Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!servio!penneyj
From: penneyj@servio.UUCP (D. Jason Penney)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: mail servers
Summary: Ask my mail server for one!
Message-ID: <646@servio.UUCP>
Date: 20 Aug 90 15:16:43 GMT
References: <1990Aug17.021921.1863@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Aug20.063058.20175@fiver>
Reply-To: penneyj@servio.UUCP (D. Jason Penney)
Organization: Servio Logic Development Corp.; Beaverton, OR
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From article <1990Aug17.021921.1863@chinet.chi.il.us>, by les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell):
> There was some discussion of mail server programs for unix machines
> a while ago but not I can't find the information.  I'm interested
> in something that would provide a simple way to retreive files
> by sending mail messages to a server program.  What are the choices
> and where can I find them?

Hi, this went out last Spring, so it's probably time to post again.
My SPARCstation-1 has a mail server which is a variant of KISS.  It doesn't
require root privilege to build or install.  The mail server provides
copies of perl, rcs, Reactive Keyboard, and other goodies, as well as the
necessary software for the mail server, of course.  The most popular offering
seems to be the public domain software for touch typing.

Below is the help file for my mail server.
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	      HELP FOR jason-archive, as of 27 Apr 1990

This is a variant of the "kiss" archive server.  Requests to this
server should be addressed to penneyj@slc.com, and include the
phrase, "jason-archive-request" in the subject.

To contact a human, make sure that "jason-archive-request" is NOT in
your Subject: line.

The Subject: line is otherwise ignored.  The remainder of the mail 
message should consist of "kiss" commands, one per line.  Lines that do
not form a valid command are ignored.

You may request multiple files in a single mail message.  There is no
advantage in splitting the requests into multiple mail messages.

The server recognizes six commands. They are:

path <path>     This lets the requestor override the address that is normally 
		be extracted from the header.  If you do not hear from the 
		archiver server within oh, about 2 days, you should consider 
		adding a "path" command to your request.  The path describes 
		how to mail a message from slc.com to your address.  Overriding
		the path can also reduce uunet charges (see below).

		slc.com is directly connected to ogicse and uunet.  I strongly 
		prefer that your replies be routed through ogicse.
		Domain-based addresses are preferred, such as:

		path luser@baz.foo.bar.edu

		(These will be automatically routed through ogicse.)
		An example without domain routing:

		path ogicse!foo!oof!bar!rab!luser

help            This message.  It equivalent to the command "send help".

index           This is equivalent to the command "send index".

send <whatever> The whatever is mailed to you.  Examine the index to see what 
		is currently available.  Wildcards are NOT supported -- if you 
		want multiple files, you should ask for them separately, one 
		per line.

		Filenames are relative to a kiss "data" directory.  All files
		except "index" and "help" are in subdirectories, so you will
		need to prepend a directory path, Unix style.  Filenames are
		case-sensitive.

compress	ALL of the files requested in the current mail message will be 
		"compressed" and "xxencoded".  "xxencode" is NOT compatible 
		with uuencode, so you will need to acquire misc/Xxencode01 
		BEFORE using this.

		xxencode is preferred over uuencode because the latter is
		useless on some BITNET sites using non-ASCII character sets.
		This is related to translation problems in some Internet/Bitnet
		gateways.

		If your system does not have compress, a public domain version
		is available in misc/.

		This is the most economical way to move files, but again,
		you will need to upload misc/Xxencode01 in a separate message, 
		and possibly misc/NCompress01 and misc/NCompress02 as well.

quit            Nothing past this point is interpreted. This is provided so
		that the occasional lost soul whose signature contains a line
		that looks like a command can still use the server without
		getting a bogus response.
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D. Jason Penney           Ph: (503) 629-8383
Beaverton, OR 97006       uucp: ...uunet!servio!penneyj (penneyj@slc.com)
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