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tamasd:
The development of Palm sync for Barca was stopped long ago while in beta. It perhaps might work with some older models, but I doubt the development will be resurrected under current conditions (approach towards Palm developers, new models/new OS far in sight, and userbase declining). And that's while Slaven the lead developer is a Palm user himself, so the reasons to stop working on Palm sync must have been pretty strong.

J-Mac:
Agendus and Outlook is probably about as good as you will get using a Palm, other than the default Datebook PIM and Palm Desktop.

BTW, Slaven quit on both Palm and Pocket PC/Windows Mobile syncs mostly because he doesn't currently know how, and Poco Systems Pres., Jim Papa, is not likely to add anymore resources to help him. That's the very short version, which is about as far as I'll go with that...

CodeTrucker - It's pretty difficult to lose your messages en masse like that in Pocomail or Barca. They are all in either the Program Files folder or your user Application Data Pocomail folder. Plus it automatically backs up all messages and attachments as often as you select - every time you close the program or every 5th time, which is the default unless you change it.

Of course if you deselect that setting, well...  I'm pretty sure that you value your messages too much to do that!!

When I used Pocomail - about five years of usage - I purchased Mailbag Assistant from Eric Fookes Software. It archives all your messages, keeping the mailbox/folder structure and also archives the attachments with them.  You can archive them as generic .mbox archives or as .eml files.  I always do both. Then you can also perform all kinds of exotic searches, filters, and extractions with the data.  I still use it with whatever my email happens to be.

Jim

tamasd:
Nobody "knows how" when it comes to Palm. If you are doing anything for Palm platform, you have to hack your way through, you learn every moment, new incompatibilities, new bugs, it doesn't come on a golden plate as many are undocumented, it must be learned through the process, no one knows who didn't go through it. And once you know it all, new model comes and again you know nothing and have to hack your way through it.

That Slaven, or Jim, decided not to go through it to the end, is an easy calculation to me: it would bring a negligible if any increase in sales in Barca, while taking way too many developer hours.

At the time in the past when I was subscribed to a non-public Palm developers discussion group, some dedicated Palm programmers left the platform or threatened to, because of bugs in Palm implementations, incompatibilities introduced with every other model, and no clear future (one was almost tempted to say "no future") of Palm platform.

These were people who have drawn 100% of their income from Palm software.

Barca doesn't, Palm sync is just extra, and I wonder if having Palm sync would increase Barca sales even by 1%.  It's true every now and then someone asks for a Palm sync, but it's just a tiny drop in the sea of users.

My Palm is covered by dust, as developers of software I rely on nowadays on Windows, mostly decided to not even bother by Palm and if anything only consider Windows mobile platform in their plans. Sad.

muntealb:
EssentialPIM Pro (PPC/Palm Edition) does synchronization with mobile devices. From the presentation : "Synchronization with Outlook, Windows Mobile devices, Palm, iPOD, Google Calendar."

More info at:
http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=products&pr=ppcpalmedition

tamasd:
EssentialPIM doesn't come with an email module.

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