Re: gnus-calendar / gnus-icalendar in Emacs24?

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <unhammer@fsfe.org> writes:

> Gour <gour@atmarama.net> writes:
>
>> On Sri, 2015-01-21 at 22:07 +0100, Rasmus wrote:
>>
>>> BBDB3 is nice.  You may be able to setup sync between BBDB and owncloud
>>> using AsynK.
>>
>> It sounds good, but I wonder about this statement (from org group):"I found
>> AsynK screwed up my contacts." ?

[I think the quote is me.]

Now I remember: I use fields not supported by AsynK, and as I recall AsynK
"tampered" with unsupported fields (maybe by removing them?).  I see that
you have a link to further customization below, so I have clearly not done
my homework well enough.

Sorry about the imprecise statement!  And thanks for clarifying.  I should
give Asynk another look.

—Rasmus

> ASynK does make backups on each sync, though you should probably make
> your own backups as well (1000 bbdb contacts takes 0.5M so there's no
> reason not to keep lots of backups).
>
> I've used ASynK for maybe a year or more to sync my owncloud with bbdb3.
> I use http://dmfs.org/carddav/ on my phone. There was a problem at one
> point when both owncloud upgraded to 7 and ASynK had some change to its
> db format I think, where I had to do a full clean re-sync to make it
> work again, but mostly it's just been doing its thing without trouble.
>
> I don't use very advanced contact field stuff though, just names, emails
> and phone numbers, though you can setup rewrite rules for field names
> http://karra-asynk.appspot.com/doc/asynk/asynk_5.html#Customization

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