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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