• Most of these servers are operated as a public service, by volunteers. There is no charge for the service. Please restrict your searches to essential information.


• Find here FTPMail, Agora, etc. statistics
• For best results, use the server closest to you.
• Find here Boyd's list of defunct servers
• A must-read, anyway G.E. Boyd's Everything by Email Web Page
• Your first task should be to send an 'HELP'-message to your favourite server.
• Note: This function was originally made available for Internet users who have email but no ftp access. It has become an alternative to ftp. There is a catch (there is no such thing as free lunch :-): it is not an efficient use of bandwidth because the size of the uuencoded file is larger than the original file, more data is carried across the network. Because of this, some postmasters frown upon users who abuse this facility.

ftpmail is a widely available package, which allows the user to submit FTP requests by email.
The receiving service interprets the commands and invokes an FTP service in the normal way (usually, but not necessarily on the same machine). The normal output from the FTP service is emailed back to the user.
A number of additional commands are also available to control the ftpmail server itself. These allow the user to choose options relating to the encoding or compression of data files and the splitting of data files into manageable sized sections.
A full log of the server's activities is produced. Requests are queued and there is the capability to cancel jobs.

Follow the instructions when making a request.

Files as received are normally split into segments which are uuencoded. You need a decoder to decode the files. To uudecode the whole file either:

• rename the segments giving them files names with consecutive numbers (e.g. f1.uue f2.uue ...) and point uudecode to the first file in the sequence; or

• concatenate the segments in their correct order, strip out the two introductory lines in all but the first segment, and uudecode the whole file.

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