Eufrates Mailfile

When you want to upload images such as jpg and gif files to be included in your web page, use your email program (such as Eudora or the email function of Netscape) to send the file as a file attached to an email message.

Create an email message to 'mailfile@elstore.com' and make the subject line your Eufrates login name, an exclamation point (Unix gurus call this a 'bang'), and your Eufrates password.

Eufrates has a special program called MailFile that accesses the mailfile mailbox once a minute, reads and translates any messages there, and puts the resulting file in your Eufrates web page directory, using the same name the file has on your system. So if you email the file myface.jpg to Eufrates, it will be called myface.jpg on Eufrates also.

Then you put the name 'myface.jpg' in one of your Eufrates page items in the 'ImageURL' blank, update the page item, and regenerate the page with the image attached to it.

The MailFile program will send you a confirmation message, which may take several minutes to propagate thru the Internet.

So if your Eufrates login name is hank, and your password is snark, you would email the file to mailfile@elstore.com with a subject line of hank!snark . Eufrates ignores the email message itself, and only reads the file attachment.

Please use 'base64' encoding (this is pretty standard on PC emailers, but some MacIntoshes default to 'binhex' which Eufrates does not understand.)

You can also mail us the actual photos for us to scan, but we have to charge you for that and it takes a while. We will be announcing this service as it becomes available.

Check your response message from MailFile because if you get the name and password wrong, it will tell you. You can also email entire web pages to Eufrates. If you do this, of course, you won't have them in the Eufrates database and you will have to create your own html.

Why would you want to do this? If you had a mailto form, for example, or you wanted to do the html yourself, but you like the convenience of a web host where you can email the web pages in instead of using ftp for file transfer.

In this case you can use the 'view source' function on your web browser to 'download' the html to you, and use the Eufrates MailFile function to 'upload' it after you have changed it.

If this sounds like gobbledygook to you, ignore it. The only thing most users will use MailFile for is uploading images.

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