Believe it or not, in days when the Internet wasn't quite grown up (early 90's of last century) some people only had email access to the internet. There were actually mail servers setup that you could email an instruction which would
1. ftp download the file 2. break it up into little bits 3. ASCII encode it (probably uuencode, a bit like base64) 4. And then send the bits as separate emails (of course the little bits was to get over restrictions in email size that a lot of people had) You could then download your email and I think then run a script to reassemble the file. (Come to think of it the emails might even have been a shell script - like a shell archive). When I worked at my previous employer I used this a few times to get a file that I just had to have overnight, but that I couldn't sit around and wait for. Martin Visser, CISSP Network and Security Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail: martin.visserAThp.com This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify HP immediately by return email and then delete the email, destroy any printed copy and do not disclose or use the information in it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Voytek Sent: Sunday, 12 June 2005 3:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SLUG] Execution via email ? are there any scripts to allow execution of an arbitrary commands via email, with the output via return email ? Or, request a file that is then sent via email ? Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
