Found this whilst reading about 'iPod slurping' and remembered this thread.
http://www.sharp-ideas.net/archives/000049.html "The premise of RPC-Mail is simple. Construct an e-mail message that has a command that you want one of your remote PCs to execute. Send the e-mail to a special account that is only used by RPC-Mail. Have the remote PC set up with a scheduled task or cron job to periodically execute the application RPC-Mail.py. When RPC-Mail.py executes, it parses all of the subject lines and message bodies of e-mail messages that it finds. If the message body contains a special passphrase, RPC-Mail executes the subject line as a command, and returns standard output as an e-mail message." Might be of use to you. Cheers, Rob. On 6/15/05, Visser, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Rob Sharp email/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://sharp.id.au pgp: 0E2C C63B BA04 DEB4 7CC0 84FD 17E3 6AA4 87FB 62DF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
