On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 08:30 +0200, mayak-cq wrote: > hi all, > 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? Yes; this is a case for UUCP. If the user is using an inferior operating system you'll need a second box; all that box has to do is deliver mail [from the card] to a mailbox that the user can then download from via POP. The MTA on that box should be able to queue mail easily enough. I'm not away of any client-side store-and-forward solutions for Windows. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
