G.E.Boyd's How To Do Just About Anything by email - Part 1Index (11 Topics)
Internet Access by emailHow to access the internet by email
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If you are not familiar with accessing the web by email, you may wish to take a look at Gerald E. Boyd's Home Page. He is the author of "Accessing The Internet By email", where this technique is described. This document is also available from several automated mail servers. To get the latest edition, send email to one of the addresses below.
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Send email to: [email protected] (for US, Canada & South America) Enter only this line in the body of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-emailSend email to: [email protected] (for Europe, Asia, etc.) Enter only this line in the body of the note: send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt
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Send email to: [email protected] You can also get the file by anonymous FTP at one of these sites: Site: rtfm.mit.edu get pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email Site: mailbase.ac.uk get pub/lists/lis-iis/files/e-access-inet.txtOr on the Web in text format at: Internet by email FAQ [Table of Contents (Home page)] [Index (Top of page)] WWW by emailIn 1994, Arthur Secret of the World Wide Web Consortium developed an email browser for the WWW that he named an Agora server. Since that time many other web-by-email (or webmail) servers have been developed and put in service around the world. These services provide email only access to information resources stored on the World-Wide Web. The servers enable email only users to simulate the experience of browsing the Web by sending email requests for either text or HTML versions of documents stored on World Wide Web sites. The user sends an email request to an web-by-mail server requesting a particular Web document and the document is returned via email in either text or HTML format. The returned HTML documents are formatted suitably for a text browser. To retrieve a document, you just have to specify its "address", called a "Uniform Resource Locator" (URL). For example, the URL of this document is: http://www.expita.com/howto1.html This means that to get this web page by email, you just have to send email to a server using the proper syntax. A list of email only servers that support web page retrievals can be found in my Email Servers Listing. AgoraAgora servers skip the Subject line and use the message body with the commands to retrieve the web pages. ======================================================================= To: [email protected] OR [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: SEND http://www.expita.com/howto1.html ======================================================================= NOTE: The commands are not the same on every server - some of the Agora like servers (w3mail servers) use the command GET instead of SEND and others just use the URL without a SEND/GET keyword. Send the "help" command to find out how each Agora like server works. When you retrieve a hypertext document from the web, you will notice numbers in square brackets such as [5] next to some special words. Network by UNINETT[5]. This means you may access a new document, hopefully related to the word(s) preceding the [5]. If you are interested in retrieving this new document, look at the bottom of the returned document in the section "*** References from this document ***" and find the URL next to the number. Then, just copy the URL next to number, and paste it in the body of a email message you send to an [Agora server]. *** References from this document *** ... [5] http://www.uninett.no/index.en.html ...
LIMITSAgora servers are limited to 5000 lines. Currently the standard for email is approximately 72 to 80 characters per line so we have between 360,000 and 400,000 characters or bytes. As there are 1024 bytes in 1K we have between 352K and 391K that can be transmitted via an Agora server. Also note that in retrieving binary files they will be uuencoded which increases their size about one-third. If you are trying to retreive a text or binary file from a web page and it exceeds the limits of the Agora or other servers, you may wish to use gophermail instead. The gophermail servers allow the retrieval of verrrry large files. See WWW Files By Gophermail.
RESEND COMMANDOne Agora server supports the "rsend" command which allows you to "resend" the document requested to a different address than the one from which the mail message was sent. This is a handy feature if you are using a different mail server (for instance, your work address) and you wish the mail sent to your normal mail address. I use this feature when I'm at work to make sure the message is sent to my Netcom account.
rsend [email protected] [URL]
DEEP COMMANDOne Agora server supports the "deep" command which is the same as "SEND", but in addition also sends you the documents referred to in the URL you specified. (If the documents are too large, you will get only the first 5000 lines of what "deep" should provide). Be cautious when using the "DEEP" command as the Agora server might mail you several dozen documents!
SOURCE COMMANDAll the Agora servers support the "SOURCE" command which allows you to retrieve the web page with all the HTML formatting intact. In this manner, you would be able to view the web page offline on your PC if you have a web browser program.
BSOURCE COMMANDOne Agora server supports the "BSOURCE" command which is the same as the "SOURCE" command except that the document is uuencoded.
BINARY FILESAgora servers are also able to retrieve binary files from web sites (that is, .gif. .jpg. .zip, .exe, etc). Binary files are uuencoded and subject to the same 5000 line limit. The other servers also have some kind of binary file retrievals methods but are also subject to limits. As before, please see the help files for each server type.
HELP DOCUMENTAll Agora servers will send the "HELP" document if you format your message like: ======================================================================= To: [email protected] OR [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: HELP =======================================================================
GetwebGetWeb was developed by SatelLife, an international not-for-profit organization employing satellite, telephone and radio networking technology to serve the health communication and information needs of countries in the developing world. To request a document from the World Wide Web, send a message to a getweb server with the body containing one or more requests like: ======================================================================= To: [email protected] OR [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: GET http://www.expita.com/servers.html =======================================================================Where url is the URL of the document you request. If the message contains more than one request, separate each request with a blank line like this: ======================================================================= To: [email protected] OR [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: GET http://www.expita.com/howto1.html GET http://www.expita.com/howto2.html =======================================================================If your mailer program insists puts extra, unwanted text at the beginning or end of your message, then you can enclose your commands in a begin/end block. You can also comment out lines with '#', so that in the following message only the 'GET http://www.expita.com/servers.html' line will be processed: ======================================================================= To: [email protected] OR [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: Hello getweb! This preamble will not be processed by the MailBot... begin GET http://www.expita.com/servers.html # ...neither will this comment end ....and neither will this signature: -- Gerry Boyd -- [email protected] =======================================================================
HELP DOCUMENTAll Getweb servers will send the "HELP" document if you format your message like: ======================================================================= To: [email protected] OR [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: HELP =======================================================================
www4mail
A web page (returned as text) ======================================================================= To: [email protected] (OR other www4mail server) Subject: [leave blank] Body: SEND http://www.expita.com/servers.html SEND http://www.expita.com/howto1.html SEND http://www.expita.com/howto2.html SEND http://www.expita.com/howto3.html ======================================================================= A form retrieval ======================================================================= To: [email protected] (OR other www4mail server) Subject: [leave blank] Body: XFORMREPLY = TEXT http://www.liszt.com/ =======================================================================
Others
======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: URL of page (omit http://) URL of page with images (omit http://) Body: [leave blank] ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: URL: http://www.expita.com/howto1.html HTML: http://www.expita.com/howto1.html URL - web page returned in text format HTML - web page returned in HTML format also does https:// (Secure Socket Layer) web sites ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: GET http://www.expita.com/howto1.html DUMP http://www.expita.com/howto1.html GET - returns MIME web page DUMP - returns text web page ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: GET http://www.expita.com/howto1.html SEND http://www.expita.com/howto1.html GET - returns HTML code SEND - returns plain text ======================================================================= [email protected] limits you to 1.44Mb (one high-density floppy disk size) on all files retrieved. Files larger than this cannot be returned. Unlimited web pages returned as text ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [URL or leave blank for multiple retrievals] Body: http://www.expita.com/howto1.html http://www.expita.com/howto2.html http://www.expita.com/howto3.html etc. ======================================================================= Unlimited web pages returned as is, including graphics ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [URL or leave blank for multiple retrievals] Body: http://www.expita.com/howto1.html http://www.expita.com/howto2.html http://www.expita.com/howto3.html etc. =======================================================================
JAVASCRIPT WEB PAGESFor test results of retrieving a Javascript web page by using Agora, Getweb, w3mail, and web-mail see Javascript Test Results.
Results and Comments: [email protected] returned the source and the formatted version by using the "GO" command, neither of which I liked for this test. I normally do not retrieve web pages in source format as I have no interest in viewing after retrieval. I find that results returned by this server are best when using the "SEND" command and URLs are not wanted. This works fine for specific searches and for plain text files. My preferences are toward the type of results returned when using a search engine via email so my comments above reflect these feelings. See the results and determine which ones you like best for yourself. [Table of Contents (Home page)] [Index (Top of page)] WWW by email - Sites with FramesNOTE: FRAMES are currently supported by the Agora and other web mail services. The UK Agora doesn't support REDIRECT, COOKIES or JAVA. Getweb doesn't properly format JavaScript web pages. The instructions that follow for FRAMES should be used if you encounter any problems when retrieving web pages.Frames are a Netscape enhancement to standard HTML coding. With frames - which divide Web pages into multiple, scrollable regions - you can present information in a more flexible and useful fashion. Each region, or frame, has several features:
To figure out what page you want to retrieve by email you must resort to getting the main page in HTML format. This is done by using the "SOURCE" command with an Agora server. The other webmail servers have commands that work in a similar manner. See the help files for each server type. The keyword HTML tags that email only users will be interested in are: FRAMES, NOFRAMES, FRAMESET, and FRAME SRC.
EXAMPLE WWW by email - Sites with FramesSome sites are polite and provide a reference to a text-based page like this one: [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/news.html] If you retrieved the web page by email you would see this message:
UVA Library - News, Weather, Sports
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LIBRARY
The page you chose uses frames to display information. Because some
browsers do not support frames, we also make an alternative version[1]
available.
