Garbo's ftpmail server instructions ------------------------------------ What is it? ------------ 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? ----------------- You use ftpmail by sending email to account ftpmail@garbo.uwasa.fi 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 account@uwasa.fi open cd pc get INDEX.ZIP quit Connect to garbo.uwasa.fi and send back the file INDEX.ZIP to account@uwasa.fi 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? --------------------------------- Yes, many. Hear are few of them: ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk ftpmail@ieunet.ie ftpmail@ftp.uu.net Problems? ---------- In case you run in to difficulties, please email to t2r@garbo.uwasa.fi ................................................................. Tommi Rintala, t2r@uwasa.fi, 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