Access the Internet using Email Only

www4mail is an open source application that allows you to navigate off-line and search the whole Internet by email, using any standard web browser and an email program.

www4mail servers send you copies of web pages, optionally modified so that hypertext links may be selected and passed to your email program for further browsing.

www4mail is intended for

• people live or work in a country that has an under-developed or unreliable telecom infrasructure
• people anywhere who have access to email, but not to the world-wide web.

To use www4mail at szs.net, you must first subscribe to the ACCMAIL list.

For more information about how to use www4mail at szs.net, please visit our www4mail page.

ACCMAIL is a forum for news, comments, questions and answers on email-only methods: how to browse the World-Wide Web, retrieve files from FTP sites, read and post to Usenet newsgroups -- using email as your only tool. It is closely related to the FAQ with the same name, originally written in 1994 by Bob Rankin, then for many years maintained by the late Gerald Boyd, and now maintained by the moderators and subscribers of the list itself. Since June 2002, the list admin person and moderator has been Sun Zoom Spark, but most of the hard work is done by list members ... 1,000+ helpful people in 80+ countries.

• Mailing List Archives: there is a public archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/accmail@listserv.aol.com/, but as all email addresses are munged to prevent abuse by spam robots, its usefulness is limited. It is much better to be a subscriber, so your information is always fresh. Subscribers have access to the protected archives at http://listserv.aol.com/archives/accmail.html, (which they can also browse or search by email), and may use the www4mail server at szs.net.
• To subscribe to ACCMAIL, send an email to listserv@listserv.aol.com with the following message in the email body:
  SUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL Firstname Lastname
  (where Firstname Lastname are your first and last names).
• To get more information, send an email to listserv@listserv.aol.com with the following message in the email body:
  INFO ACCMAIL

Subscribers may choose to restrict incoming posts to one or more special topics ...

• NEWS -- significant announcements
• UPDATES -- new or edited information for the FAQ document
• PBE -- Publishing By Email, information about putting content on the Internet using email-only methods (previously Website By Email)

Español

ACCMAIL es un forum para noticias, comentarios, preguntas y respuestas acerca de los métodos del solo-correo en cuanto a la navegación por la red mundial, para descargar ficheros de los sitios FTP y para intercambiar con otros grupos de usuarios de la red por medio del correo electrónico como única herramienta.

Para incorporarse a la lista envíe un correo a: listserv@listserv.aol.com, y en el texto de su mensaje (no en la línea del asunto), escriba: SUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL

El servidor de la lista le enviará una solicitud para su confirmación. Por favor, responda a esta solicitud escribiendo ‘ok’ (sin las tildes) en el texto de su mensaje.

Deutsch

ACCMAIL ist eine Mailingliste, die als Diskussionsforum für den Internetzugriff per Email dient. Hier werden Neuigkeiten und Kommentare ausgetauscht und es können Fragen für die Anwendung der Methoden gestellt werden um per Email auf das WWW, FTP (Zugriff auf und Download von Dateien) und Newsgroups zuzugreifen.

Um Mitglied der Mailingliste zu werden reicht eine einfache Email an listserv@listserv.aol.com, die die Worte ‘SUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL’ (ohne Anführungszeichen) enthält.

Der Listserver schickt eine Email zurück, um die Emailadresse zu bestätigen. Auf diese Email muss man antworten und in die Email nur das Wort ‘ok’ schreiben (wieder ohne Anführungszeichen).

The most recent version (10.2) was published in April 2002, and is now very out of date. A new version is being prepared. Meanwhile, the best source of current news and information is the ACCMAIL mailing list.

• ACCMAIL FAQ in English
• Dutch - Toegang tot het Internet per E-mail (version 8)
• Esperanto - Aliro al la interreto pere de retpoŝto
• German - Zugriff auf das Internet per E-Mail
• Hungarian - Az Internet elérése e-mail segítségével (version 10.1)
• Indonesian - Mengakses Internet Dengan E-Mail
• Russian - Доступ к Интернету через электронную почту
• Spanish - Acceso a Internet por Correo-e

• ACCMAILRUS (Russian language discussion)
  To subscribe: accmailrus-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
• SOLOCORREO (Spanish: Intercambiar informacion acerca del acceso a internet usando solo correo electronico)
  Para suscribirte: solocorreo-alta@eListas.net
• WEB_EMIL (Hungarian: A web_emil lista az internet szolgaltatasainak e-meillel torteno eleresevel kapcsolatos kerdesekkel foglalkozik)
  To subscribe: web_emil-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Low impact files for benchmarking output of web-to-email services.

• Test page index