The [1] would lead you to a reference at the bottom of the returned page that looks like: *** References from this document *** [orig] http://www.lib.virginia.edu/news.html [1] http://www.lib.virginia.edu/newsnf.html You would then construct a new URL and retrieve this page: SEND http://www.lib.virginia.edu/news.html/.newsnf.htmlIf you retrieved the original web page in source code format, you would see the following: <html> <head><title>UVA Library - News, Weather, Sports</title></head> <frameset cols="15%,*"> <noframes> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#0f0fef" vlink="#ff3300"> <center> <font color=003387><h1>The University of Virginia Library</h1></font> <img src="rotunda.gif" border=0 align=centr hspace=5 width=30 height=29 alt=" "> <h2>The page you chose uses frames to display information. Because some browsers do not support frames, we also make an <a href="newsnf.html">alternative version</a> available.</h2> </body> </noframes> <frame src="toc.html" name="a" marginwidth="1"> <frame src="newsnf.html" name="b" marginwidth="1"> </frameset> </html>Now, look for the keywords that I mentioned as they uniquely identify the section of HTML coding that generate the frames. These keywords also provide us a clue to the pages that we will need to receive. Stripping out all the HTML coding that is of no use to us yields: <noframes> <h2>The page you chose uses frames to display information. Because some browsers do not support frames, we also make an <a href="newsnf.html">alternative version</a> available.</h2> </noframes>This is what a user will see when they use a browser that doesn't support frames. The NOFRAMES tag is used to identify what a non-frames capable browser will see. A good web page designer like this one points the user to a link to a text-only page. This message also appears when you retrieve the web page with an Agora server. If you retrieved the page with other than an Agora server, and didn't see the message pointing to the alternate page, you could still construct the URL for the text-based page if you retrieved the source HTML format and followed the directions in the "noframes" section. That is, construct the new URL using the reference to the alternate page as follows: [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/newsnf.html] Let's also look at the section of code that points to pages that a frames capable browser would see. The section we are looking for is identified as follows: <frame src="toc.html" name="a" marginwidth="1"> <frame src="newsnf.html" name="b" marginwidth="1"> </frameset>The section above is another key for email only user and users that don't have frames capable browsers. Notice the two "FRAME SRC" tags that identify pages that would be accessed if you were using a frames capable browser. In this case we could also try to retrieve these pages. So you would construct two new URLs and send these to the Agora or other webmail program. In this case: SEND http://www.lib.virginia.edu/toc.html SEND http://www.lib.virginia.edu/newsnf.htmlNotice the "newsnf.html" is referenced in both the frames and noframes sections.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE WWW by email - Sites with FramesOther sites are polite and provide a reference to a text-based page and include one of the annoying messages like this one: [http://espn.sportszone.com/ipsa97/index.html] If you retrieved the web page by email you would see this message:
Your browser does not support Frames.
The Information Please Sports Almanac requires a browser capable of
displaying frames. You can download Microsoft's Internet Explorer at
www.microsoft.com[1] or Netscape's browser at www.netscape.com[2]
You may have some limited success browsing the almanac with this
link[3]
The link identified by [3] would lead you to a reference at the bottom of the returned page that looks like: *** References from this document *** [orig] http://espn.sportszone.com/ipsa97/index.html [1] http://espn.sportszone.com/ipsa97/www.microsoft.com [2] http://espn.sportszone.com/ipsa97/www.netscape.com [3] http://espnet.sportszone.com/ipsa97/index3a.html You would then construct a new URL and retrieve this page: SEND http://espnet.sportszone.com/ipsa97/index3a.htmlIf you retrieved the original web page in source code format, you would see the following:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>1997 Information Please Sports Almanac</TITLE>
<META name="Description" content="The 1997 Information Please Sports Almanac: Get the statistics, rankings, scores and more. Visit ESPNET SportsZone">
<META name="Keywords" content="ESPN, soccer, sports, football, nfl, baseball, nba,basketball, hockey, mls, mlb, college football, college basketball, golf, tennis, auto racing, Sport, Almanac, sports almanac">
</HEAD>
<frameset cols="160,*">
<frame src="index3a.html" noresize border="0">
<frame src="index3c.html" name="display" border="0">
</frameset>
<noframes>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>1997 Information Please Sports Almanac </TITLE>
<META name="Description" content="The 1997 Information Please Sports Almanac: Get the statistics, rankings, scores and more. Visit ESPNET SportsZone">
<META name="Keywords" content="ESPN, soccer, sports, football, nfl, baseball, nba,basketball, hockey, mls, mlb, college football, college basketball, golf, tennis, auto racing, Sport, Almanac, sports almanac">
<body bgcolor="#FFFFF0" lind="teal" vlink="teal">
<map name="header">
<area href="http://espnet.sportszone.com" shape="RECT" coords="0,0,94,29">
<center><img src="/img/infoplease/generichead.gif" USEMAP="#header" border="0"></center><p><p>
</map>
<FONT SIZE=+1><B>Your browser does not support Frames.</B></FONT> <p>
<p> The Information Please Sports Almanac requires a browser capable of displaying frames. You can download Microsoft's Internet Explorer at <a href="www.microsoft.com">www.microsoft.com</a> or Netscape's browser at <a href="www.netscape.com">www.netscape.com</a>
<p><a href=http://espnet.sportszone.com/ipsa97/index3a.html> You may have some limited success browsing the almanac with this link</a>
<center><img src="/img/infoplease/genericfoot.gif"></center>
</noframes>
</HTML>
Again let's look at the section of code that points to pages that a frames capable browser would see. The section we are looking for is identified as follows: <frame src="index3a.html" noresize border="0"> <frame src="index3c.html" name="display" border="0"> </frameset>You would then construct a new URL and retrieve these pages: SEND http://espn.sportszone.com/ipsa97/index3a.html SEND http://espn.sportszone.com/ipsa97/index3c.html
ANOTHER EXAMPLE WWW by email - Sites with FramesOther sites are polite but don't provide a reference to a text-based page like this one: [http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~esslli97/] So we must retrieve the original web page in source code format to figure out the real page to retrieve. Getting the home page in source HTML format you would see the following:
<html>
<head>
<title>ESSLLI'97</title>
<meta name="description" content="9th European Summer School in Logic,
Language and Information, August 11-22 1997, Aix-en-Provence (France).">
</head>
<frameset cols=20%,80% border=0>
<frame src=toc-en.html name=toc>
<frame src=main-en.html name=main>
</frameset>
<!------------------------------------------------------------------>
<!------------------------------------------------------------------>
<!-------- Pour les navigateurs ne supportant pas les frames ------->
<!------------------------------------------------------------------>
<!------------------------------------------------------------------>
<noframes>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<br>
<br>
Your browser does not seem to support frames which are extensively used
on this site... If you wish to access this site, you'd better download
<a href="http://home.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/client_download.html">
Netscape
</a>
or
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/ie/download/">
Microsoft Internet Explorer
</a>
<p>
</body>
</html>
</noframes>
</html>
Stripping out all the code that doesn't apply to us we have:
<noframes> Your browser does not seem to support frames which are extensively used on this site... If you wish to access this site, you'd better download <a href="http://home.netscape.com/comprod/mirror/client_download.html"> Netscape </noframes>The NOFRAMES tag is used to identify what a non-frames capable browser will see. This message also appears when you retrieve the web page with an Agora server. A good web page designer would point you to a text-based page but this one didn't. So now we have to look at the section of code that points to pages that a frames capable browser would see. The section we are looking for is identified as follows:
<frameset cols=20%,80% border=0>
<frame src=toc-en.html name=toc>
<frame src=main-en.html name=main>
</frameset>
The section above is the key for email only user and users that don't
have frames capable browsers. Notice the two "FRAME SRC" tags that
identify pages that would be accessed if you were using a frames capable
browser. These are the pages the email only user needs to retrieve.
So you must construct two new URLs and send these to the Agora or other webmail program. In this case: SEND http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~esslli97/toc-en.html SEND http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~esslli97/main-en.html
ANOTHER EXAMPLE WWW by email - Sites with FramesOthers sites return a blank page like this site: [http://www.kochind.com/kochind/WHO_FRAMESET.HTM] Getting the home page in source HTML format you would see the following:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; iso-8859-1">
<TITLE>WHO WE ARE FRAMESET</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET COLS="200,*" frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
<FRAME SRC="WHO_NAVIGATION.HTM" NAME="WHO WE ARE NAVIGATION FRAME"
NORESIZE>
<FRAMESET ROWS="165,*" frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
<FRAME SRC="WHO_BANNER.HTM" NAME="WHO WE ARE BANNER FRAME" NORESIZE>
<FRAME SRC="WHO_CONTENT.HTM" NAME="WHO WE ARE CONTENT FRAME"
NORESIZE>
</FRAMESET>
<NOFRAMES>
<body link="#0080FF" vlink="#800080">
</body>
</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
In all cases you can construct a web page to retrieve via email if you know how to work with the HTML coding, understand FRAMESET and/or FRAME SRC commands. In this example, we do the same as we did in the other examples, that is, locate the FRAME SRC lines:
<FRAMESET COLS="200,*" frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
<FRAME SRC="WHO_NAVIGATION.HTM" NAME="WHO WE ARE NAVIGATION FRAME"
NORESIZE>
<FRAMESET ROWS="165,*" frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
<FRAME SRC="WHO_BANNER.HTM" NAME="WHO WE ARE BANNER FRAME" NORESIZE>
<FRAME SRC="WHO_CONTENT.HTM" NAME="WHO WE ARE CONTENT FRAME"
NORESIZE>
</FRAMESET>
