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Grex Info Item 155: Mail download question
Entered by roz on Fri Jun 17 10:38:18 UTC 1994:

        Can anyone tell me how to download my grex mail to
my home computer?  I telnet in, if that makes any difference.
Thanks.

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by robh on Fri Jun 17 10:47:50 1994:

"write help", folks!  Really!  We can answer this stuff!

If you're using telnet, then Z-Modem and the like probably
won't work.  (From my experience.)  Probably the easiest
thing to do is just print your mail on-screen and do a
text capture with your terminal program.

Accorind to my listing of your directory, you're currently
using Pine, but you've used Elm and regular mail in the
past.  That means your mail is stored in several different
files.  Goofy, isn't it?  What you should do is start
your text capture up, then use the following Unix commands:
(put a ! in front of these if you're at the Ok: prompt)

        cat mbox
        cat Mail/received
        cat mail/saved-messages
        cat mail/sent-messages   (this has the mail you've sent to
                                  other people)

And once you've done that, you'll want to delete these files:

        rm mbox
        rm Mail/received
        rm mail/saved-messages
        rm mail/sent-messages

Make sure they're on your home system before you delete them!
We don't have any way of un-deleting a file on Grex.

#2 of 7 by mju on Fri Jun 17 14:31:29 1994:

(The only problem with "write help" is that other people don't see
the question and answer, and thus can't benefit from it.)

#3 of 7 by roz on Fri Jun 17 21:09:26 1994:

Thanks a lot. Text capture gets messed up here sometimes, I'm not
sure why.  Someone was going to send me instructions on this, but
I think it had slipped their mind.  Just trying to do my part to
help the disk crunch.
BTW, I only tried Elm and Mail when I was at an EMU terminal that
wouldn't support Pine.  If you want to erase whatever  debris they
left in my file, you're more than welcome.

#4 of 7 by kentn on Fri Jun 17 22:17:23 1994:

Is it possible to ftp in?  If that were the case, you could compress
your mail, and then ftp it back to the machine you normally telnet
from.  That assumes you have some sort of disk space allotment on
that telnet machine...

#5 of 7 by davel on Fri Jun 17 23:01:07 1994:

Or through Kermit you may be able to send your stuff across a telnet link.
Compressing it may well be worth while.

#6 of 7 by robh on Fri Jun 17 23:01:08 1994:

Re 2- This is true.  On the other hand, nobody ever seems
to see these items anyway.  >8)

Re 3- roz, you can delete them yourself, that would probably be
better.  Just do "rm mbox" and "rm Mail/received" to kill the
message files left over from mail and Elm, respectively.

#7 of 7 by cicero on Sat Jun 18 04:36:14 1994:

Yes she can do an incoming FTP as I understand it.  Roz, you do an ftp 
grex.cyberspace.org, then you give your user name and pass word
when prompted.  Anonymous ftp doesn't work. you can then do a GET on 
any file you want.

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