It took me quite awhile  to seamlessly sync my blackberry with  evolution  on Ubuntu. Up until now, I had to always use outlook  just to keep up with the blackberry, while using ubuntu for everything else. As you can imagine, it was a nightmare to switch back and forth when you are expected to have tons of emails:)

My configuration specs:

• Ubuntu 8.0.4 - the Hardy Heron
  
• Evolution Version -  2.22.3.1
• Blackberry - Curve model

Following are the step-by-step instructions for syncing Blackberry with Evolution on Linux.

Prerequisite: Go to my.funambol.com and setup your blackberry account. Make sure you can sync your calendar, contacts and todo list w/ your blackberry. You will need to download an application from the Funambol site to make it work. Proceed to the following steps only  if your blackberry can successfully sync with Funambol. The following steps are for syncing the evolution client with the my.funambol.com site.

1. Add http://www.estamos.de/download/apt Stable Main to your repository

2. Install syncevolution thru apt-get or synaptic manager

3. mkdir -p ~/.sync4j/evolution

4. cp -r /usr/share/doc/syncevolution/funambol ~/.sync4j/evolution/

5. edit ~/.sync4j/evolution/funambol/spds/syncml/config.txt, set “username” and “password” and choose a unique string for “deviceId”

6. edit ~/.sync4j/evolution/scheduleworld/spds/sources/*/config.txt, set the “evolutionsource” property to either the name or uri of your Evolution database. The config file has very useful instructions.

7. Execute the command  “syncevolution funambol“.

8. If everything goes well, you can put a crontab entry to sync evolution with my.funambol.com every 30 minutes.

NOTE:

Blackberry Sync on Linux

1. Make sure to set the blackberry to sync with my.funambol.com every 30 mins or so.

2. The memopad sync does not work properly - I had to disable it.

3. Make sure /.sync4j/evolution/funambol/spds/sources/*/config* files have the right parameter for the sources and sync option. The sync option should be “two-way” for calander, address and tasks. Also I had to use  the actual filepath as the sources - example:  “evolutionsource = file:///home/username/.evolution/addressbook/local/system“. Running syncevolution without any parameters will spit out the file urls.