[Techtalk] email via memory stick?
Figaro
ynegorp at charter.net
Sat Jan 5 16:57:24 UTC 2008
Hello, all.
Mayn't this be sdone simply by writing the intended e-mail message as
.txt files to the usb-stick device then place them into the win. mailer
program as e-mail attachments? Obviously, not a one click your done
situation, but not horribly difficult either?
matthew
Ian Balchin wrote:
> Hi, again, and to dj who prompted this reply.
>
> Several people have emailed me directly and suggested a portable
> email client running on the memory stick. The hitch is that this is
> not going to work both on the linux box and the win machine with the
> different operating systems. Wine was suggested, but not I think on
> this particular system which is only an old P200 (I live in the third
> world here).
>
> I think the crux of this particular problem is the standard or
> otherwise of what gets sent out via smtp.
>
> As noted there are always two files per email in my Mercury queue and
> the installed smtp module relays them to my isp's smtp server as it
> is supposed to.
>
> Since the files are sent to Mercury from Pegasus Mail, which is
> itself capable of sending direct to an smtp server, I am hoping that
> the email standard is these two files. Nobody has commented on that
> as yet. Just what sits in a sendmail(?) queue waiting to be smtp'd
> out? Two files per email, or is this something specific to
> Pegasus/Mercury? Any comment on this please.
>
> If so despite the various solutions offered, the prospect of just
> automating the moving of pairs of files off the memory stick to the
> existing mercury queue is appealing in its simplicity. Getting them
> on there should not be a problem if I set up sendmail(?) correctly.
>
> Regards
> Anne
>
>
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