to the developers for a great platform in suse.
I've been looking at Roundcube and others. http://www.roundcube.net/ I'm wary of doing a "Private Cloud" to start with when all I need are the basic email functions that you list. http://www.roundcube.net/about#features * Full featured address book with groups and LDAP connectors I gather there is a plugin calendar module (see screenshots) http://www.roundcube.net/images/screens/calendar.jpg Other plugins at http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Plugin_Repository Oh and it integrates with OwnCloud :-) -- I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. Dwight D. Eisenhower -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Anton, On 17/01/13 13:26, Anton Aylward wrote:
John said the following on 01/16/2013 07:32 PM:
Emails, should not cause an issue as I believe imap resolves that synchronisation. The Android devices all use k9-mail.
Again, I would prefer to keep total sync management in house, and happy to consider other applications to use on the Android or the suse machines. If it was necessary to use a "cloud" type service I do have a pc I could possibly use, but I would need an "easy guide" to set it up.
Any "new year" suggestions welcome, but please ignore the google possibilities.
Kind regards, and thanks to the developers for a great platform in suse. I've been looking at Roundcube and others. http://www.roundcube.net/
I'm wary of doing a "Private Cloud" to start with when all I need are the basic email functions that you list. http://www.roundcube.net/about#features
* Full featured address book with groups and LDAP connectors
I gather there is a plugin calendar module (see screenshots) http://www.roundcube.net/images/screens/calendar.jpg
Other plugins at http://trac.roundcube.net/wiki/Plugin_Repository
Oh and it integrates with OwnCloud :-)
Thanks for the response, I have very occasionally used RoundCube on hosted sites for webmail reading etc, but confess to not having looked at it for our use. I appreciate the links, and it could be a reasonable option for our use. I will have a much closer look at it. One consideration I do have is that I need to do quite a bit of "hand holding" for family users, especially during changes. So the final choice is going to need a reasonably simple user transition! Kind regards, John -- -- John Canberra, Australia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Dne Čt 17. ledna 2013 11:32:23, John napsal(a):
Hi, I have done a lot of searching on this list and elsewhere, about Linux & android synchronisation. The last lengthy discusion onthis list appears to have been around August 2011.
My needs are relatively simple, and to be clear from the outset I know I can "possibly" do a sync using google, but I have no particular desire to use them nor discuss the why & why nots!
Firstly I have a full home network built on suse and currently v.12.2, My wife & use use Samsung Android galaxy phones and she presently also uses a tablet. At this point in time I do not use LDAP, we started off with kmail, years ago with our own separate address books, and over the last 12 -18 months moved off kmail to Seamonkey because of the need to use distribution lists in mailing, and we had been struggling with the kmail handling, or not handling this.
Our home mail is based around a postfix server using fetchmail to collect mail from several external mail boxes, which is stored and archived here. Personal devices access email via IMAP.
I am looking to a way to simply keep address books, contact lists, & calendars synchronised automatically ! Synchronisation can be restricted to when the android device is in the home within wi-fi range of the home network, but any additional contacts etc added while away should be synced across the network when the device returns home.
Emails, should not cause an issue as I believe imap resolves that synchronisation. The Android devices all use k9-mail.
Again, I would prefer to keep total sync management in house, and happy to consider other applications to use on the Android or the suse machines. If it was necessary to use a "cloud" type service I do have a pc I could possibly use, but I would need an "easy guide" to set it up.
Any "new year" suggestions welcome, but please ignore the google possibilities.
Kind regards, and thanks to the developers for a great platform in suse.
I haven't try myself at all, but try to have look at Funambol, at allows a lot of syncing, http://sourceforge.net/projects/funambol/ Or You can build Your own groupware using for example Kolab (based on KDE PIM), http://www.kolab.org/ I think It uses Horde webmail, http://www.horde.org/ (I like it, as it has a lot of functions) and also Funambol. Funambol clients for Android are available for example from F-Droid repository f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=funambol&fdid=com.funambol.androidsync Have a nice day! Vojtěch -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/
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