Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-12 Thread mayak-cq
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 18:45 +0200, Lars Kristiansen wrote: > Den 10.05.2011 08:30, skrev mayak-cq: > > > 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,

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-12 Thread Lars Kristiansen
Den 10.05.2011 08:30, skrev mayak-cq: 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

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:55:08PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Now, just in case it is not as crazy an idea as it sounds: could one use > the replication protocol and a murder cluster to actually have a cyrus > "mobile drone"? Don't worry - I'm listening to the thread, and thinking

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 10 May 2011, Andy Bennett wrote: > To bring us back on topic, you'd want to install some kind of MTA that > still understands UUCP and (obviously ;-)) cyrus as the mail store. All good MTAs still interface properly to UUCP support software, and that's when they don't grok BSMTP natively.

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread Andy Bennett
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 >>

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, >> 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? > > hi andy, > > the user is running windows, and has a preference for using lookout. i > suppose tha

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread mayak-cq
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 06:28 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 11:56 +0200, mayak-cq wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 09:34 +0100, Andy Bennett wrote: > > > > i have a rather peculiar case involving an offline user, who has no > > > > possibility of internet given his locat

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 11:56 +0200, mayak-cq wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 09:34 +0100, Andy Bennett wrote: > > > 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 comp

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
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

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 10/05/2011, at 19:26, mayak-cq wrote: > 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.

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread mayak-cq
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 09:34 +0100, Andy Bennett wrote: > 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. > > some

Re: [OT] offline mail user and syncing

2011-05-10 Thread Andy Bennett
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 >