yes, you can do it pretty easily within a few hours. I run a funambol server on debian for syncing with various nokia phones(some e51, e71, e72) although I have not setup syncevolution on maemo before to operate with it yet, but it should work fine.

funambol provides a binary installer that just installs into /opt/Funambol.

Ignore the funambol wiki unless you want to do a manual install or already have a tomcat server , etc setup.

You sjust download the .bin and then chmod +x and run it

You need to make sure you have java installed first and that is about it.

By default it uses an integrated hsqldb, but you can install jdbc mysql connector and edit db.xml conf file and use mysql(that is what I am doing)

There is a gui admin tool you can use from windows to connect to it.

also, if you do want to change the database to mysql, check out this link

http://markmail.org/message/oqbsvv3raljwezft

for some handy config options to keep the mysql connection healthy.

I wanted to use mysql so i could whip up a quick web frontend for the data as well just in case.