OT: Downloading file by sending email

Olivier Nicole on at cs.ait.ac.th
Tue Jan 29 21:36:37 PST 2008


> I want to setup a service such that sending a mail to say 
> "someaddress at mydomain" with a list of links per line results in my machine 
> downloading the files at these links replying with all these files 
> attached.

Although I don't know of such a service (I recall hearing about such
service ages ago) it sounds not too difficult to built, for example in
Perl, using Curl for downloading and some Perl modules to build a MIME
email to send back.

Bests,

Olivier


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