Ftpmail Help
Brackets "[]" around an argument to a command are optional.
Valid commands to the ftpmail gateway are:
- reply-to
email-address
- Who to send the response to. This is optional and defaults to
the email address you use to send the message.
Followed by one of:
- help
- Just Send back the help file containing a list of the valid commands.
- delete
jobid
- Delete the given job
- open
[site [user [pass]]]
Site to ftp to. Defaults are
salton.cs.tamu.edu anonymous reply-to-address.
If there was an open then it can be followed
by up to 100 of the following commands
- cd pathname
- Change directory (for example: cd pub/dlconfs).
- ls [pathname]
- List files and directories in pathname. Defaults to current directory.
- dir [pathname]
- Long files and directories in pathname with additional information,
such as size and date of creation. Defaults to current directory.
- get pathname
- Retrieve a file (for example "get pub/dlconfs/lslR").
- compress
- Use the Unix Compress program to shrink files and directory listings
before having them sent back to you.
- gzip
- Use the Free Software Foundation's GNU Zip program to shrink files
and directory listings before having them sent back to you.
- uuencode
- Converting a binary (non-plain text or HTML) file, such as an image,
before emailing.
- force uuencode
- Force all files or directory listings to be encoded before sending
back. There is no default.
- mime
- Send the message as a Mime Verson 1.0 message. Text will be sent as
text/plain charset=US-ASCII, non-text as application/octet-stream. If the
file is split up then it will be sent as a message/partial. Mime stands
for "Multi-media Internet Mail Extension", and allows e-mail
to contain binary information, such as images.
- charset=US-ASCII
- Non-text as application/octet-stream. If the file is splitup then it
will be sent as a message/partial.
- force mime
- Behaves identically to "mime" but forces text files to be
sent as application/octet-stream.
- no [compress|gzip|uuencode|btoa|mime]
- Turn the option off (for example: "no compress" will cause
"get" commands following it to return uncompressed copies of
the files).
- size num[K|M]
- Set the maximum size a file can be before it is split up and sent back
in parts to the given number of Kilo or Mega bytes. There is a maximum
size limitation.
- mode binary
or mode ascii
- Changes the mode selected for the "get" command. This defaults
to binary, and in most cases, you will not want to change it.
- quit
- End of input - ignore any following lines. Useful when your email program
is configured to automatically append a signature to your messages.
Example Scripts
open
dir
quit
Connect to salton.cs.tamu.edu and send back the the top level
directory.
- reply-to userid@salton_isr
open
cd pub/dlconfs
get lslR
quit
Connect to salton.cs.tamu.edu, and send back the file lslR
(the list of the files available in the Preceedings Archives) to userid@salton_isr.
reply-to userid@salton_isr
open ftp.cs.tamu.edu
cd /pub/mosaic/windows/Win95
gzip
mime
get mosaic21.exe
quit
Connect to ftp.cs.tamu.edu, and send back the file mosaic21.exe
(2MB)(gzipped and mime encoded) to userid@salton_isr.
Last modified: Dec. 11, 1996, Comment to
cchung@cs.tamu.edu
