This information is based on recent tests, and is believed to be accurate on the date of the post.
============================================================================ Agora (dna.affrc.go.jp) Category: web-to-email servers Posting address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Command: in the message body Web page: none, but there is an online help file at http://www.dna.affrc.go.jp/misc/Agora/Help.txt Syntax and returned document: SEND <URL> Returns a text dump of the requested page. If you request a binary file (eg: image, PDF), it returns a uu-encoded attachment. SOURCE <URL> Returns the source HTML of the requested page BSOURCE <URL> Returns the requested resource as a uu-encoded attachment. RSEND <return-email-address> <URL> RSOURCE <return-email-address> <URL> Same as SEND and SOURCE, but Agora will return the requested resource to <return-email-address> DEEP <URL> Returns the requested resource, and documents to which it is linked, each in a separate email. Note that the total number of lines in these emails will not be more than 5,000. Character encoding issues: The character set of Agora emails is us-ascii. Web pages which have characters with code positions greater than 127 (eg: diacritics, Unicode) are corrupted. However, you can use BSOURCE to retrieve such files as uu-encoded attachments. Recommendation: Use SEND if your target is - a text file - an English language web page Use SOURCE if you need - the markup of an English language web page Use DEEP only if your target and *all* its links are - small text files - small English language web pages Use BSOURCE if your target is - a web page in a language which uses diacritics - a web page in a language which does not use the Latin alphabet - a binary file Other: - The Agora server at dna.affrc.go.jp is for requests to research and academic sites only. - Before using Agora, get and read the 'help' file: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with HELP as the message body. - Agora attachments always have the name AGORA.BIN. To save the attachment, give it a name and filetype appropriate for your system, eg: if it is a PDF file, save AGORA.BIN as <something>.pdf - The maximum length of an Agora email is 5000 lines. This is long enough for most web pages and text files, but excludes large uu- encoded binary files. Note that uu-encoded files are significantly larger than the original. - Use DEEP only if you are *certain* that you will be able to read the return pages, and if you *know* that the combined length of the pages is less than 5,000 lines. Examples: Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (anything) with message body: SEND http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.html SOURCE http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.html BSOURCE http://szs.net/emailonly/tiny.gif ============================================================================ If you wish to reply to this post, please remove the word UPDATES: from the subject line of your reply. -- szs `at` szs `dot` net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To contribute to the discussion, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email to the *admin* address [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL as the message body. To get the latest version of the ACCMAIL FAQ, send a blank email to accmail.faq.en `AT` szs.net (replacing `AT` with @ to form a proper email address). ----------------------------------------------------------------------