Palm devices and Linux

Need to get my Tungsten E2 working nicely with Linux. Basically, I want to just plug it in, and 'hotsync' to my laptop running Linux.

Problems/issues:

1. Is there a way to integrate with Thunderbird?
2. If not, is there another package which will work (and which provides the features TBird has as well as being able to import the mail/contacts?)
3. Figure out how to get the hotplug stuff to set up /dev/visor with permissions I can use :(

Make it just work...