www4mail is an open source application, that allows you to navigate off-line and search the whole Internet via electronic mail (e-mail) by using any standard Web browser and a MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Exchange) aware e-mail program. E-mail messages sent to www4mail servers get automatically passed to your e-mail agent when you select (one or more) buttons that link to other Web documents within a requested Web page. There are many options available for user quota statistics, e-mail uuencoding reply, etc. A few of these are described in the USERs Manual.

Frequently Asked Questions (for Users): What is www4mail? How to use www4mail? Asking for Further On-line Help Receiving Web documents as e-mail attachment Receiving Web documents in the body of a message Dealing with Frames Typing Long URLs Automatic Splitting of Messages Message Splitting Upon Request Retrieving Any Part of a Split Message UUENCODING Messages Retrieving Web pages as PostScript or PDF files Requesting Password-protected Web/FTP sites www4mail Quota Limits www4mail Access Control List (ACL) FTP and Binary Files via www4mail Special www4mail Options Disclaimer

Updated Information and help on the www4mail service can be retrieved by sending an e-mail To: www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it Subject: (... whatever you like) and writing in the body of the message: help You can also use any of the strings listed beside and any free server listed in www4mail.org.

help cookies help denials help end help errors help forms help get help getpart help getps help getpdf help getsize help quota help send help source help split help tsource help xbase help xbyjs help xbypass help xcharset help xclearcookies help xdelayjob help xdeletejob help xdocinfo help xdisablecookies help xform help xextraopt help xget help xformreply help ximage help xjsdump help xloadimg help xlanguage help xloadurl help xmime help xmylang help xmultimime help xmyquota help xnoautozip help xnoframe help xnocookies help xnostat help xnoscript help xsource help xseparate help xurlcode help xsubmit_now help xusepost help xsubmit_on help xuseqp help xuudeview help xuuencode

www4mail:

• delivers most types of Web documents (with a variety of HTML tags, (java)scripts, cookies and metatags; handles dynamical contents, frames, etc).
• Parses HTML (text) and source HTML.
• Preserves the original layout of the requested Web pages.
• Retrieves information from FTP sites, USENET news servers:
  (i.e., ftp://site/path/file and gopher://site/path/file).
• Supports Web Forms (GET or POST) to conduct Web database searches. (When posting it is also possible to have a URL containing a ? sign).
• Sends replies as e-mail attachments, or in the body of an e-mail message depending on the type of request (options) sent by the e-mail client through the Web browser.
• Handles MetaTags. That is, if a web page is re-directed or re-located by the use of a META statement, www4mail automatically warn you about the possible re-location of the information and provided suitable links for the new location at the top of the reply page.
• Handles FRAMES. When a requested document contains frames, www4mail inserts suitable links to each framed document.
• Supports user authentication for password-protected Web/FTP sites.
• Error messages such as password & username required are trapped by www4mail and sent back to the user.
• Web pages that are entirely dynamic (i.e., created on-the-fly) are also supported. But the page content varies with different browsers.
• Provides support for text only access for compatibility with the alternative "Agora" and "GetWeb" Web-Mail servers.
• Serves filtered requests to reduce bandwidth. Transfer of binary data is also supported.
• Supports MIME, the Internet standard for representing multipart and multimedia data in e-mail.
• Support uuencode as an alternative to MIME.
• Allows to retrieve PostScript and PDF versions of HTML pages.
• Allows to retrieve HTML documents having links for pictures or images.
• Allows to retrieve multi-lingual versions of HTML pages, where available.
• Allows encrypted https transactions.
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• ICT Stories - Kabissa - Space for change in Africa, winner of the 2002 ICT Stories Competition of InfoDev

• Articles:
  www4mail: A Bit of Web-for-Email History
  www4mail on the Run
  www4mail Technicalities - A Road Map, Statistics, and Future Developments
  Article appeared on InformIT - a Pearson Education, Inc. division- on 8 Dicember 2001.

  ICTP's eJournals Delivery Service (eJDS) - News from ICTP, No. 98, Autumn 2001

  Il web puo` essere un lusso - Per molti arriva via e-mail

  Article appeared in la Repubblica Italian Newspaper, on 21 November 2001.

  Sud del Pianeta Un modello di cooperazione studiato a Trieste

  Article appeared in Il Piccolo Newspaper of Trieste, Italy on 15 July 2001.

  Special Delivery - News from ICTP, No. 95, Winter 2001

  (also reproduced in Kabissa-Fahamu Newsletter No.22, May 2001).

  Low-Bandwidth Communication Tools for Science - Linux Journal #75, July 2000 (Strictly On-Line)

  Enhancing Electronic Collaboration in the South - Nature 398, 744 (1999).