Comments on: ActiveSync Alternative for Linux

By: Guido Diepen

Guido Diepen — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:25:24 +0000

Hi Roger, little bit late reply, but still. Syncing should work perfectly with SynCE in combination with OpenSync. I would like to point out that SynCE-KPM it self does NOT do any syncing, it is only showing the progress and it is a device managing application.

For instructions on how to install SynCE under ubuntu, I would like to point you to: http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceInstallation/Ubuntu

I saw that the link in my original post above is not working anymore (there has been a major harddisk crash at my hosting provider some time ago).

A screencast of SynCE-KPM in action while a sync is going on can be found in the post: http://www.guidodiepen.nl/2008/11/the-lost-screencast-of-synce-kpm-in-action/

At the moment I am working on a registry editor that is to be included in SynCE-KPM. Early draft version of this can be seen in a screencast in the post: http://www.guidodiepen.nl/2009/09/viewing-registry-keys-only-from-within-synce-kpm/

Kind regards,

Guido Diepen

By: roger smith

roger smith — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:34:17 +0000

What is the latest on synce kpm I am looking for something to sync mobile 6 with using ubuntu 9.04

Best Regards

By: Wilco

Wilco — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:00:24 +0000

Paul, try z-push.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:44:04 +0000

Thanks for the guide. I’m looking for a solution that would enable me to run my emails from a linux based email server and have the ability to use the ActiveSync push email technology on my iPhone from the same machine. Do you know of any solution that make this happen?

Thanks,
Paul

By: Atif Abdul-Rahman

Atif Abdul-Rahman — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:06:33 +0000

THanks a lot gdiepen,
I am looking forward to your synce-KPM project over this weekend.
and thanks for the tips.

btw, as i said, this wierd combo worked for me…somehow. Not a recommendation though as ur suggestions seem very direct and least obstrusive.

cheer,
atif.

By: gdiepen

gdiepen — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:57:10 +0000

First, I would like to point you to the latest guide on http://www.synce.org should work for all recent ubuntu versions. The guide you refer to mentions something about patching the kernel, which is not needed at all. In the current ubuntu install guide on http://www.synce.org we show what you have to add to /etc/apt/sources, what you have to do to remove the original usb-rndis drivers present in the kernel and how to create the patched ones.
I am pretty sure that the current ubuntu guide is almost foolproof because I have been going through it with somebody having ubuntu installed and every problem he encountered, I updated right away in the wiki

Furthermore, syncing to Thunderbird will not be possible through any guide we present on http://www.synce.org. There is some alpha version of a thunderbird plugin for the SVN version of OpenSync. The problem is that the only guaranteed by using these both SVN versions is that you will get dataloss
There is a project called FinchSync that will do this, but it works in a completely different way.

Finally, I would like to point out that the latest version of my own project SynCE-KPM (KDE PDA Manager) is starting to look very much like ActiveSync

I know that it has KDE in the name, but I don’t have any actual dependency on KDE itself, only on Qt4.

You can find a screencast of the program in action on my website: http://www.guidodiepen.nl/2008/03/24/major-update-of-synce-kpm-now-even-better-than-before/

The screencast will shown a device connecting, copying a CAB file to the device for installing, creating an ActiveSync partnership and showing the status of an ActiveSync session in progress (Note, synce-kpm does not do the actual syncing, that is done via sync-engine in combination with opensync)

For questions, feature requests, just drop a note on my website.

By: Rosalineez

Rosalineez — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:14:13 +0000

favorited this one, brother