Further dissappointment with Palm apps

[chucklemagne]

To be fair, I'm using the PDA phone quite a lot, and I've found a number of useful items available for free. I'm starting to look at the less expensive of the paid apps that I'm interested in now. But I have to gripe that there's nothing I can find either free or paid that will sync the addressbook on the Palm with the addressbook in the mail

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[chucklemagne]

I may have found the thing. There's a freeware app called PESync that I believe should allow me to sync the Palm addressbook with Eudora. From there I should be able to use a Perl module to convert the Eudora addressbook to Pine. So I'll have a kind of cascading sync going on. I'm not holding my breath yet, to be sure, but I believe this can be made into a workable setup and reasonably transparent once the initial work is done. Big issue with Pine addressbooks is there's no wonderful way to handle extra information in them such as phone numbers or street addresses. But Pine is most convenient for me for remote access since I'm paranoid about opening ports through the firewall. I can SSH in and invoke Pine from command line.

[chucklemagne]

Nope.

PESync is not exactly what one might call flexible. It appears to match entries by the email address. So if the Palm entry has the same name but a different email address from the Eudora entry, it's treated as new. So, kinda useless if, for example, someone changes their email address. Who wrote this thing? Other annoyance include the inability to specify an alias for new Eudora entries (I even named a custom field Alias, no dice), no way to force entries to be treated as matching, no way to edit the fields...