3rd world usage?

To send email you need at a minimum a phone line, modem and someone somewhere at the far end with an internet connection.

Then you can do UUCP at least!

What connectivity do you think you might have?

install Mutt (non-graphical in terminal) to send to smtpserver and Fetchmail to connect to popserver.

I hear in Cambodia they have/had 'motorcycle internet'. Motorbike turns up once per week to remote village, drops off USB stick with incoming emails, picks up stick with outbound emails. More reliable and cheaper than the postal service. UUCP should cope with that just fine.

Theo

I somehow suspect that the number of roundtrips necessary for SMTP using IPoAC would make it slower than UUCPoM/c, but it sounds like a field in need of further study. Especially if someone else is paying travel expenses.

Theo

Screw that, use Mutt and OfflineIMAP. That way you're using IMAP and SMTP, keeping backup copies on the server side, but your mail still gets stored locally in maildir format.

What's fidonet like these days? Also, there are projects that turn comsumer wireless routers into a mesh. Hamnet is one.

Ron

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Thanks, I tried mutt a years or 2 ago. IIRC it can't: show me my last d/l dir of the server, so that I can mark which ones to get, and to delete, next-time I go on-line.

Like all the garbage today, it also want to be continually on line.

I vaguely remember that when I wanted to 'scroll the directory', it complained that it

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