Hi folks, CPAN VIA EMAIL IS BACK ON THE AIR!
This past weekend my main server's hard drive melted down... After many sleepless days and nights, she is alive and well (of course, I had to upgrade to the latest SuSE 8.1, and, boy, that led to problem after problem - please email me if you are planning this move!) Along with my brand new server, CPAN via email is back on the air! For those of you new to these lists, or who haven't heard of this service, here is a snippet from my original announcement: > Have you ever been at a customers' site and > found out the Perl module you thought > _everyone_ had on their system wasn't? > > OK, no sweat. Jump on the office manager's > computer to download it from CPAN - oops - > the sysadmin has installed a new firewall > precluding web downloads/no one has ever > downloaded anything before and who knows what > the proxy server's IP is/the sysadmin just > plain won't let you download the module for > security reasons (and he sees you as a threat > to his job). > > Well - say no more. > > This weekend I built CPAN via email (using > XMail's message filtering/Jenda's Mail::Sender/ > etc.) You can SEARCH CPAN and DOWNLOAD modules > via email. > > Please try it by sending a message with a blank > subject line to: > > mailto:cpan@;beaucox.com > > Please let me know what you think. (Is anyone out > there old enough to remember ftp-mail?) In addition, I have added the "documentation" command ("d") which works like the "get" command but only returns the README (if present), Changes, and the main HTML document. COMING SOON: PPM's on demand. CPAN via email is being modified to build and return PPD files; this service is intended to help some of our compiler-challenged Win32 friends! Aloha => Beau. PS: Jenda - I'm using Mail::Sender's 'keepconnected' - so far so good! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
