FireShare was a set of Applescripts that allowed you to serve files via electronic mail using MailShare back in the nineties. Other people send e-mail to specific addresses on your computer, and FireShare responded with the requested information.
When I wrote FireShare, it was the only application that could do such things. Nowadays there are at least two free, and better, mailing list and fileservers (at the time I wrote this, the ones I meant were AutoShare and Macjordomo). If you would like to see the Applescript source for FireShare, however, drop me a line.
If you are still using Apple Internet Mail Server, née MailShare, and now called Eudora Internet Mail Server, you might find my Using MailShare: How to Queue Files up for AIMS of interest.
Believe it or not, auto-reply services that came back with huge files and even software packages were quite common. You don’t see them too much any more, because they were too easily abused to flood someone’s mailbox.
- Using MailShare: How to Queue Files up for AIMS
- Using MailShare, Apple Internet Mail Server, or possibly Eudora Internet Mail Server, to queue up files to go out by Applescript.
More Information
- Eudora Internet Mail Server
- Eudora Internet Mail Server is a simple mail solution if you don’t want to fiddle with postfix or sendmail, and don’t want to get the full-fledged Mac OS X Server. EIMS has a long history of serving mail from Macintosh computers, and, as MailShare was one of the first, if not the first, easy to use mail servers.
- Macjordomo
- Of the two mailing list packages on the net, this is the easiest to use. It’s free. It can handle up to ten mailing lists with 30,000 subscribers per list. I’m not sure it’s still available, but I’ll bet you can find it if you look around.
