Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 21:36:34 +0200 From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Suggest consideration of adding an uploader mail alias to freefall Message-ID: <199508131936.VAA05186@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Hi All, I suggest we consider adding an uploader mail alias to freefall, it would be handy for people like me who have slow access to freefall, & have to sit on an open slip link for a long time, while a file slowly uploads to freefall over a modem link that's rather idle & under utilised. Using the alias we could dump the file to be uploaded in uuencoded form, into our mqueue while we're off line, & our local ISP would then flush our /var/spool/mqueue via sendmail at maximum efficiency, when we established connection. What I suggest is something like what I've tested on my machine: (I get a syntax error, but it does work :-) /etc/aliases: archive-notify: root archive-owner: root archive: archive.0 archive.0: "|/usr/vsl/bin/archive-incoming 0" archive.1: "|/usr/vsl/bin/archive-incoming 1" archive.2: "|/usr/vsl/bin/archive-incoming 2" #! /bin/sh # /usr/p/jhs/src/bsd/ournix/bin/rmail/archive-incoming by <jhs@freebsd.org> PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/vsl/bin export PATH where=/usr/public/mail-incoming-archive (echo "$where/$1" | mail -s "archive.$1" archive-notify) cd $where/$1 || exit 1 #tee -a tmp_name | mail archive-owner cat > tmp_name exec mailname -w tmp_name exit 0 BTW mailname is a c prog I wrote, but it just renames things according to time sent & sender, it's not essential, merely nice. (Obviously we'd swop /usr/public/mail-incoming-archive to ~ftp/incoming ) Would something along these lines be attractive to those remote people who need to upload things to freefall (like I'm doing right now with 130K of pbasic.tar.gz for ports ) ? Julian S
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