Garbo's ftpmail server instructions

Garbo's ftpmail server instructions
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What is it?
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Ftpmail is a service for those Internet users who can not utilize an FTP
client software. Please DO NOT use ftpmail if you have a direct Internet
connection. Ftpmail will FTP files for you and then emails them back to
your account.

How do I use it?
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You use ftpmail by sending email to account

[email protected]

You can freely choose the subject line since ftpmail does not check it
in any way. You use ftpmail by writing commands in the body of the
message you send to it. Valid commands to the ftpmail gateway are:

reply-to email-address Who to send the response to. This is
optional (defaults to the users email address)

>>Followed by one of:

help Just send back help
delete jobid Delete the given job
open [site [user [pass]]] Site to ftp to. Defaults are
garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous reply-to-address

>>If there was an open then it can be followed by up to 50 of the
>>following commands

cd pathname Change directory.
ls [pathname] short listing of pathname. Default pathname
is current directory.
dir [pathname] long listing of pathname. Default pathname
is current directory.
get pathname Get a file and email it back.

compress Compress files/dir-listings before emailing
gzip Gzip files/dir-listings before emailing back

uuencode
btoa
These are mutually exclusive options for
converting a binary file before emailing.
(Default is uuencode.)

force uuencode
force btoa
Force all files or directory listings to
be encoded before sending back.
There is no default.

mime
Send the message as a Mime Verson 1.0 message.
Text will be sent as text/plain
charset=US-ASCII
Non-text as application/octet-stream.
If the file is splitup then it will be sent
as a message/partial.

force mime
As mime but force text files to be sent as
application/octet-stream

no [compress|gzip|uuencode|btoa|mime]
Turn the option off.

size num[K|M]
Set the max size a file can be before it
is split up and emailed back in parts to
the given number of Kilo or Mega bytes.
This is limited to 102400.

mode binary
mode ascii
Change the mode selected for the get
command. Defaults to binary.
quit End of input - ignore any following lines.

Example scripts are:

open
dir
quit
Connect to garbo.uwasa.fi and send back the contents of the top level
directory

reply-to [email protected]
open
cd pc
get INDEX.ZIP
quit
Connect to garbo.uwasa.fi and send back the file INDEX.ZIP to
[email protected]

open src.doc.ic.ac.uk
cd graphics/X11/X.V11R5
get ls-lR.Z
cd ../contrib
compress
ls -ltra
quit
Connect to src.doc.ic.ac.uk, send back the file ls-lR.Z in
graphics/X11/X.V11R5. As this is a binary file it has to be transfered
in binary mode. Because it is binary it will automatically
be uuencoded (the default binary encoder). Then change to ../contrib
and mail back a compressed directory listing. Although compressing ls
output makes it binary, which then has to be encoded, it still ends up
smaller than the original.

Are there other ftpmail servers?
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Yes, many. Hear are few of them:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Problems?
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In case you run in to difficulties, please email to

[email protected]

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Tommi Rintala, [email protected], http://www.uwasa.fi/~t2r
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 193.166.120.5
Computer Centre, University of Vaasa, Box 700, FIN-65101 Finland