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Alan Connor

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More options Oct 31 2004, 4:34 pm

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From: Alan Connor <zzz...@xxx.yyy>

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:34:46 GMT

Local: Sun, Oct 31 2004 4:34 pm

Subject: Re: incomming email server at home

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On 31 Oct 2004 07:56:06 -0800, sparks...@centurytel.net

<sparks...@centurytel.net> wrote:
> I want to run some sort of incomming email server on my home
> PC. No for the purpose of recieving person to person email but
> for remote control purposes. I would like to be able to send
> an email to my home system that contains commands that would be
> forwarded on to some other program.

> I could do this with standard email programs and rule sets.
> Just link up to a "real" pop server and filter the incomming
> messages but I want something that runs in the background
> and is reliable. If someone closes the email program (or it
> crashes) then nothing works.

> The idea is to be able to communicate with my home system when
> I am away from a computer. I have a two way pager that can
> send email for example.

Without knowing what OS you are using, specific answers are
problematic, but all you really need to do is to copy a
file from one location to another, and on Unix/Linux, at least,
there are numerous ways to do this, it being the essence of
networking.

What is done with the file on the remote box is up to you.

There is a package (Debian Linux) that contains a remote
execution server/feature, rexecd:

Package: rsh-server
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 168
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herb...@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: netkit-rsh
Version: 0.17-6
Replaces: netstd
Depends: netbase, libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libpam0g (>= 0.72-1)
Filename: pool/main/n/netkit-rsh/rsh-server_0.17-6_i386.deb
Size: 35642
MD5sum: f77a802dfac67b5af3accf79f302421c
Description: rsh servers.
This package contains rexecd, rlogind and rshd.

(I'm sure there is an ssh version of the above.)

Or you could just use a little tcp tool like netcat:

remote box$ netcat -l -p 1234

local box$ cat file | netcat -w 3 1111.2222.3333.4444 1234

Where 1234 is the port and 1111.2222.3333.4444 is the IP of
the remote box, which will just sit there waiting on port
1234 until you send it the file.

If you are using Windows, you have my sympathy.

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