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  • Subject: Re: AS/400 E-mail
  • From: Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:49:39 -0800
  • Organization: Patrick Townsend & Associates, Inc.

The AnyMail APIs can be daunting. Have you considered a third party
product? You might look at Net400's product. It has APIs, spool file
distribution, and lots of other stuff.

   http://www.net400.com

Patrick

David Morris wrote:
> 
> Mail experts,
> 
> We are looking into options for sending E-mail from our AS/400.  We would 
>like to send the mail directly to our GroupWise mail server.  It looks like we 
>have several options.  The first would be to use the AnyMail API's to send and 
>format our messages.  This appears to work OK but in testing the mail 
>sometimes gets "lost".  In some cases mail sent two days prior miraculously 
>appears.  It is possible that this will clear up when the servers are started 
>in a controlled environment.  The other option might be to use the API gateway 
>provided by GroupWise.  This is a NLM that we should be able to connect to and 
>pass message requests.
> 
> In the end we would like to allow a program (ILE) to send a message as an 
>E-mail to a specified SMTP address.  We need this to be reliable, performance 
>is not an issue.  Looking at the AnyMail APIs I have some questions.   With 
>the send mail API what is the 4 character message type?  Is this *PRI, *BCC, 
>etc.?  What about ASCII conversion, will I have to do this or does the API or 
>one of the exit programs do this?  If I have to do this is there a translation 
>table defined for 7-bit ASCII or do I use QASCII?
> 
> Thanks for any guidance,
> 
> David Morris
> 
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