pic@gavin-egan.com wrote:
> Yep the idea being I could send an email with a known subject the account is
> pre-made on my server to only deal with those emails and the rules for the
> email would only accept emails directly from me . Then have say an automated
> download of an ISO (linux distro) for example by putting in a command into
> the message.
>
> I found a command line download program 
> http://www.snapfiles.com/get/wpd.html
> seemed ok but then realised that I could get linux to get files from FTP via
> terminal incredibly easily - just not from HTTP (not that I have tried yet)
>
> Its all just something I am playing with - I don't NEED to be able to do
> this but on those occasions when I might find it useful (upload or download
> etc)
>
>   
I do the same myself. At work we have a T1, which gives me 1.5M, but at 
home on my cable modem I get 8M downstream so downloads are sometimes 
faster there. I SSH in and issue the command:
wget http://fedoramirror.org/iso/disk1.iso &
or whatever. You can wget from HTTP or FTP, and the & at the end puts it 
in the background so even when you log out it continues to download.
To be honest, parsing the email message (unless you plan on using this a 
lot) is more difficult than just logging in via SSH or setting up a VPN 
to access the network.
I looked quickly at the iOpus program you linked above - if you can use 
Linux then wget is what you're looking for. I can't think of a distro 
that doesn't have it, and it's extremely powerful. Look at the command 
line options; you can even use the -r option and download entire 
websites (restrictions of course, and don't bother with PHP sites).
Enjoy!
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