So you must construct two new URLs and send these to the Agora or other webmail program. In this case: SEND http://www.kochind.com/kochind/WHO_NAVIGATION.HTM SEND http://www.kochind.com/kochind/WHO_CONTENT.HTM SEND http://www.kochind.com/kochind/WHO_BANNER.HTMIn this case, the first and second newly constructed URLs return the page we desire while the third one returns a blank page. You always should try to find the NOFRAMES lines. Intelligent web page designers will have a proper URL for a no frames version. Bad web page designers (now in the majority!) will have an annoying or obnoxious message in this area. If the NOFRAMES section is missing, then construct the proper URL from the FRAME SRC lines. NOTE: If any of these other pages use frames, you will have to get the "SOURCE" and do this all over again, page by page. Generally speaking, once you get past the first page you are usually OK and don't have to do this again. [Table of Contents (Home page)] [Index (Top of page)] WWW Search Engines by emailThe Internet has millions of web sites with an exponential growth rate. To find the proverbial "needle in a haystack" Internet search engines were developed. All search engines do keyword searches against a database of web sites, but various factors influence the results from each. Size of the database, frequency of update, search capability and design, and speed lead to a different results. Currently, the majority of searches are done on the Internet using a browser program and one of the major search engines. As an email only user, the question arises "How can I search the Internet Using email?" To answer the question, in late 1995 I started spending an enormous amount of time trying to do exactly this. I started looking at the HTML source code of the search engine, at RFC 1866 which specified HTML 2.0 standards and how the HTML coding is supposed to be interpreted by the browser and the server, and also the results returned from the search. In early 1996 I began posting a series of email only search engine FAQs on how to use email to access the web-based search engines via an Agora server. I also showed in a FAQ (wscrack.faq) how other users could do the same and the methods I used. However, with the introduction of Getweb servers in late 1997, I have spent less and less time revising and working on these documents. The Getweb servers make it extremely easy to use a form-based search engine. Here are some sample queries that you can send to an Agora or other type server. Replace the "SPAM" with your search phrase. Separate words with a plus sign ("+") instead of blanks. For details and other options be sure read the help files. AltaVista SEND http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=SPAM\ &kl;=XX&pg;=q&Translate;=on CNET Search (was SavvySearch) SEND http://www.search.com/search?channel=1&tag;=st.se.fd..sch&q;=SPAM DejaNews SEND http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/qs.xp?ST=PS&svcclass;=dnyr\ &firstsearch;=yes&show;_preserve=on&QRY;=SPAM\ &defaultOp;=AND&DBS;=1&OP;=dnquery.xp&LNG;=english\ &subjects;=&groups;=&authors;=&fromdate;=\ &todate;=&showsort;=score&maxhits;=25\ DogPile SEND http://search.dogpile.com/texis/search?q=SPAM\ &geo;=no&refer;=dp-search&fs;=web Excite SEND http://search.excite.com/search.gw?search=SPAM GO (was InfoSeek) SEND http://www.go.com/Titles?col=WW&qt;=SPAM\ &svx;=home_searchbox&sv;=IS&lk;=noframes Google SEND http://www.google.com/search?q=SPAM&btnG;=Google+Search HotBot (part of Lycos) SEND http://hotbot.lycos.com/?MT=SPAM&SM;=MC&DV;=0&LG;=any&DC;=10&DE;=2 InFind (was Inference) SEND http://www.infind.com/infind/infind.exe?query=SPAM&time;=7 Lycos SEND http://www.lycos.com/srch/?lpv=1&loc;=searchhp&query;=SPAM MetaCrawler SEND http://search.metacrawler.com/crawler?general=SPAM\ &method;=0&redirect;=web&rpp;=20&hpe;=10®ion;=0&timeout;=0\ &sort;=0&format;=beta99&theme;=classic&refer;=mc-search WebCrawler SEND http://www.webcrawler.com/cgi-bin/WebQuery?searchText=SPAM Yahoo SEND http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=SPAMNOTE: The "\" at the end of a line is used as a continuation character to show that the line continues on the next line. Not all Agora or other servers accept this. See the help files for further information. Search request ======================================================================= To: [email protected] (OR other Agora server) Subject: [leave blank] Body: SEND http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=SPAM ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To: [email protected] (OR other Getweb server) Subject: request Body: GET http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=SPAM ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: URL: http://www.liszt.com/cgi-bin/liszt.cgi?word=canada&junk;=s&an;=all URL: http://www.liszt.com/cgi-bin/liszt.cgi?word=philately&junk;=s&an;=all URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=win+98+shutdown+problems URL: http://www.mit.edu:8001/[email protected] URL: http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=SPAM ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: DUMP http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?qL=philately%2C+diving&F;=L&F;=T DUMP http://www.liszt.com/cgi-bin/liszt.cgi?word=philately&junk;=s&an;=all DUMP http://www.liszt.com/cgi-bin/liszt.cgi?word=canada&junk;=s&an;=all DUMP http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=SPAM ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: SEND http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=SPAM ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To: [email protected] (OR other www4mail server) Subject: [leave blank] Body: GET http://www.google.com/search?q=SPAM#=100&sa;=Google+Search SEND http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=SPAM ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: http://www.google.com/search?q=SPAM http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=SPAM etc. ======================================================================= [Table of Contents (Home page)] [Index (Top of page)] FTP by email (FTPmail)FTP stands for "file transfer protocol", and is a means of accessing files that are stored on remote computer systems (sites). Files at FTP sites are typically stored in a tree-like set of directories each of which pertains to a different subject. Using FTP by email requires that the desired site be reached through a special "ftpmail server" which logs on to the remote site and returns the requested files to you in response to a set of commands you issue in an email message. To use FTP by email, you first need a list of FTP "sites" which are the addresses of the remote computer systems that allow you to retrieve files anonymously. Anonymous FTP means that you can access a site without having an account on that site (i.e. you don't have to be an authorized user of the system). NOTE: It is a privilege and not a right to allow anonymous FTP. The person responsible for the site can shut it down at any time without you having any control over it.
FTP SITE LISTYou you can get a comprehensive list of hundreds of anonymous FTP sites as follows: Send email to: [email protected] and include these lines in the body of the note. send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/part1 send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/part2 ... (lines omitted for brevity) ... send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/part23You can also get the files this way: send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist/*where the asterisk ('*') implies all parts. You can also get the files by anonymous FTP at one of these sites: Anonymous FTP to rtfm.mit.edu and getting all the files from the /pub/usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/sitelist directory for the sitelist and /pub/usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/faq for the FAQ List (ASCII files) Anonymous FTP to garbo.uwasa.fi and getting the file /pc/doc-net/ftp-list.zip Anonymous FTP to ftp.simtel.net and getting the file /pub/simtelnet/msdos/info/ftp-list.zip Anonymous FTP to ftp.coast.net and getting the file /pub/msdos/info/ftp-list.zipYou will then receive (by email) 23 files which comprise the "FTP Site List". Note that these files are each about 60K, so the whole lot will total over a megabyte!
FTP FAQAnother file you might want to get is "FTP Frequently Asked Questions" which contains lots more info on using FTP services. Send email to: [email protected] and include this line in the body of the note. send usenet/news.answers/ftp-list/faqAfter you receive the site list you'll see hundreds of entries like this, which tell you the site name, location and the kind of files that are stored there. Site : ftp.cs.wisc.edu Country: USA GMT : -6 Date : 23-Jul-95 Source : mail Alias : fyvie.cs.wisc.edu Admin : [email protected] Organ : University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, CS dept. Server : System : Unix URL : ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ Comment: server can (de)compress, tar files and directories; RoadMap contains list of directories; files from shorty.cs.wisc.edu Files : 007; afs-tools; AIX; Approximation Theory; bolo; CDIFF; computer-vision; condor; connectivity table; coral; Exodus; galileo; ghost; goodman; HP; list-archives; machine learning; markhill; math prog; mcplib; Novell; par-distr-sys; paradise; shore; sohi; spim; spimsal; swartz; tech-reports; Ultimate Frisbee files; UW; warts; wisc; wwt; X; xunet
EXAMPLE FTPMAIL RETRIEVALIf you find an interesting FTP site in the list, send email to one of these ftpmail servers: First off you need the name of an FTP site to send the email to. In this example, I am going to FTP to oak.oakland.edu -- the largest Simtel site. I will use the site closet to me, [email protected]. It doesn't really matter which one you choose, but a server that is geographically close may respond more quickly. Send email to: [email protected] (United States) Now in the body of the note we will start with the commands to get a list of files from the oak.oakland.edu FTP site. open oak.oakland.edu -- point to the FTP site dir -- get a directory listing get README -- almost every site has one - this one does quit -- go home !!!NOTE: You can also try the "get" on the following names: README, README.NEWS, README.txt, README.COPYRIGHT, 0Readme, 00Readme, 0Newest.100, welcome, welcome.msg, .message, last100uploads, 00_index.txt, DIRLIST.TXT, FILES.IDX, because the sites usually contain at least one of these names in the directory structure. These similarly named files usually give a description of the files found at the FTP site. If you're just exploring and your "dir" reveals one of these filenames, do a "get" on the file and save yourself some time in the future. By returned mail you will get a listing of the root directory (from the dir command) and some information about this site (from the README). This is the result of the "dir" command. How do you read these Unix style directory listings? The first byte of the first column tells you what type of file it is: d : directory - : file l : a link to another file or directoryFollowing that are 9 letters indicating the permissions. The first three are permissions for "the owner", the second three for "the group" and the last three for "the world". The access permissions are r=read, w=write, and x=execute. A dash ("-") means the permission is not granted.
The following combinations are possible: "---" (no permissions) "r--" (read-only) "-w-" (write-only, very rare) "--x" (execute) "rw-" (read and write) "r-x" (read and execute) "-wx" (write and execute, very rare) "rwx" (read, write and execute)The second column is the number of links to the file. The next 2 columns are the owner and user group to which the file belongs (these can be numeric). The next 2 columns are the file size and last modification date and optional time.
The last column is the name of the file or directory or a link.
The "->" characters indicate a link. (This is like an alias, and is
often used to provide a shortcut to a file buried several subdirectories
deep - it saves keying). The links also are identified in byte 1 of
the first column - (l=link). A link can refer to either a directory or
a file. So, looking at this line: -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 1498680 Jun 2 03:19 Index-byname
This is a file, ("-") in first byte of column 1
The owner has read and write permission (rw- , he'd better!)
The group has read permission only (r--)
The world has read permission only (r--)
There is 1 link to the file
The owner is ftpuser
The user group is ftpusers
The file size is 1498680 bytes
The date of last modification is Jun 02, 1999 at 03:19 local time
If there is no year shown, then it's the current year -- usually
The file name is Index-byname (which implies a text file and typically
is a complete listing of all files in all directories). The most
common of these names is 00index.txt
And looking at this line:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftpuser ftpusers 7 Apr 6 1998 irc -> pub/irc
This is a link, ("l") in first byte of column 1
The owner has read, write, and execute permission (rwx)
The group has read, write, and execute permission (rwx)
The world has read, write, and execute permission (rwx)
There is 1 link to the file
The owner is ftpuser
The user group is ftpusers
The link size is 7 bytes (the actual number of characters in the link
name - pub/irc)
The date of last modification is Apr 06, 1998
(no time because a year is shown)
The file name irc refers to a link in a lower lever directory where
the file is actually located. i.e., oak.oakland.edu/pub/irc
This is the result of the "get README" command.
