your ftpmail request has been received

["ftpmail service on inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com" <http://www.Pa.dec.com/~nobody>]

You sent ftpmail a blank message, perhaps thinking that we would look in the
Subject: line for your command.  We ignore the Subject: line other than to
use it as a identifying tag on all the responses we send from each ftpmail
session.  Since we don't know what you want, we're sending you our 'help'
file.  Good luck.


  -- Ftpmail Submission Transcript --
<<< help
>>> Help is on the way.
  -- End Of Ftpmail Transcript --
>>> $Id: help-text,v 1.4 1992/09/29 01:34:33 vixie Exp vixie $
>>>
>>> commands are:

	reply <MAILADDR>	set reply addr, since headers are usually wrong
	connect [HOST [USER [PASS]]]  defaults to gatekeeper.dec.com, anonymous
	ascii			files grabbed are printable ascii
	binary			files grabbed are compressed or tar or both
	chdir PLACE		"get" and "ls" commands are relative to PLACE
					(only one CHDIR per ftpmail session,
					and it executes before any LS/DIR/GETs)
	compress		compress binaries using Lempel-Ziv encoding
	compact			compress binaries using Huffman encoding
	uuencode		binary files will be mailed in uuencode format
	btoa			binary files will be mailed in btoa format
	chunksize SIZE		split files into SIZE-byte chunks (def: 64000)
	ls (or dir) PLACE	short (long) directory listing
	index THING		search for THING in ftp server's index
	get FILE		get a file and have it mailed to you
					(max 10 GET's per ftpmail session)
	quit			terminate script, ignore rest of mail message
					(use if you have a .signature or
					 are a VMSMAIL user)

>>> notes:

	-> you should send complaints to the ftpmail-admin address.  our
	   postmaster does not handle ftpmail problems and you can save her
	   the trouble of forwarding your complaints by just mailing them to
	   the right address.  the "ftpmail-request" address is gone; don't
	   use it.

	-> the "index" command depends on the "SITE EXEC INDEX" feature of
	   some ftp servers.  Gatekeeper.dec.com originated this feature,
	   and ftp.uu.net duplicated it (with a format change to the output,
	   naturally).  Wuarchive.wustl.edu also has this feature, though
	   their index seems to be empty.  The source for an ftpd that
	   supports this feature is on Gatekeeper in /pub/DEC/gwtools.

	-> the "Subject:" of your request will be contained in the "Subject:"
	   of all of ftpmail's responses to you regarding that request.  You
	   can therefore use it to "tag" different requests if you have more
	   than one outstanding at any given time.

	-> you must give a "connect" command, default host is
	   gatekeeper.dec.com, default user is anonymous, default
	   password is your mail address.

	-> binary files will not be compressed unless 'compress' or 'compact'
	   command is given; use this if at all possible, it helps a lot.
	   note that many files are already compressed.  if you use any of
	   the binary-file qualifiers (compress, compact, uuencode, btoa)
	   without setting 'binary' first, your session will abort in error.

	-> binary files will always be formatted into printable ASCII
	   with "btoa" or "uuencode" (default is "btoa").  if you don't
	   use the "binary" command, ftpmail will cheerfully try to mail
	   you the binary data, which will absolutely, positively fail.

	-> all retrieved files will be split into chunks and mailed.  the
	   size of the chunk is 64000 characters unless you change it with
	   the "chunksize" command.  CompuServe users will need to set this
	   to 49000.  there is no way to set it higher than 100000, so please
	   don't ask.

	-> if you ask for more than 10 files in a session, you will receive
	   an error message and your entire request will be rejected.

	-> VMS/DOS/Mac versions of uudecode, atob, compress and compact
	   are available, ask your LOCAL wizard about them if you can't
	   locate them (but try gatekeeper.dec.com in /archive/pub/VMS
	   if you're still using a VMS system.)

	-> several mail unsplitters are hiding on gatekeeper.dec.com in
	   /pub/mail/ua/misc/unsplit.  there is one in c, one in perl,
	   and one in VMS DCL.

	-> there is no way to request only certain parts of a file and we
	   do not plan to add one in the near future, so please don't ask.

	-> there is no way to delete things from the queue or to find out
	   the status of things in the queue, and we do not plan to add
	   either feature in the near future, so please don't ask.

>>> examples:

	-> connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get a root directory listing:
		connect
		ls
		quit

	-> connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get the README.ftp file:
		connect
		get README.ftp
		quit

	-> connect to gatekeeper.dec.com and get the gnuemacs sources:
		connect
		binary
		uuencode
		chdir /pub/GNU
		get emacs-18.58.tar.Z
		quit

	-> connect to ftp.uu.net as anonymous and get a root directory list:
		connect ftp.uu.net
		binary
		chdir /index/master
		get by-name.Z
		quit