Syncing Palm Pilot with thunderbird

[dmbtech]

I know this has been asked a million times, but i havn't seen a straight-recent answer. Is there ANY possible way to sync a palm with thunderbird? I know its possible on windows. Is there any conduit plugin for gnome pilot? Anyway to access gmail at all on the palm pilot? Thanks.

[simon_irl]

Is there ANY possible way to sync a palm with thunderbird?

yes: write the conduit yourself!

i'm guessing you mean "any possible way that doesn't involve a huge amount of effort" though, so in terms of *practical* ways to sync a palm with thunderbird, if you really badly want to keep them synced (but not quite badly enough to immerse yourself in code for months and write a conduit yourself), maybe you could look at the formats understood by apps that do sync (jpilot, evolution, etc.) and see if you can set up a reasonably simple procedure for transferring your data to/from thunderbird and that app.

perhaps you could write a little script that converts/copies your thunderbird data into jpilot/evolution/whatever, syncs, and then copies/converts the data back? that way it would effectively be a sync that takes a little longer. i'm sorry, but i don't use these apps myself so can't confirm if such a thing is possible, but it might be worth exploring. given the number of linux apps that do sync, i'd be surprised if none of them are capable of exchanging data with thunderbird.

[nielchiano]

I know this has been asked a million times, but i havn't seen a straight-recent answer. Is there ANY possible way to sync a palm with thunderbird? I know its possible on windows. Is there any conduit plugin for gnome pilot? Anyway to access gmail at all on the palm pilot? Thanks.

do you have any news on this?