Sync calander and addressbook: Kontact vs. Nokia

[Peter Lewis]

Hi,

On Monday 15 October 2007 21:23:29 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I use Kontact as my PIM. I need to have it's information with me on
> the go, specifically the addressbook (phone numbers only) and
> calander. How can I sync Kontact with a Nokia 6280? If the 6280 is
> incapable, what Nokia phone is capable?

In theory, anything that claims to support SyncML should work.

I've had some limited success with my Nokia N80 (though it's a cr*p phone, and 
I'm in the process of replacing it), by using opensync. There are various 
opensync plug-ins in the ubuntu repositories, including the packages:

opensync-plugin-evolution - Evolution plugin for opensync
opensync-plugin-file - Opensync file plugin
opensync-plugin-google-calendar - Opensync Google Calendar plugin
opensync-plugin-irmc - IrMC plugin for opensync
opensync-plugin-kdepim - KDE plugin for opensync
opensync-plugin-palm - Opensync Palm plugin
opensync-plugin-palm-dev - Opensync Palm plugin (Development files)
opensync-plugin-sunbird - Opensync Mozilla Calendar(Sunbird) plugin
opensync-plugin-syncml - Opensync SyncML plugin

There are then the opensyncutils and I believe a GUI package too, but I can't 
find it right now (you might also want to check multisync out as it's just 
the old name for it).

However, I didn't find that they all worked completely smoothly. I was able to 
sync calendar entries back and forth, but it would sometimes replace things 
I'd deleted and other times create several copies of everything, which was a 
real pain as I had to go through and delete them all. I actually achieved 
best success by using the "file" plugin as an intermediary between 
the "kdepim" and "syncml" plugins, as there were also issues with caching 
IIRC.

There are some easily findable pages around with the correct settings for 
syncml for your particular phone.

If you do give it a try, and get some success then let me know!

HTH,

Pete.