======================================================================= Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:04:41 EST From: Princeton BITNET FTP Server <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: README Welcome to OAK.Oakland.Edu THE OAK SOFTWARE REPOSITORY A service of Oakland University, Rochester Michigan OAK.Oakland.Edu is a primary mirror of Simtel.Net, Keith Petersen's world-wide distribution network for Shareware, Freeware, and Public Domain programs for MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows 95. To access, cd to /pub/simtelnet. If you would like to subscribe to a mailing list that announces new uploads to the Simtel.Net collections see ms-news.txt in subdirectory 00_info in any of the directories under /pub/simtelnet. All MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and Windows 95 files have been checked for viruses with the latest virus scanning programs available at the time of upload. Reasonable care has been taken for your protection but Oakland University does not certify this software to be free of viruses, trojans or bugs. Use at your own risk. Changes in the directory heirarchy of the OAK Software Repository are in progress. The cpm, cpmug, hamradio, hz100, macintosh, misc, pc-blue, sigm, unix-c, and zsys collections are available under the /pub directory. Please change to the /pub directory to access these collections. World Wide Web (WWW) users can access files on OAK.Oakland.Edu via the URL http://www.acs.oakland.edu/oak/ If you have access to a Gopher client, this repository is also accessable through Gopher.Oakland.Edu. =======================================================================In your next email message you can navigate to other directories by inserting (for example) chdir pub (use "cd" if "chdir" doesn't work)before the "dir" command. (The "chdir" means "change directory" and "pub" is a common directory name, usually a good place to start.) Once you determine the name of a file you want to retrieve, use: get [name of file]in the following note instead of the "dir" command. If the file you want to retrieve is plain text, this will suffice. If it's a binary file (an executable program, compressed file, etc.) you'll need to insert the command: binaryin your note before the "get" command. NOTE: By default, file transfers assume that the files are plain ASCII text. The word binary above was to denote that the file is an executable program. Use binary to transfer .exe, .zip, .gif, .jpg, .wav, .hqx. .sit. .com, and other such files that are not plain text ASCII files. Remember that you can't just send email to ftpmail@[anysite], rather you send the "open [site]" command to one of the known ftpmail servers. Notes:
If the file that is returned to you ends up looking something like what you see below, (the word "begin" with a number and the filename on one line, followed by a number of 61-character lines) it most likely is a binary file that has been "uuencoded" by the sender. (This is required in order to reliably transmit binary files by email.)
begin 666 answer2.zip
M4$L#!`H`!@`.`/6H?18.$-Z$F@P```@?```,````5$5,25@S,34N5%A480I[
M!P8;!KL,2P,)!PL).PD'%@.(!@4.!P8%[email protected]%PL*!@@*.P4.%00.%P4*.`4.
You'll need a version of the "uudecode" program for your operating
system (DOS, OS/2, Unix, Mac, etc.) in order to reconstruct the file.
Most likely you'll find a copy already at your site or in your service
provider's download library, but if not you can use the instructions in
the next section to find out how to search FTP sites for a copy.
To learn how to uudecode any type of uuencoding you may receive in an email message, see UUdecoding email.
MORE EXAMPLE FTPMAIL RETRIEVALSOK, let's assume that you want the PKZIP program and somebody has notified you that it is available via FTP to oak.oakland.edu in the directory /SimTel/msdos/zip/ as file name pkz204.exe. How do you get this file? Send email to: [email protected] (United States) Now in the body of the note we will list the commands to get the file we are interested in. open oak.oakland.edu -- point to the FTP site chdir SimTel/msdos/zip -- change to the directory where the file is binary -- because it's an executable program get pkz204g.exe -- get our file quit -- we are done here !!Another example. You want to get a program "available at ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/info/mac-errors-121.hqx." What do you write as a message? Where do you send it? Assume you are living in Africa. Send email to: [email protected] (Taiwan site -- closest to Africa) Now in the body of the note we will list the commands to get the file we are interested in. open mirrors.aol.com -- point to the FTP site chdir pub/info-mac/info -- change to the directory where the file is binary -- because it's an MAC format get mac-errors-121.hqx -- get our file quit -- we are done here !!Another example. You want to get a listing of the Garbo archives at ftp.funet.fi What do you write as a message? Where do you send it? Assume you are living in Germany. Send email to: [email protected] (Germany -- site closest to Germany) Now in the body of the note we will list the commands to get a file listing. open ftp.funet.fi -- point to the FTP site dir -- get a directory listing get README -- almost every site has one - this one does quit -- go home !!!A simpler method for the Garbo archives at ftp.funet.fi Send email to: [email protected] (the actual home of Garbo) Now in the body of the note we will list the commands to get a file listing. open -- point to local directory dir -- get a directory listing get README -- almost every site has one - this one does quit -- go home !!!By returned mail you will get a listing of the root directory (from the dir command) and some great information about this site (from the README). NOTE: Notice that because we are getting a plain ASCII text file, the word "binary" was not used before the "get" statement. Suppose you are an OS/2 user and somebody said that there is a PM mail program available at FTP site ftp.simtel.net in the directory pub/os2/internet and that the file name is pmm196a.zip Suppose you want to use ftpmail to a BITNET FTP mail site to retrieve this file. What are the commands? Send email to: [email protected] (United States) with the following lines in the body of the note: open ftp.simtel.net -- open the site where the file is located cd pub/os2/internet -- change to the proper directory binary -- it's a binary file; use ASCII for text files get pmm196a.zip -- get the file you want quit -- you're done hereYou will then receive back 38 uuencoded files that can be uudecoded to re-assemble the file "pmm196a.zip" Suppose you don't want 38 files but would like to get it in one big uuencoded file? Send email to: [email protected] (United States) with the following lines in the body of the note: open ftp.simtel.net -- open the site where the file is located chunksize 0 -- get one "big" uuencoded file cd pub/os2/internet -- change to the proper directory binary -- it's a binary file; use ASCII for text files get pmm196a.zip -- get the file you want quit -- you're done hereNOTE: chunksize command *ONLY* works at BITNET (bitftp) ftpmail sites. Also, chunksize=0 will only allow a maximum of 4.24Mb uuencoded to be sent in a single message. So files larger than 3Mb will be divided into approximate 4Mb uuencoded pieces. i.e. if you request a 12Mb file, you will receive a 4 part message of approximately 4Mb each. You will receive back 1685315 bytes in one "huge" uuencoded file. General rules for using bitftp ftpmailers to get one large uuencoded file. open [ftp site] -- open the site where the file is located chunksize 0 -- get one "big" uuencoded file cd [directory path] -- change to the proper directory binary -- it's a binary file; use ASCII for text files get [some.zip] -- get the file you want quit -- you're done here[Table of Contents (Home page)] [Index (Top of page)] FTPmail by PartsLet's assume you read about two files that you might be interested in downloading: Paint Shop Pro version 5.03 Win 95/98/NT psp501ev.zip 7M Paint Shop Pro version 3.12 Win 3.x psp311a.zip 2M Paint Shop Pro is a complete image creation and manipulation program that enhances the imaging power of business and home users with unrivaled ease of use, speed and affordable functionality. WinZip v7.0 for Windows 95/98/NT wz32v701.exe 922K WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to the use of Zip files and other archive and compression formats. The optional wizard interface makes unzipping easier than ever. WinZip features built-in support CAB files and for popular Internet file formats such as TAR, gzip, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs. WinZip interfaces to most virus scanners.In order to download files from ftp sites that exceed the limitations of your mailserver (such as Juno email) or mail program we need the capability of limiting the size of the mail message that you receive and be able to split the file into parts and have the ftpmail server send the file by parts or send you missing parts or perhaps just send a few parts at a time. The following ftpmail servers will do this: [email protected] - mirrors 86 sites send parts, splits mail, resend missing parts [email protected] - mirrors 12 sites send parts, splits mail, resend missing parts These two work in much the same manner: [email protected] - mirrors 4 sites splits mail, resend missing parts [email protected] - mirrors 32 sites splits mail, resend missing parts However, each of these is a local FTP mailserver. What does this mean? It means they only retrieve files from their site and no other. In other words, you can't use an "open" command to open another remote ftp site. This causes problems unless they "mirror" some of the other major ftp sites. I will also show to overcome this obstacle. In addition, each of the above listed servers implements the "parts" differently. In the examples following, I will show how each site and set of commands work. The examples I use herein will show you how to download files of varying sizes. However, the methods can be used to download files of any size. Let's start with [email protected] and look at the revelant portions of the help file. You can obtain the help file by sending a message to: To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: helpYou will be returned with a document that looks (in part) like:
...
Fileserver functions
...skip portions for brevity...
PARTSIZE [sizeexpr] Delivery partitioning mechanism.
(Command alias: SIZE) (Default: 65k, max: 1M. READ THE DOC!)
PARTS [part list] If only few parts are needed for
(Alias: PART) multipart request retry, this can
be used to pick only that/those.
MAILQUOTA [sizeexpt] Delivery limitation mechanism
Default limit 1M -- 1 MB worth mail.
...
The "PARTS" and "PARTSIZE" are the important commands. email users
may be restricted to certain size files that their email program will
handle or the size of the file that the ISP will handle. For instance,
Juno users are limited to 60Kb per mail message. You may also be
restricted to the amount of mail stored at the service providers
mailserver.
You can obtain detail information on the commands by sending for this detailed help file: To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: help filesYou will be returned with a document that looks (in part) like:
...
PARTSIZE (no argument)
Alias: SIZE
Tells current setup of partitioning information.
value Count of CHARS/BYTES IN RECORDS of file to be sent out.
In practice cut off is at first newline/record change AFTER
count expires. Mail headers must be accounted into mail
length, and they may form up to 1k increase in size.
PARTSIZE [partsizevalue]
Defines partitioning parameter value.
60000 60 000 chars for max size
60k 60k (k == 1000) chars for max size
60kBytes (Only `k' is checked)
(600l or 600r 600 lines/records * 80 -] chars)
Minumum value: 5 000 bytes, max: 256 000 / "semi-infinite"
Default value: 65 000 bytes
Danger Ahead!
0 Requests semi-infinite partsize,
currently that means 1 000 000 chars.
Our sad experience shows that when people ask for larger pieces,
than about 60k, they have far too often (for our managers liking)
problems at receiving such chunks. Those problems may be at
their own system, or at gateways leading to their system, or at
the network connectivity at any place in between.
Even when you can receive large email (1MB or more) from your
local friends/system, you may or may not be able to receive
similar from far away the Internet.
Please consider upgrading to MIME capable user-agents that
understand on how to decode and combine MESSAGE/PARTIAL kind of
messages. Such clients handle automatically message combining
independent of how many parts you have actually received.
PARTS [part-list] If set, affects following DIR and SEND
Alias: PART 1,2,3 command outputs by sending only those parts
1-3,5,7-9 of the reply that really are needed by the
customer.
NEED TO USE THIS COMMAND INDICATES THAT YOU
HAVE NETWORK PROBLEMS!
MAILQUOTA [sizelimit] Sets limit on how much output can be generated
20000 with this particular order file.
20k (We count only mail body bytes, not headers)
20kBytes Value range: 20k .. 50000k
2M : 1M .. 50M
IMPORTANT: Default (before you change it) is 1M. Change it if you want
in order more than 1MB in any single request mail!
...
This particular server has a MAILQUOTA default of 1MB that it will
download to you. However, you can simply raise the value of the quota to
fit the size of the file you are downloading up to a maximum of 30MB.
When you download files larger than 1MB, it will be necessary to use
this command.
