[Evolution] evolution and palm

[James LaRue <jlarue jlarue com>]

Just a quick farewell to you all. I gave Evolution my best (under 
Ubuntu). For me, reliable synching to a Palm Pilot (an M505, in my case) 
is absolutely necessary. I ran across, in 2.0, most of the same problems 
that drove me away from 1.2 some years ago. Plus some new ones!

Just for the record:

1. Categories don't come over for my extensive contact list. This would 
cost me hours of work I've already done.

2. Evolution some times DELETED my /dev/pilot file after a Palm sync.

3. Unpredictably (at least to me), I would get in excess of 8,000 
duplicated, blank, priority 3 To Dos. I could delete the duplicate 
entries through dedupe (requiring another download -- pilot-link), but 
they came back maybe three or four syncs later.

4. I seem, about every four syncs or so, to have to run killev, kill 
gpilotd, then restart Evolution to get it to sync again. This when 
/dev/pilot would disappear.

Used ONLY as a PC-based organization tool, Evolution is a stunning, 
complete tool for contact, time management, and email. And it's 
possible, of course, that these problems results from some unique 
characteristic of my combination of hardware. But JPilot continues to 
work, first time, every time, with no surprises. So it's back to old 
faithful.

Best of luck to you all.