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This article is from the Amiga FAQ, by Ignaz Kellerer with numerous contributions by others.

9.4 Getting files from a Mail server

   Another way to get files is to use a mail server. This assumes that
you can send mail to Internet addresses and get mail from Internet
hosts. It works by sending a mail to the server specifying some
commands, for example send commands for the files you want. Important
mail servers are
     ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
     mailserver@nic.funet.fi
     mailserver@leo.org
     mrcserv@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca
     mail-server@ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de
     mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
     ftp-mail@uni-paderborn.de
The most important commands are:
*Help*
     Tells the server that you wish to get an Ascii file containing
     detailed explanation how to use the server.
*Limit <number>*
     Specifys that you wish to get not more than <number> Kbytes per
     mail.  Larger files get splitted into small pieces of at most
     <number> Kbytes which are sent as separate mails each. Note that
     the mails may get larger because of overhead.
*Cwd <dir>*
     Sets the current working directory to <dir>. This directory is
     used by the commands send and dir.
*Index*
     will return a list of files and/or directories that the server
     offers. Note that this may be *very* large!
*Index <item>*
     returns a list of files containing <item> in their names.
*Dir [<dir>]*
     returns a list of the files and directories in the given directory.
*Send <file1> <file2> ... <fileN>*
     Tells the server to send the given files to you.
*Begin*
     Tells the server to ignore all lines above this command.
*End*
     Like Begin, but specifies to ignore the lines below. (A signature
     for example!) A typical session would be to send the following
mail to the mail server:
     BEGIN
     CD /pub/aminet/util/arc
     SEND LhA_e138.run
     END

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