Hi, > i have a rather peculiar case involving an offline user, who has no > possibility of internet given his location (satellite is too expensive). > > there is power, and he has computer, and there is a "proxy" -- i.e. > someone who passes once a day in the late afternoon, and picks up a usb > key and takes it back into town to send contents as e-mails. > > ideally, the proxy's computer would somehow sync with the usb disk, as > well as the user's. > > has anyone dealt with something similar? > > with my sincerest thanks How about moving a UUCP spool on the USB stick? ;-) You could use something like rsync on "incoming" and "outgoing" folder. Is it just for eMail? What format are the messages in? Regards, @ndy -- andyjpb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ashurst.eu.org/ 0x7EBA75FF ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
