Re: [exim] FTP access to exim.org not working?

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] FTP access to exim.org not working?
On 2022-12-17 Mike Tubby via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
> Hi All,


> Has something changed w.r.t. FTP access to exim.org?


> I have downloaded new versions of Exim for years using FTP CLI but now I
> can't files from two different hosts and with 'active' or 'passive' modes.


> My end are Devuan 4.0 (like Debian 10 but without systemd) and FTP command
> from Linux NetKit 0.17

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Hello,

Works for me on Debian with lftp.

BTW: Does it still make sense to offer ftp access in addition to
http(s)? Are there still systems that can do the former but not the
latter?

cu andreas


ametzler@argenau:~$ lftp ftp.exim.org
lftp ftp.exim.org:~> set ftp:passive-mode true
lftp ftp.exim.org:~> ls
drwxr-xr-x    5 9012     0            4096 Sep 29 23:18 pub
-rw-r--r--    1 0        0               0 Sep 27 15:35 robots.txt
lftp ftp.exim.org:/> set ftp:passive-mode false
lftp ftp.exim.org:/> ls pub
-rw-r--r--    1 9012     0              11 Jun 22  2010 DATE
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