1.3 Project Objective

1.3  Objective

The objective of this thesis is to provide an offline email system at rural area that has no internet connection. There are three research questions in this thesis as below:

1)      Implementation: How the user registration page should be implemented and how the store and forward process in delay tolerant network (DTN) supports the offline email system in terms of email connectivity from the offline environment network to online environment network?

2)      Functionality: Can the email data maintain in the mail server for a very long time delay until it synchronized with infomediary device? What is the limitation size of email data which include email content and file attachment? What are the types of data supported when uploading an attachment? Can the email data synchronization process avoid conflict when the email sent and replied from multiple sender and receiver or when the email sent and replied through multiple communications?

3)      Performance: What is the limitation movement speed of an infomediary device when moving through a mail server and performing a database synchronization?