Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest V4 #376

Jim,

Net400 (now a part of ROI) is a partner company and they handle attachments.
http://www.net400.com

Patrick
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Langston" <jimlangston@conexfreight.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest V4 #376


> I promised I wouldn't reply to this list since I'm usually wrong but...
>
> To do it yourself, download the RFC for the MIME format:
> http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2045.html
> and the specs in the header field:
> http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2183.html
>
> or, buy a program to do this for you.  I was evaluating a number of
> AS/400 e-mail packages, and a few of them would detach attachments into
> separate files.  Keyesmail being the one I remember.
>
> If you do decide to write your own MIME detacher, may I request you make
> it public domain?  That's the only reason I haven't written my own e-mail
> program for the AS/400 yet, the MIME extraction is the biggest part.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:17:34 -0500
> From: "Leland, David" <dleland@Harter.com>
> Subject: E-mail attachment
>
> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
> this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
>
> - ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0C690.BE917D50
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>         charset="windows-1252"
>
> Does anyone have a routine for retrieving the attachment for an e-mail
sent
> to the AS/400?  We have setup an e-mail address to receive a CSV file (as
an
> attachment) to our AS/400 - the e-mail gets recieved into
> /qtcptmm/mail/csv_user/.  I'd like a program to be able to read thru the
> e-mail (the e-mail is a file and is usually named something like
> "JW072019.NOT") and copy the attachment and create an actual IFS file from
> it.  When I look at the .NOT file, I can see all the data in there but it
> looks like it's formatted a special way because each line only goes to 64
> characters and then there is usually an equal sign and then it's wrapped
to
> the next line.  So, I can't just read it straight in and then write it
out.
> Also, I haven't figured out how to know where to start and stop reading.
>
> Just wondered if anyone had done anything like this yet?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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