Re: [Evolution] How to keep multiple Evolution desktops in sync

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 12:33 +0100, Patryk Benderz wrote:
> Dnia 2009-12-14, pon o godzinie 10:36 +0000, Pete Biggs pisze:
> > > 1.you have to make symbolic link to ~/.evolution in UbuntuOne folder
> > > which is synchronised, and it will appear in your other PCs. Bad news is
> > > that currently synchronising of symbolic links is disabled, until they
> > > get rid of some problems.
> > >
> > > 2. Second option is to move ~/.evolution into UbuntuOne folder, and then
> > > make ln -s ~/UbuntuOne ~/.evolution in order to keep evolution working.
> > >
> > >   These are only my theoretical considerations, as i had no time to test
> > > this solution. Hope this will help somebody.
> >
> > Be careful.  The information in .evolution can only be guaranteed to be
> > consistent if all Evo processes are shutdown (i.e. by doing "evolution
> > --force-shtudown").  Also, configuration information is kept in gconf,
> > so that won't be synchronised.
> hmm, too bad. I didn't know about that.
> > Yes, copying .evolution is one way to go, but it is not an "official"
> > thing, is unsupported, and is not a full solution.
> >
> > The only real way to keep multiple copies of Evo in sync is to not store
> > anything locally - i.e. use IMAP, LDAP and CalDAV.  It used to be that
> provided that your mail provider gives you one of these services - mine
> gives me only exchange 2007 through RPC over HTTP. So i am stuck with
> forwarding all this emails to my private pop3 account, until
> evolution-imap starts to support RPC over HTTP :(

You could forward them to an IMAP provider (such as Gmail or Fastmail)
and work from there.

poc