Ubuntu/Evolution sync with Blackberry Curve

Has anyone found a good (easy) way to sync a Blackberry with Evolution?

The person who answers this one gets a Cookie!

 

Actually I think you better save your cookie for a "good" answer, with good defining an answer that works. I don't think you will get many good answers. There are of course the requisite Google hits for this subject with the most promising articles being;

Syncing your BlackBerry on Linux
How to Sync your Blackberry in Linux

There's even supposedly a promising project for something called EsyncPlugins which expressly state that this will "enable synchronization of Novell's Evolution calendar with the Google calendar and the BlackBerry". But I wouldn't hold my breath. Most of the answers seem to indicate a rather convoluted setup that requires different client software, and sometimes server software, and then maybe you can sync through an external website service provider like ScheduleWorld. It's just that I looked into this some time ago, and with projects like barry, originally designed to only backup the Blackberry databases on Linux, and not sync them with things like Evolution, I didn't pursue it. It looks like there is more support gaining momentum for Blackberry to Linux syncing, especially with the OpenSync project, but I've lost the desire to work hard to pursue supporting something like a Blackberry, which provides me with so little support in Linux, in return.

Kind of how I gave up using Mac PowerBooks in 2005, after working very hard on my own to successfully setup one to work in my office's Windows only world in 1997, and then being one of the only PB users at my office (which meant no IT support). Then successfully using several generations of PowerBooks throughout that time period when MacOS migrated (bumpily) to OSX. Only to see Apple do things like sue websites for pre-releasing MacWorld announcements, or sue some people for posting a pre-release version of OSX to a bittorrent site. That's actually when I made the "switch" back to Lintel. I just didn't want to personally support a company engaged in those practices and don't get me started on Microsoft. Of course the real ugly truth is that there aren't many perfect, untainted, choices left in this world, except Linux. Which is why I'm here..

[Whew..Sorry for getting on that particular soapbox..]

So I switched my phone over to a Nokia, I use their Blackberry client to sync with my Windows Outlook/work email, (and the Windows client to configure it too), and I've switched to Thunderbird as my Linux/home email client. So at some point in the future I'll revisit the whole process of syncing my Linux world with my phone, and since I can sync my Windows/work world with the Nokia Blackberry client, I will be free to sync my Linux/home world with something else that supports the Nokia phone, and not be locked into only a proprietary kind of syncing, such as with the Blackberry. I think that there should be better chance of support for syncing my Nokia with Thunderbird in the Linux world, which is eventually the way I'll go.

Good Luck..

 

Thanks jas, that was my understanding too....I guess I was just grasping at straws I'll keep hope alive