Re: [Evolution] Evolution-list Digest, Vol 44, Issue 17

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 09:33 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > You seem to be labouring under a misaprehension. Evolution is
> designed
> > to work with online services. You are asking it to do something
> > different, to sync calendars on different machines *without* using
> an
> > online calendar service. Can Outlook do that? Or any other
> well-known
> > calendar application? What makes you think this is "normal"?
> Yes, of *course* Outlook can do that!  Just about every single phone
> and
> PDA on the market at the moment offers Outlook synchronization direct
> from the phone to Outlook on your desktop without any other system
> being involved at all.

Not the question I asked. As you yourself point out, Evo can already
sync with Palm devices, but syncing two Evo instances is a completely
different situation. Why? To start with, they're potentially running on
different versions of different operating systems on different networks
protected by different firewalls and accessed by different userids. The
PDA<->desktop is much simpler, not to mention it's clear in this
scenario which of the two is the client and which is the server.

So to repeat: can Outlook sync *two different instances of itself
running on two different machines over the Internet, without using an
intermediate Exchange server?"

poc