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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Lee Forrest wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:30:03PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > A friend just paid $50 for a laptop for his 9 year old and wondered if it
> > were new enough to do email!  I promised him a 28.8K modem and BL3.  He
> > wants to be sure she cannot view porn, so we could put on a text only
> > browser and maybe webmail, unless Lee wants to set up a script even a 9
> > year old can use for POP mail.  We also have 60 DOS games that teach you
> > to type and add etc.

He is coming by in three days to work on it with us.  I asked him what 
software is on it now.  If it has XP, is there some easy way to add BL3? 
I used qemu in BL to run DOS (badly) - would I use qemu to run BL in XP?

If it has ME I can run loop linux.  If it has 2000 we have the CD so I can 
risk shrinking it, but how do I shrink an NTFS file system?

> A script for retrieving mail from a popserver with basic authentication
> (no SSL/TLS, etc.) is easy enough. Append each mail to an mbox.
>
> A 3-year old could use it. After filling in the variable
> arguments at the top of the script (server name, user name, password),
> it would just be a matter of aliasing the script to "fm" (for fetchmail)
> It would use netcat.
> But what mail client are you going to use? Seems like mail/mailx
> (50K or so) would be a good choice. But it's pretty basic. It
> won't handle MIME or attachments or anything like that. Not
> without some serious help.

I don't know if people will be sending photos to the 9 year old.  She 
probably won't be attaching things for a while.  Sylpheed sounds easier. 
With Xvesa or VGA X server.

> I guess you could use that SMTP script of mine to send the mail off
> to their ISP's MTA, if only basic authentication is required.
> (often, none is)
>
> I don't know sylpheed, but if it does everyhing above, and can
> deal with attachments and such, it is a better choice.
>
> Lee
>
>
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