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Following Links to Other Web Pages

Browsing the Web by e-mail! (or SMTP)

Web pages usually contain links to other pages, whether to other pages in the same Web Server or another. To follow links to other Web pages depends on whether you want www4mail replies to be sent as attachments or in the body of an e-mail message.

When www4mail replies with the requested Web document as an e-mail attachment, then the Web page gets filtered. When this is displayed on your Web browser, it will show up some (click-able) buttons before each highlighted line representing the hypertexts that link to other Web documents. This feature is added by www4mail to facilitate you to navigate the Internet by simply selecting such buttons. After you have selected documents (or binary files like pictures), click the `Get Selected Document(s) button at the footer of the Web page to make a new, single e-mail request to www4mail. E-mail messages will get automatically passed to your e-mail agent provided your browser is configured to send e-mails.

When www4mail replies to a SEND or GET request, then the requested Web document is sent in the body of the message. The Web page is sent as a plain-text document containing numbers in `[]' brackets which indicate hyperlinks. The respective URLs are listed at the bottom of the message. In this case you can request such listed pages with a single e-mail to www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it with the body containing one or up to 5 GET or SEND requests.

When www4mail replies to a SOURCE or GET SOURCE request, then the requested Web document will be sent unmodified in the body of a message. (You may also use the options XSEPARATE, XMYQUOTA).


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