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On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 09:34 +0100, Andy Bennett wrote:
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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?
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hi andy,<BR>
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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).<BR>
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maybe a secondary pst is the solution ... user would have drag all the contents from secondary pst to primary pst. whatta drag!<BR>
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thanks<BR>
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m<BR>
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