This particular server defaults to MIME encoding. If your mail program doesn't handle MIME encoding it will be necessary to UUencode it. Hence, the "ENCODER UUENCODE" command must be used. If you didn't know that [email protected] "mirrors" many of the popular ftp sites, you can always ask the server if it has the file(s) you are interested in downloading. I will show you later what sites are mirrored. You see if the file(s) are here by sending a message to: ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: find wz32v701.exe find psp501ev.zip find psp311a.zip =======================================================================You will be returned with a document that looks like: ======================================================================= From: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] X-Warning: NEVER use REPLY on the answers that arrive to you from this server, the reply 'comes' from an error-trap address. Subject: Re: To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 22:15:20 +0300 > find wz32v701.exe * Matching for regexpr: `wz32v701.exe' * Found 1 matches. * ---------------- *:pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/compress/wz32v701.exe *:* ---------------- *:> find psp501ev.zip * Matching for regexpr: `psp501ev.zip' * Found 1 matches. * ---------------- *:pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/graphics/psp501ev.zip *:* ---------------- *:> find psp311a.zip * Matching for regexpr: `psp311a.zip' * Found 1 matches. * ---------------- *:pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win3/graphics/psp311a.zip *:* ---------------- *: Count of input lines: 4 Did 3 command(s) Resource usages: Self: Utime: 0.018, Stime: 0.089 Children: Utime: 0.025, Stime: 0.051 =======================================================================Well, this is great!. They have all files and we now know that this site "mirrors" at least one popular ftp archive site. The Paint Shop Pro v3.12 file is 2M, After uuencoding, this file will be close to 3MB. So we will use 3MB as our mailquota when retrieving this file. However, instead of retrieving it all at once, I would really like to know how many files I must retrieve. How do you do this?
EXAMPLE FTPMAIL BY PARTSYou can see how many parts are required by just downloading 1 part: ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: mailquota 30000K chdir pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win3/graphics/ encoder uuencode partsize 50K parts 1 send psp311a.zip =======================================================================Why did I format the request like I did? Well, I know that the file will be close to 3MB when uuencoded so I set the "mailquota" to 30000K, I could have used "mailquota 3M" also. If I was limited by my service provider to a lower level (like Juno users) then I would change the mailquota to a lower number (Juno users would use 1M). The "chdir" (change directory) command came from the first message that I sent to locate the file. I just selected one of the directory locations where the file was located. I want the mail uuencoded, so I used the "encoder uuencode" command. If I want MIME encoded mail, I would just omit this command. I used the "partsize 50K" command just to show you how many files you must receive if you are limited to an email message size, like Juno users. I myself could have used a larger value for my Netcom account. I only want to receive 1 part because I really want to know how many parts there are to retrieve which will allow me to format later requests, so I used the "parts 1" command. You also use this command to request missing parts or parts that didn't uudecode properly. The "send" command tells the server which file in the directory ("chdir") that I want to retrieve. You will be returned with a document that looks like: ======================================================================= From: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] X-Warning: NEVER use REPLY on the answers that arrive to you from this server, the reply 'comes' from an error-trap address. Subject: Re: To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 22:37:26 +0300 > mailquota 30000K * Can you accept MIME ? Ask "HELP MIME" for more information. * Now MAILQUOTA has value: 30000000 > chdir pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win3/graphics/ * CHDIR successfull. Current dir: `/pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win3/graphics' > encoder uuencode * New encoder has comment: `Basic USENET UUE' > partsize 50K * Now PARTSIZE has value: 50000 > parts 1 * scanned bits, result: 1 > send psp311a.zip * Check PARTS command if you need to partially retry the request. * Your file `/pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win3/graphics/psp311a.zip' has size of 1914939 Bytes (1871kB) * Running file through command "uuencode 'psp311a.zip' < '/mnt/nic/info/ftp/pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win3/graphics/psp311a.zip'" * mailed out a piece of it, 49870 bytes/805 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 2 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 3 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 4 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 5 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 6 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 7 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 8 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 9 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 10 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents ...skip 11 through 49 for brevity... * skipped piece nbr 50 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 51 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 52 of it, 49848 bytes/804 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 53 of it, 46272 bytes/749 lines of contents * Mailed out 1 piece(s) of results. Count of input lines: 7 Did 6 command(s) Resource usages: Self: Utime: 0.021, Stime: 0.071 Children: Utime: 1.410, Stime: 0.517 ======================================================================= You will also be returned with the first part (part 1) uuencoded. Wow, with a limit of 50K on an email message, I would need to retrieve 53 parts. The easy way to do this would be to send multiple messages requesting 10 parts at a time. This is easier on the server and also yourself when trying to handle them in your email program. The requests would now look like: Body: mailquota 1M chdir pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win3/graphics/ encoder uuencode partsize 50K parts 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 send psp311a.zipfollowed by: Body: mailquota 1M chdir pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win3/graphics/ encoder uuencode partsize 50K parts 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 send psp311a.zipfollowed by: parts ... up to 53 getting 10 or so at a time.until all 53 parts have been retrieved. You would then uudecode them to form the resulting psp311a.zip file.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE FTPMAIL BY PARTSLet's get the "winzip" file with the following request: To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: chdir pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/compress/ mailquota 2M encoder uuencode partsize 50K parts 1 send wz32v701.exe How come I formatted the request like I did? Well, I know that the file will be less than 2MB even when it's uuencoded. So I just used the "mailquota 2M" command. The is not really required but I have set up a template for sending mail to this server so I always include the same lines in every request. I just change the "mailquota" and "partsize" to fit. The "chdir" (change directory) command came from the first message that I sent to locate the file. I just selected one of the directory locations where the file was located. I want the mail uuencoded, so I used the "encoder uuencode" command. If I want MIME encoded mail, I would just omit this command. I used the "partsize 50K" command just to show you how many files you must receive if you are limited to an email message size, like Juno users. I myself could have used a larger value for my Netcom account. I only want to receive 1 part because I really want to know how many parts there are to retrieve which will allow me to format later requests, so I used the "parts 1" command. You also use this command to request missing parts or parts that didn't uudecode properly. The "send" command tells the server which file in the directory ("chdir") that I want to retrieve. You will be returned with a document that looks like: ======================================================================= From: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] X-Warning: NEVER use REPLY on the answers that arrive to you from this server, the reply 'comes' from an error-trap address. Subject: Re: To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:16:38 +0300 > chdir pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/compress/ * CHDIR successfull. Current dir: `/pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/compress' > mailquota 2M * Can you accept MIME ? Ask "HELP MIME" for more information. * Now MAILQUOTA has value: 2000000 > encoder uuencode * New encoder has comment: `Basic USENET UUE' > partsize 50K * Now PARTSIZE has value: 50000 > parts 1 * scanned bits, result: 1 > send wz32v701.exe * Check PARTS command if you need to partially retry the request. * Your file `/pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/compress/wz32v701.exe' has size of 943835 Bytes (922kB) * Running file through command "uuencode 'wz32v701.exe' < '/mnt/nic/info/ftp/pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/compress/wz32v701.exe'" * mailed out a piece of it, 48197 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 2 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 3 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 4 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 5 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 6 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 7 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 8 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 9 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 10 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 11 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 12 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 13 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 14 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 15 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 16 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 17 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 18 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 19 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 20 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 21 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 22 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 23 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 24 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 25 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 26 of it, 48236 bytes/778 lines of contents * skipped piece nbr 27 of it, 46330 bytes/750 lines of contents * Mailed out 1 piece(s) of results. Count of input lines: 7 Did 6 command(s) Resource usages: Self: Utime: 0.018, Stime: 0.065 Children: Utime: 0.727, Stime: 0.357 ======================================================================= You will also be returned with the first part (part 1) uuencoded. I know that there are only 27 parts to retrieve for this file. So my next request would look like: Body: chdir pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/compress/ mailquota 2M encoder uuencode partsize 50K parts 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 send wz32v701.exefollowed by: Body: chdir pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/compress/ mailquota 2M encoder uuencode partsize 50K parts 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 send wz32v701.exefollowed by: parts ... up to 27 getting 10 or so at a time.until all 27 parts have been retrieved. You would then uudecode them to form the resulting wz32v701.exe file.
EXAMPLE FTPMAIL - RESENDLet's say part 4 of 6 was received corrupted or maybe you didn't receive it at all. How do you get the missing part? Use the parts command to receive missing part(s). This also will work on files that you tried to receive that were too large for your mailbox. You just resend for the missing parts. Let's get the "wz32v701.exe" file part 4 and 6 with the following request: To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: chdir pub/mirrors/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/win95/compress/ mailquota 2M encoder uuencode partsize 50K parts 4 6 send wz32v701.exe OTHER FTPMAIL SERVERS THAT ALLOW RESEND CAPABILITIES[email protected] works in a manner exactly similar to [email protected]
FTPMAIL SERVER MIRRORSI stated above that I would show how to locate the mirror sites for these ftpmail servers. Just take a look in this file of ftp mirror sites.
FTPMAIL SERVERSYou can access FTP by email by using one of these sites: To: ftpmail server [Table of Contents (Home page)] [Index (Top of page)] Gopher by emailBefore the advent of the World Wide Web, Gopher was the document access protocol of choice. Gopher sites are now few and far between. Gopher provides menu access to mainly text-based documents on the Internet. Gopher screens consist of numbered menu items. All you need to do is highlight the desired item with the cursor keys and press Enter. When you select a menu item, Gopher burrows through Internet pathways to find the information you requested and retrieves it to your screen. In effect, Gopher presents the Internet as if it were a part of a single directory system. NOTE: Over the past few years, Gopher has nearly disappeared from the Internet as the World Wide Web has become the interface of choice. But still there is quite a bit of information available on gopher servers, and a few working gopher servers. The gopher protocol is designed primarily to act as a distributed document delivery system. While documents (and services) reside on many servers, Gopher client software presents users with a hierarchy of items and directories much like a file system. In fact, the Gopher interface is designed to resemble a file system since a file system is a good model for locating documents and services. When using a gopher client program via the Internet, you specify the name of the site and the servers return either directory lists or documents. Each item in a directory is identified by a type (the kind of object the item is), user-visible name (used to browse and select from menu listings), an opaque selector string (typically containing a pathname used by the destination host to locate the desired object), a host name (which host to contact to obtain this item), and an IP port number (the port at which the server process listens for connections.) The user only sees the user-visible name. The client software can locate and retrieve any item by the trio of selector, hostname, and port.
