[Techtalk] email via memory stick?

[Ian Balchin]

Terri & Mike, thanks,

I should have done a google! I have to set up email on the slackware 
box which I didn't do so when that is operational I'll try popping 
the files into the memory stick and transferring them to the mercury 
queue if they look in a common format. Maybe mercury can be persuaded 
to use a separate queue folder on the memory stick even.

The first method has some ideas although he is in effect sending from 
a linux box having transferred his files from his own offline linux 
box via the memory stick via a win machine  to an online unix box, if 
I understand him correctly.

Thanks, I'll post to this thread when I have some results but don't 
expect it this week.

Regards
Anne



Your 04 January 2008 email from Mike Robinson  said thus::

> http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog.php?id=1107301650 seems to have a solution that does what 
> you're looking to do.
> 
> And there's this: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Offline-Mailing.html, which looks like it may be 
> helpful, but less so than the first link.
> 
> for reference I googled for: email sending from offline linux
> 
> 
> m.
> 
> 
> Ian Balchin wrote:
> > 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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