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?
hi andy,
the user is running windows, and has a preference for using lookout. i suppose that i could ask that he run thunderbird instead -- lookout uses a single file pst, so concurrency is really difficult unless the pst file is not the main/default one. at least thunderbird uses file based message store, but alas, windblows doesn't run rsync (iirc).
maybe a secondary pst is the solution ... user would have drag all the contents from secondary pst to primary pst. whatta drag!
thanks
m
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