[Techtalk] email via memory stick?

[Ian Balchin]

Hi,

I have put Slackware 10 with Gnome on an oldish box for a friend. 
They live 50 miles up a 100 mile dirt road with no internet 
connection.

How can they do email? I am thinking that the emails are stored on a 
flash stick which they then bring to me and we plug it into my 
computer and send them off.

They have to have something very simple to do at their end as they 
cannot cope with technicalities. (Trust me, it they still struggle 
with yahoo email after years).

On my office box I have Mercury Mailserver (a Win thing, with Pegasus 
Mail). I note that each email generates 2 files which are stored in a 
Queue folder before being whisked off by the smtp module. Would  this 
be in a standard format? ie, when any email client has done and if 
the email is queued for later delivery, is the format by then 
standardised.

If so we could copy her pairs of files into my Queue and off they 
would go?

On the other hand maybe we need a matching smtp utility on the 
flashstick, but don't see how this is going to work as we are not 
running on the same platform.

Any bright ideas welcome.

Thanks
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