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Horde calendar & contact synchronisation with outlook

Posted: 11 Oct 2008, 15:32
by gavinbailey
Hi - I have a Bubba one which I've been running for a 18 months however I'm keen to achieve synchronisation between my Bubba and the outlook calendar and contacts so that I can view these via webmail. Ilohamail on the Bubba One does not have this functionality. Does the horde webmail client on Bubba 2 do this?

Thanks,

Gavin Bailey

should be possible

Posted: 14 Oct 2008, 10:04
by ahab
Hi,

I've run a search on google and came across the following links:
http://wiki.horde.org/SyncHowTo
http://lists.horde.org/archives/sync/We ... 01655.html

My interpretation is that it is possible to sync outlook and horde, but that you have to go via funambole. Haven't tried it though...

Posted: 15 Oct 2008, 03:24
by trencarbe
Yesterday evening I finally managed to sync both with my Windows based PDA and my Nokia E-series phone.

For both scenarios, I am connected though my WLAN at home. My BubbaTwo is located at 192.168.1.100


For Windows PDA:
it works out of the box with Synthesis SyncML client. Download a 30 days demo from http://www.synthesis.ch/dl_client.php?lang=e&lay=desk

Connection string in Synthesis SyncML:
http://192.168.1.100/pim/rpc.php

Enter horde account username /password.
Enter what to sync (contacts, events, tasks)
Remove the 'sync only 30 days before / 90 after today' option.
Sync!


For Nokia E-series phone:
In the phone, use the built-in SyncML client. Goto Menu -> Tools -> Sync -> Create new sync profile.
Do not copy values from an existing sync profile!

Connection settings:
Server version: 1.1
I've only tried with this setting so far...

Address to host:
http://<external address to my bubbatwo>/pim/rpc.pim
(could not get it to work with the easy name address...?)

Port: 80

Horde user name/password.

Accept all sync requests


Program settings:
For Contacts:
Include in sync: Yes
Database: contacts

The program names are called calendar, tasks, notes, and contacts.

The built in SyncML in Nokia manages only 80 contacts at a time, so if you have about 220 contacts like me, you'll have to sync them 80 at a time...
Synthesis client worked without any problems.


Hope this helps!

Posted: 16 Oct 2008, 06:30
by trencarbe
Noticed that the two-way sync duplicates data on the BubbaTwo side...?!

For instance:
I have 752 notes now in Horde, starting from 32 before the very first sync.
The same for calendar & contacts.

Also the calendar doesn't seem very stable when it comes to sync many recurring events and many other very ordinary calendar items.

Anyone experiencing same strange effect??

Posted: 16 Oct 2008, 06:32
by trencarbe
Another tip:

There's another SyncML software, 'SyncJe' from Nexthaus.
Pleae see http://nexthaus.com/products_b_outlook.html