OT: Downloading file by sending email

[Rakhesh Sasidharan]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Is there any port which provides a functionality like this? Or is it 
>> possible to put together such a setup in place? I tried a Google search but 
>> didn't
>
> very easy using just bash curl metamail etc...
>
> but first think about protecting it from abuse like

Thanks Wojciech.

Actually, I am setting this up just for my use. (Place I work doesn't 
allow downloads, and sometimes I need to download a thing or two, so 
thought let me set something like this up for my own use). But your points 
make sense. I'll try and make sure the service isn't abuse-able.

Thanks again for the pointers!

Regards,
Rakhesh


>
> a) someone will use it as spamming machine, writing advert as image, and 
> sending it through your service to 100000 users (using your bandwidth) by 
> using robot that will 100000 times request to send an URL to mail.
>
> b) someone else will be trying to overload your service requesting to mail 
> lots of huge files many times (limit total size+size of one file)
>
>
>
> you must do something like "captcha" or at least - first sending mail without 
> attachment like this
>
> - Someone - possibly you - requested to download and send such files:
>
> URL list here
>
> to your mail.
>
> if it's you, jest use reply with this code: <unique code here>
>
>
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Rakhesh

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