From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 14:48:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99DD8151DB for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:48:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.198.197]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA1CC8; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:48:22 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA23932; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:48:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:48:20 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Gleb Belorustsev Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: getting FreeBSD by e-mail Message-ID: <20000118234820.Q12908@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <17843.000118@sc.skbkontur.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <17843.000118@sc.skbkontur.ru>; from glb@mail.ru on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 08:15:07PM +0500 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20000118 19:25], Gleb Belorustsev (glb@mail.ru) wrote: >FreeBSD 3.4 Release Notes: > >"If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your > only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to > `ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message > to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism." > >My mail-server replys >"550 ... Host unknown (Name server: > ftpmail.vix.com: host not found)" Have you also tried contacting postmaster@vix.com and asking _why_ ftpmail was withdrawn? This in turn allows us to update the appropriate handbook sections so that others won't run into the same problem by someone not investigating hard enough to correct the problem at hand. >If ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com does not work, how can I fetch files >from ftp.freebsd.org by e-mail? Hell if I know. Tried a websearch on ftpmail? -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd W/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/B-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project A Circle of Angels, deep in war... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message