ABOUT GOPHERMAILGopherMail is a gopher client that uses electronic mail to interact with the user. Messages containing menus and gopher link information are mailed to users in response to their requests. Users reply to these messages and indicate which menu items they want. It lets people use Gopher without requiring them to have an account directly on the Internet, because it communicates through email messages instead of direct "live" network connections. Until now, Gopher could only be used by people with Mac's, PC's, NeXTs and Suns, etc. which are "live" on the Internet, or through shell accounts on Internet machines. Gopher client programs would make a direct network connection to the Gopher server on the host with the desired information, anywhere on the Internet, anywhere in the world. Thanks to the GopherMail program, most of the resources of Gopher are now available to everyone with email-only access to the Internet. The commands are the same on every server - send the "help" command to find out how gophermail works on the server you are using or may wish to take a look at Gophermail help files.
GETTING STARTEDYou can get started by sending mail to a gophermail server with any or no subject and any or no message body. GopherMail will reply by sending you it's main gopher menu. You then use your email program to reply to that message, including it in the text of your reply. Mark which menu options you want to follow-up by putting an X (or x) anywhere near the beginning of the line, before the menu numbers for those options. From there you can just keep repeating the process, sending replies back to gopher with the desired items marked with an X. To make it more efficient, you could edit your replies so they contain just the gopher link information for the items that you want. You'll find all the link information after the menu, at the bottom of the menu messages that GopherMail sends to you. Some items on gopher menus are database searches and college phone books. To search for a particular name or keyword(s), you simply send them on the Subject: line of the message in which you've Xed the phonebook or WAIS database menu option. There are really just four basic steps to using GopherMail:
OPTIONSGopherMail's options include:
Since many email gateways have size limits on email messages, it's possible to split GopherMail output into several messages when it exceeds a certain size. This can be done by specifying a maximum number of menu items to send in one message, or by specifying a maximum size in bytes for text, HQX, binary and sound files. There are a couple of ways to do this. The first way is to put Menu=50 and/or Split=30000 (for example) in the Subject: of your message when requesting gopher menus and/or files. This would limit the output to 50 menu items per message, and would send files in messages of approximately 30,000 bytes each, maximum. The other way is to include these same instructions in the body of the message, on separate lines. For example:
Split=25K You may have text after the "25K". The "K" or "k" becomes "000".
(Yes, I know 1K = 1024, but it was easier to write this way). Lines like these already appear in menu messages, you can find them after the menu items and before the link information. They contain the default values. You should edit these lines to contain the values that you want. All subsequent menus will contain your preferred Menu= and Split= values. Setting these values to 0 (zero) has the effect of not splitting messages at all. The default is to split menus after 100 items, and files after 27,000 bytes. If Split= or Menu= appear in the Subject: of the message, these will override the values set in the message body. You can specify a different host when requesting a top level gopher menu by placing a fully qualified domain name as the Subject: of your message (such as gopher.micro.umn.edu). You can also specify a port other than the default of 70 by placing it after a fully qualified domain name in the subject (e.g. darth.sdsc.edu 800). The most efficient way to use GopherMail is to mail just the link information for one or several gopher items. You can build a type of "bookmarks" file by saving the links that you want to use again. If you mail just the link information for a gopher connection, GopherMail will follow the link and mail you the output. Here's what you need: Name=About GopherMail -- This is optional, it returns in the Subject: Type=0 -- This is required, see below for a list of types. Port=70 -- Port 70 is assumed, required only if different. Path=0/INFO/gophermail -- This is usually required, depends on the link. Host=gopher.ncc.go.jp -- Required. This MUST be the last line of the link. Supported Types are:
0 -- Text File
1 -- Directory
2 -- CSO name server
4 -- Mac HQX file.
7 -- Full Text Index (these are often WAIS database searches)
9 -- Binary File
s -- Sound
NOTE: Binary and Sound Files are sent as uuencoded files. If you send the word help as the subject, GopherMail will send you the help file. To save a few keystrokes, instead of putting X's in front of the menu lines, you could also just insert lines at the top of the reply which contain an "X" followed by the menu number that you want, such as: x3 X15 GopherMail also recognizes gopher link information in "raw" form, which means tab-delimited on one line. A typical link might look like: 0About GopherMail#0/INFO/gophermail#gopher.ncc.go.jp#70 The "#" marks represent tab characters. This may not seem very useful, but it allows you to copy a link from a program like GopherApp and paste it into a message to gopher for processing by GopherMail. Although not every item on every menu will be accessible by "gophermail", you'll still find plenty of interesting things using this technique. Send email to one of these gophermail servers.
EXAMPLE GOPHERMAIL SEARCHESYou can optionally specify the address of a known gopher site on the Subject line to get the main menu for that site instead. Here are some interesting gopher sites you may like to explore at your leisure. cwis.usc.edu (NO longer current 01Jan99 but can be used) gopher.micro.umn.edu english-server.hss.cmu.eduSend email to: [email protected] (Japan) with the following: Subject: cwis.usc.eduYou'll get a message back from the server that looks something like the following: ======================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:59:34 +0900 (JST) From: [email protected] To: [email protected] ("Gerald E. Boyd" ) Subject: Gopher Server at cwis.usc.edu X-Menu: Max. 100 items/message X-Sorted: Default Due to the heavy load of the server, please restrict your request to research and academic sites only. This helps the server live longer. Mail this file back to gopher with an X before the menu items that you want. If you don't mark any items, gopher will send all of them. 1. USCgopher is no longer current./ 2. -------------------------------/ 3. Please access current USC Information/ 4. on USCweb./ 5. Point your web browser at http://www.usc.edu/ 6. If you don't have access to a graphical web browser,/ 7. you can use the Lynx text browser with the command/ 8. lynx http://www.usc.edu/ 9. -----------------------------------------/ You may edit the following two numbers to set the maximum sizes after which GopherMail should send output as multiple email messages: Split=27K bytes/message <- For text, bin, HQX messages (0 = No split) Menu=100 items/message <- For menus and query responses (0 = No split) # Name=USCgopher is no longer current. Numb=1 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/About_USCgopher Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=------------------------------- Numb=2 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Indexes Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Please access current USC Information Numb=3 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/University_Information Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=on USCweb. Numb=4 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Campus_Life Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Point your web browser at http://www.usc.edu Numb=5 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Computing_Information Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=If you don't have access to a graphical web browser, Numb=6 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/LibraryResearch Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=you can use the Lynx text browser with the command Numb=7 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/The_Health_Sciences_Campus Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=lynx http://www.usc.edu Numb=8 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Research_and_Technology_Centers Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=----------------------------------------- Numb=9 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources Host=cwis.usc.edu =======================================================================To proceed to a selection on the returned menu place an x next to the items(s) you want to explore. You'll then receive the next level of the gopher menu by email. Some menu choices lead to other menus, some lead to text files, and some lead to searches. In the example above, let's select x 9. Other Gophers & Info Resourcesand forward the whole thing right back at the same gophermail server. Note: You don't have to forward the whole email message and all the routing info that follows it each time you reply to the gophermail server. If you want to minimize the size of your query, you can strip out the "menu" portion at the top and include only the portion below (the "bookmark") that pertains to the menu selection you want. Send email to: [email protected] (Japan) with the following: Split=0K bytes/message Menu=0 items/message # Name=Other Gophers and Information Resources Numb=9 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources Host=cwis.usc.edu If this looks like nonsense to you, here's a translation: Split= -- don't split the mail message at 27K, send one large email Menu= -- don't split menu items, send all of them, if any # -- separator character, only required if more than one bookmark item Name= -- is the name of the menu item Numb= -- tells the host that it's menu item 9 Type= -- defines it as a directory Port= -- refers to the TCP port (70 is the default for gopher connections), Path= -- is the path on the local host where the file exists Host= -- states the fully qualified domain name of the host Either way you should then receive the following: ======================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:59:39 +0900 (JST) From: [email protected] To: [email protected] ("Gerald E. Boyd" ) Subject: Other Gophers and Information Resources X-Sorted: Default Due to the heavy load of the server, please restrict your request to research and academic sites only. This helps the server live longer. Mail this file back to gopher with an X before the menu items that you want. If you don't mark any items, gopher will send all of them. 1. How to use Gopher (free course)/ 2. Guides to Internet Resources/ 3. Gophers by Subject/ 4. Gophers by Location/ 5. Gophers by Keyword Search (Veronica)/ 6. The Mother Gopher at Minnesota/ 7. Internet File Server (FTP) Sites/ 8. Directories (names, phones, addresses)/ 9. Commercial Services/ 10. Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides (UMich)/ 11. Gopher-Jewels/ 12. Miscellaneous/ You may edit the following two numbers to set the maximum sizes after which GopherMail should send output as multiple email messages: Split=0 bytes/message <- For text, bin, HQX messages (0 = No split) Menu=0 items/message <- For menus and query responses (0 = No split) # Name=How to use Gopher (free course) Numb=1 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopherin Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Guides to Internet Resources Numb=2 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Guides_to_Internet_Resources Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Gophers by Subject Numb=3 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gophers_by_Subject Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Gophers by Location Numb=4 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other Gopher and Information Servers Host=gopher.micro.umn.edu # Name=Gophers by Keyword Search (Veronica) Numb=5 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/veronica Host=gopher.unr.edu # Name=The Mother Gopher at Minnesota Numb=6 Type=1 Port=70 Path= Host=gopher.micro.umn.edu # Name=Internet File Server (FTP) Sites Numb=7 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/FTP Searches Host=gopher.tc.umn.edu # Name=Directories (names, phones, addresses) Numb=8 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Directories Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Commercial Services Numb=9 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Commercial Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides (UMich) Numb=10 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/inetdirs Host=una.hh.lib.umich.edu # Name=Gopher-Jewels Numb=11 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Miscellaneous Numb=12 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Miscellaneous Host=cwis.usc.edu =======================================================================NOTE: Item 11. Gopher-Jewels/. The Gopher Jewels project was probably the best organized collection of Internet resources around. However, it is outdated as the last update to the project was in Novmber 1994. Let's get the listing anyway. Here is how to do it: Send email to: [email protected] (Japan) with the following: Split=0K Menu=0 # Name=Gopher-Jewels Numb=11 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels Host=cwis.usc.edu You will then receive the following: ======================================================================= Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:59:45 +0900 (JST) From: [email protected] To: [email protected] ("Gerald E. Boyd" ) Subject: Gopher-Jewels X-Sorted: Default Due to the heavy load of the server, please restrict your request to research and academic sites only. This helps the server live longer. Mail this file back to gopher with an X before the menu items that you want. If you don't mark any items, gopher will send all of them. 1. GOPHER JEWELS Information and Help/ 2. Community, Global and Environmental/ 3. Education, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities/ 4. Economics, Business and Store Fronts/ 5. Engineering and Industrial Applications/ 6. Government/ 7. Health, Medical, and Disability/ 8. Internet and Computer Related Resources/ 9. Law/ 10. Library, Reference, and News/ 11. Miscellaneous Items/ 12. Natural Sciences including Mathematics/ 13. Personal Development and Recreation/ 14. Research, Technology Transfer and Grants Opportunities/ 15. Search Gopher Jewels Menus by Key Word(s) <?