Re: FTP upload by email

2000-04-14 Thread Chris Wagner
I should also add that there will have to be some kind of time sensitivity or other uniqueness test. Otherwise some malicious intermediary could intercept the message and save it for a while and then resubmit it into the mailstream. The destination would authenticate the message and old data woul

Re: FTP upload by email

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Wagner
Yeah, it's pretty much mandatory that the encoded file be encrypted and signed. I know of programs that will email files TO you. Never heard of one that YOU could email a file to. But I think it's definately feasible. A simple pipe to a script should do the trick. +-

Re: FTP upload by email

2000-04-13 Thread Phil Pennock
Typing away merrily, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced the immortal words: > procmail can not do this, can it ? Can't it? Something like (untested): < ~upload/.procmailrc >- :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] { :0 hc * ^X-Authenticate-token: \/

Re: FTP upload by email

2000-04-13 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> customerx does not have a direct connection to the internet. he only can > sends mail over a mail exchanger. But he should be able to update a file > on the firms webserver. therefor he have to send this file as an > attachment to the server who now have to put it in the right directory. ok. i th

Re: FTP upload by email

2000-04-13 Thread hendriks
> > I need a programm with which I can upload files by email. I want to pipe > > the mails to its stdin and it should put it to a special directory or what > and whats wrong with procmail? An example: customerx does not have a direct connection to the internet. he only can sends mail over a mail

Re: FTP upload by email

2000-04-13 Thread John Haggerty
Not off the top of my head. I know of programs that have been floating around to facilitate the transfer of files from anonymous (and possible authenticated) ftp sites to the email address of the user. The options were a little vague and I decided against it for various reasons. One of the biggest

Re: FTP upload by email

2000-04-13 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> I need a programm with which I can upload files by email. I want to pipe > the mails to its stdin and it should put it to a special directory or what and whats wrong with procmail?

FTP upload by email

2000-04-13 Thread hendriks
Hi, I need a programm with which I can upload files by email. I want to pipe the mails to its stdin and it should put it to a special directory or what ever. any open source software like that ? Kind regards, achim hendriks mediagenic services