Re: ftp

On Sat, 7 Apr 2018, GLEN HERRMANNSFELDT wrote:

> 
> I did know about Mark, but that doesn't explain why ftp.cac.washington.edu is gone.

I'd guess that's either an "oops" that nobody there has noticed yet or a 
conscious decision to shut down something that they've long deprecated.

> I did find that the Greek mirror is up, so the files are available.
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> 
> The one I was interested in is imap.tar.Z, which is available from Greece.
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> 
> Panda could be interesting, but if I want TOPS-20, I use the one at LCM.
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> What I was actually interested in, is a program that will bulk download the whole mail file from an imap server.
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> Seems to me that should be easy to do with the iMAP toolkit, but also that someone else might have done it.
>

What specifically are you trying to do?

In the old UW imap kit there was a directory 'imap-utils' that contained a 
bunch of small utilities:
   chkmail  dmail  icat  ifrom  imapcopy  imapxfer  mbxcopy  mbxcreat 
mbxcvt  mlock  tmail

When Mark updated his distro he re-organized things (made tmail dmail 
mlock have their own directories, merged the functionality of chkmail 
imapxfer  mbxcopy  mbxcreat into a single utility "mailutil", and dropped 
those that he didn't think important enough to support, icat  ifrom).

All of those tools are predicated on the "c-client" kit.
So I'd suggest getting a modern imap kit, build it and look at 'mailutil' 
to see if it will do what you need.

If you're interested in looking at the sources of those old imap-utils (EG 
icat, ifrom, etc) I can put them up for download.

Dave