> (Send keywords in Subject:) You may edit the following two numbers to set the maximum sizes after which GopherMail should send output as multiple email messages: Split=0 bytes/message <- For text, bin, HQX messages (0 = No split) Menu=0 items/message <- For menus and query responses (0 = No split) # Name=GOPHER JEWELS Information and Help Numb=1 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/GJstuff Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Community, Global and Environmental Numb=2 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/community Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Education, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Numb=3 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/academic Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Economics, Business and Store Fronts Numb=4 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/biz Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Engineering and Industrial Applications Numb=5 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/engineering Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Government Numb=6 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/government Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Health, Medical, and Disability Numb=7 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/medical Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Internet and Computer Related Resources Numb=8 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/internet Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Law Numb=9 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/law Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Library, Reference, and News Numb=10 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/general Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Miscellaneous Items Numb=11 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/misc Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Natural Sciences including Mathematics Numb=12 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/science Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Personal Development and Recreation Numb=13 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/Istuff Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Research, Technology Transfer and Grants Opportunities Numb=14 Type=1 Port=70 Path=1/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/Gopher-Jewels/research Host=cwis.usc.edu # Name=Search Gopher Jewels Menus by Key Word(s) Numb=15 Type=7 Port=3456 Path= Host=cwis.usc.edu ======================================================================= If a menu item is labeled "Search" (like Numb=15 above) you can select that item with an x and supply your search words in the Subject: of your reply. Note that your search criteria can be a single word or a boolean expression such as: document and (historic or government)Each of the results (the "hits") of your search will be displayed as an entry on yet another gopher menu! Note: Sometimes gophermail requests return a blank menu or message. This is most likely because the server failed to connect to the host from which you were trying to get your information. Send your request again later and it'll probably work. [Table of Contents (Home page)] [Index (Top of page)] WWW Files By GophermailSuppose you want to get a large file, say 600K, from a WWW page. You know that Agora servers only allow you to get a maximum of 5000 lines (about 300K). What should you do? Use a gophermail server, especially if it is a large binary or text file you are trying to download. The format for the body of the message is as follows: # [use as separator if you want more that one file retrieval] Split=0 [use 0 if you want to receive one large file - default is 27Kb] Name= [Subject title that you want returned in your email message] Type=9 [9 for binary, 0 for text file] Port=80 [default port for WWW pages] Path=GET [path and name of binary or large text file] Host= [www site name without the http://]For instance, let's suppose you were trying to get my servers.html listing from my web page and that it was over 5000 lines (it isn't, but I'm just using this as an example). We know that it is a text file from the name (servers.html). The address is http://www.expita.com/servers.html. How would we use a gophermail server to retrieve the file? ======================================================================= To: gophermail server Subject: [leave blank] Split=0 Name=G.E.Boyd's email Server Listing Type=0 Port=80 Path=GET /CapitolHill/1236/servers.html Host=www.geocities.com ======================================================================="Type=0" because it's a text file.... Another example, you want to retrieve a large zip file that is accessed via a web page (and it doesn't refer to an FTP site because if it did, we should use ftpmail). Let's presume that we wish to retrieve an IBM product offering concerning Firewall for AIX. I find the PDF document on IBM's web page at: http://www-1.ibm.com/services/its/us/mus04b1.html titled "Installation Service for Firewall for AIX" with a product offering PDF file in the directory "services/its/us/source/mus04b1.pdf". What do you do to retrieve this file? To: gophermail server Subject: [leave blank] Split=0 Name=Installation Service for Firewall for AIX Type=9 Port=80 Path=GET /services/its/us/source/mus04b1.pdf Host=www-1.ibm.com"Type=9" because it's a binary file.... (PDF is binary!) This file will come back to you as a uuencoded file in one large email message. (Binary, Sound and Image Files are sent as uuencoded files.) What do you do if your email program doesn't support more than 60Kb email messages? Change the Split command to reflect 60K parts to be returned. ======================================================================= To: gophermail server Subject: [leave blank] Split=60K Name=Installation Service for Firewall for AIX Type=9 Port=80 Path=GET /services/its/us/source/mus04b1.pdf Host=www-1.ibm.com =======================================================================
Another example. You find some MPEG (mp3) files on a web page located in
Sweden (http://hem.passagen.se/jlo/anorex.mp3 -- 970Kb) Let's use the Czech server as it's closer to the Swedish site. Here is what the mail message should look like:
======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] Body: # Split=0 Name=970K MP3 File from Swedish Site Type=9 Port=80 Path=GET /jlo/anorex.mp3 Host=hem.passagen.se # Split=500K Name=1.3Mb MP3 File from Swedish Site Type=9 Port=80 Path=GET /jlo/inhis.mp3 Host=hem.passagen.se =======================================================================Why did I format the message like I did? Well, for the first file, I am going to retrieve it in one verrrry large uuencoded message so I use "Split=0" which tells the gophermail server to *NOT* split the file into pieces. My mail program and mailserver both will handle large files. If you don't use the "split" command, the gophermail servers will "automagically" split them into 27K pieces. I use "Name=970K MP3 File from Swedish Site" as this will uniquely identify the file to me when it is returned by the server. Remember, the "Name=" field is returned as the "Subject:" of the returned mail message. "Type=9" identifies this as a binary file. The "Path=" statement must include the word "GET" and the directory in which the file is located. Lastly, the "Host=" is the name of the WWW site without the "http://". The "#" is used as the separator character between sites. Only 1 "GET" command is allowed per request, so even if it is the same site you must use this format to request multiple files. The second request is formatted like the first one except in this case I'm going to retrieve the 1.3MB file in 500K pieces. I could retrieve this file all in one piece if I wanted but I usually try to restrain myself and don't retrieve files in email messages larger than 1MB. I'm luckier than most (:>)... The first request sends me 2 uuencoded files, The first part of which looks this: ======================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:26:32 +0200 (CEST) From: The devil himself <[email protected]> To: [email protected] ("Gerald E. Boyd" ) Subject: 970K MP3 File from Swedish Site Reply-To: [email protected] begin 644 anorex.mp3 ...skip 8066 lines for brevity... ======================================================================= NOTE: Even though I requested one large file, this server will still split uuencoded files at about halfway if they exceed 1.0Mb. Notice how the Subject: line uses the "Name=" that I supplied on my original request. The second request sends me 4 uuencoded files, The first part of which looks this: ======================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:27:08 +0200 (CEST) From: The devil himself <[email protected]> To: [email protected] ("Gerald E. Boyd" ) Subject: 1.3Mb MP3 File from Swedish Site Reply-To: [email protected] X-Split: After 500K bytes/message begin 644 inhis.mp3 ...skip 8066 lines for brevity... ======================================================================= Notice how the Subject: line uses the "Name=" that I supplied on my original request. Also notice the "X-Split" directive that indicates the size of the "Split=" command I used, that is 500K. The next 2 parts returned to me look like: ======================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:27:09 +0200 (CEST) From: The devil himself <[email protected]> To: [email protected] ("Gerald E. Boyd" ) Subject: 1.3Mb MP3 File from Swedish Site Part 2 Subject: 1.3Mb MP3 File from Swedish Site Part 3 Reply-To: [email protected] X-Split: After 500K bytes/message ...skip 8066 uuencoded lines for brevity... ======================================================================= Notice how the Subject: line uses the "Name=" that I supplied on my original request as well as the "Part" that is being returned. Also notice the "X-Split" directive that indicates the size of the "Split=" command I used, that is 500K. NOTE: The "Part xx" is only returned on the second and subsequent uuencoded messages. It doesn't appear on the first one. The last part returned to me looks like: ======================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:27:11 +0200 (CEST) From: The devil himself <[email protected]> To: [email protected] ("Gerald E. Boyd" ) Subject: 1.3Mb MP3 File from Swedish Site Part 4 Reply-To: [email protected] X-Split: After 500K bytes/message ...skip 5185 uuencoded lines for brevity... ` end =======================================================================This is copy of my directory listing for these retrievals: 13MP3-1 TXT 508377 06/11/99 8:02a 13MP3-2 TXT 508363 06/11/99 8:03a 13MP3-3 TXT 508363 06/11/99 8:03a 13MP3-4 TXT 326875 06/11/99 8:04a 970MP3-1 TXT 693875 06/11/99 8:06a 970MP3-2 TXT 693647 06/11/99 8:08aThere is one other gophermail server that may be used but the techniques to make them work are very complicated. See COMPLICATED USE To get a web page or binary file requires you to edit a typical gopher menu page that has this section in it: Mail this *complete file* back to gopher with an X before the menu items that you want. Don't let your mail software put "> " or other characters in the file you return. Reply with the word help in the subject line for more help.or Mail this file back to gopher with an X before the menu items that you want. If you don't mark any items, gopher will not send anything back.To retrieve my servers.html listing from my web page using this complicated gophermail server. ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [Fwd: UNDP Gopher Server] Mail this file back to gopher with an X before the menu items that you want. If you don't mark any items, gopher will not send anything back. X 1. G.E.Boyds email Server Listing [ASCII 12 character here] You may edit the following two numbers to set the maximum sizes after which GopherMail should send output as multiple email messages: Split=0K bytes/message <- For text, bin, HQX messages (0 = No split) Menu=0 items/message <- For menus and query responses (0 = No split) [ASCII 12 character here] # Name=G.E.Boyds email Server Listing Numb=1 Type=0 Port=80 Path=GET /CapitolHill/1236/servers.html Host=www.geocities.com ======================================================================= To make this gophermail server work I had to resort to the convoluted fake forward message you see, including the fake menu item. If you plan on using this server, then just change the line: X 1. G.E.Boyds email Server Listingand the matching Name= line: Name=G.E.Boyds email Server ListingThese two lines should exactly match. Also be sure to change the Type, Port, Path, and Host to point to the actual server and web page or binary file you wish to retrive. If you wish to retrieve more than 1 file then add the additional lines at the top of the message with an "X" in front of the menu item and include the Name, Numb, Type, Port, and Host for the added items. For example, if you wish to retrieve 4 separate files, then your message should look something like: ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [Fwd: UNDP Gopher Server] Mail this file back to gopher with an X before the menu items that you want. If you don't mark any items, gopher will not send anything back. X 1. G.E.Boyds email Server Listing X 2. G.E.Boyds Howto 1 file X 3. G.E.Boyds Howto 2 file X 4. G.E.Boyds Howto 3 file [ASCII 12 character here] You may edit the following two numbers to set the maximum sizes after which GopherMail should send output as multiple email messages: Split=0K bytes/message <- For text, bin, HQX messages (0 = No split) Menu=0 items/message <- For menus and query responses (0 = No split) [ASCII 12 character here] # Name=G.E.Boyds email Server Listing Numb=1 Type=0 Port=80 Path=GET /CapitolHill/1236/servers.html Host=www.geocities.com # Name=G.E.Boyds Howto 1 file Numb=2 Type=0 Port=80 Path=GET /CapitolHill/1236/howto1.html Host=www.geocities.com # Name=G.E.Boyds Howto 2 file Numb=3 Type=0 Port=80 Path=GET /CapitolHill/1236/howto1.html Host=www.geocities.com # Name=G.E.Boyds Howto 3 file Numb=4 Type=0 Port=80 Path=GET /CapitolHill/1236/howto1.html Host=www.geocities.com =======================================================================The second line after the menu contains an ASCII 12 (hexadecimal C) character in-case in doesn't show up in this file. There is also another one just before the "#" in the address portion. The note "[ASCII 12 character here]" shows where they appear in the message. Be sure to omit the note. Change the Split=0K command to reflect maximum size mail message that you wish to receive. 0 means don't split. [Table of Contents (Home page)] [Index (Top of page)] FTP Files By GophermailSuppose you want to get a large file, say 600K, from an FTP site. You know that Agora servers only allow you to get a maximum of 5000 lines (about 300K). What should you do? Use an FTPmail server. But you can also use a gophermail server, especially if it is a large binary you are trying to download. The format for the body of the message is as follows:
# [use as separator if you want more that one file retrieval]
Split=0 [use 0 if you want to receive one large file - default is 27Kb]
Name= [Subject title that you want returned in your email message]
Type= [9 for binary, 0 for text file, 1 for directory listing]
Port=70 [default gopher port]
Path=ftp:[Name]@/[Path]/[File] [where Name is ftp site name,
Path is file path, File is the filename you wish to retrieve]
Host= [gopher site that supports file transfers]
Let's get a directory listing at an FTP site. Suppose we would like to know all the files in the public directory at the freebsd site. How would we format the message? And what results would we receive? ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] # Split=0 Name=Directory Listing Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz ======================================================================="Type=1" because it's a directory listing... "Split=0" because I want all results in one returned mail message... Here is what I received: ======================================================================= Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 17:27:05 +0200 (CEST) From: The devil himself <[email protected]> To: [email protected] ("Gerald E. Boyd" ) Subject: Directory Listing Reply-To: [email protected] X-Sorted: Admin This is response to your request with Subject: Mail this file back to gopher with an X before the menu items that you want. If you don't mark any items, gopher will send all of them. Dear gophermail user, we are going to keep this service running and free of charge. But we've decided to put an advertising field into all replies. The field won't be so long, more less like this notice, and will include only plain text data. If you don't like this, please don't use our service. Regards, Jan Hrdonka <[email protected]> EUnet Czechia <[email protected]> 1. 3dfiles/ 2. 3drealms/ 3. 4.4BSD-Lite/ 4. 4cust/ 5. FreeBSD/ 6. MacSciTech/ 7. NetBSD/ 8. README. 9. UPLOADS.TXT/ 10. X11/ 11. XFree86/ 12. abuse/ 13. ada/ 14. algorithms/ 15. artpacks/ 16. ase/ 17. asme/ 18. audio/ 19. avalon/ 20. beos/ 21. bluesnews/ 22. bsd-sources/ 23. cdrom/ 24. cheats/ 25. cnet/ 26. delphi/ 27. delphi_www/ 28. delphideli/ 29. demos/ 30. doom/ 31. doom2/ 32. epic/ 33. forth/ 34. games/ 35. games_patches/ 36. gamesdomain/ 37. garbo/ 38. ghostscript/ 39. gnu/ 40. gt/ 41. gus/ 42. gutenberg/ 43. hamradio/ 44. hexen2/ 45. hobbes/ 46. idgames/ 47. idgames2/ 48. idgames3/ 49. imm/ 50. infozip/ 51. internet/ 52. irc/ 53. japanese/ 54. java/ 55. jn4/ 56. languages/ 57. linux/ 58. lisp/ 59. mac/ 60. math/ 61. mng/ 62. mozilla/ 63. mutt/ 64. netlib/ 65. novell/ 66. obi/ 67. os2/ 68. perl/ 69. planetquake/ 70. png/ 71. povray/ 72. python/ 73. quake/ 74. quake2/ 75. quake3/ 76. sac/ 77. sde/ 78. security/ 79. setiathome/ 80. simtelnet/ 81. slow.txt/ 82. tcl/ 83. tex/ 84. tomahawk/ 85. unix-c/ 86. unixfreeware/ 87. unreal/ 88. vim/ 89. viseng/ 90. win3/ 91. win95/ 92. x2ftp/ You may edit the following two numbers to set the maximum sizes after which GopherMail should send output as multiple email messages: Split= bytes/message <- For text, bin, HQX messages (0 = No split) Menu= items/message <- For menus and query responses (0 = No split) # Name=3dfiles Numb=1 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/3dfiles/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=3drealms Numb=2 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/3drealms/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=4.4BSD-Lite Numb=3 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/4.4BSD-Lite/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=4cust Numb=4 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/4cust/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=FreeBSD Numb=5 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/FreeBSD/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=MacSciTech Numb=6 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/MacSciTech/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=NetBSD Numb=7 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/NetBSD/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=README Numb=8 Type=0 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/README Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=UPLOADS.TXT Numb=9 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/UPLOADS.TXT/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=X11 Numb=10 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/X11/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # ...skip menu items 11 through 86 for brevity... # Name=unreal Numb=87 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/unreal/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=vim Numb=88 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/vim/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=viseng Numb=89 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/viseng/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=win3 Numb=90 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/win3/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=win95 Numb=91 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/win95/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz # Name=x2ftp Numb=92 Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/x2ftp/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz =======================================================================If we wanted to know what files were in a specific directory, we could format another request using the returned results. For example, if I wanted to know the files in the C++ directory, then using the results from Numb=5 above, I would format a request like: ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [leave blank] # Split=0 Name=C++ Directory Type=1 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.freebsd.org@/pub/ Host=gopher.eunet.cz =======================================================================Again, "Type=1" because it's a directory listing... "Split=0" because I want all results in one returned mail message... There are two other gophermail servers that may be used but the techniques to make them work are very complicated. See COMPLICATED USE If you wish to retrieve a binary file then your message should look something like: ======================================================================= To: [email protected] Subject: [Fwd: G.E.Boyds FTP site] Mail this file back to gopher with an X before the menu items that you want. If you don't mark any items, gopher will not send anything back. X 1. wssearch.zip <Bin> [ASCII 12 character here] You may edit the following two numbers to set the maximum sizes after which GopherMail should send output as multiple email messages: Split=0 bytes/message <- For text, bin, HQX messages (0 = No split) Menu=0 items/message <- For menus and query responses (0 = No split) [ASCII 12 character here] # Name=wssearch.zip Numb=1 Type=9 Port=70 Path=ftp:ftp.netcom.com@/pub/gb/gboyd/wssearch.zip Host=gopher.eunet.cz =======================================================================The second line after the menu contains an ASCII 12 (hexadecimal C) character in-case in doesn't show up in this file. There is also another one just before the "#" in the address portion. The note "[ASCII 12 character here]" shows where they appear in the message. Be sure to omit the note. Change the Split=0K command to reflect maximum size mail message that you wish to receive. 0 means don't split. Change the Host= to one of the sites listed in Bob Appleton's GETIT4U.TXT file in Section 2. NOTE: I have been successful in retrieving both web pages and binary files from the [email protected] site. [Table of Contents (Home page)] [Index (Top of page)] Veronica by emailVeronica was a resource-discovery system providing access to information resources held on most of the world's gopher servers. As best as I can determine the last Veronica server at Host=veronica.man.lodz.pl quit working sometime after 17Sep99. [Table of Contents (Home page)] [Index (Top of page)] Jughead by emailJughead is an acronym for: Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display jughead head can act as a search engine on a prebuilt table that allows searching through menus, or can create a linear view of menu space. When running jughead you can specify what part of gopherspace you want search tables built or a linear view thereof. When running as a search engine, jughead listens out a port for a connection and a search string. The search string can contain the boolean operations "AND", "OR", and "NOT" between words. If no operator is specified between words, it is an implied "AND" operation. For example either: "University of utah" or "University AND of AND Utah"will yield all gopher entries with "university" and "of" and "utah" in the title. The case of the letters is irrelevant. Jughead like Veronica and Gopher is almost entirely non-existant. Many of the results from Jughead searches will point to non-existant gopher sites or to sources that have not been updated since 1998. You can send these lines to any gophermail server to run a Jughead search at these 6 servers. Specify the search words or phrase in the Subject line. Split=64K bytes/message -- For text, bin, HQX messages (0 = No split) Menu=100 items/message -- For menus and query responses (0 = No split) # Name=Jughead (gopher.ic.ac.uk:3000) Type=7 Port=3000 Path= Host=gopher.ic.ac.uk # Name=Jughead (gopher.utah.edu:3000) Type=7 Port=3000 Path= Host=gopher.utah.edu # Name=Jughead (gort.canisius.edu:3000) Type=7 Port=3000 Path= Host=gort.canisius.edu # Name=Jughead (marvel.loc.gov:2069) Type=7 Port=2069 Path= Host=marvel.loc.gov # Name=Jughead (sunny.csd.mu.edu:3000) Type=7 Port=3000 Path= Host=sunny.csd.mu.edu # Name=Jughead (dewey.lib.ncsu.edu:3000) Type=7 Port=3000 Path= Host=dewey.lib.ncsu.edu [Table of Contents (Home page)] [Index (Top of page)] Last Revised: August 11, 2000 Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions concerning these web pages.  [email protected]
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