RE: Homegrown v3r2 send internet email - POSSIBLE?

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Hi Tom,

>contacting the iCTC (IBM's Custom Technology Center)

How would I get in contact with them?  Do you have a phone #, web site,
email address?

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thomas@inorbit.com [SMTP:thomas@inorbit.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 9:15 PM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Homegrown v3r2 send internet email - POSSIBLE?
>
> Dan:
>
> On Tue, 09 October 2001, "Bale, Dan" wrote:
>
> > I have spent way too much time on this.  I have searched for threads
> in
> > the archives, I have looked at the redbook for AS/400 email
> > capabilities, I have reviewed several web sites that have info
> specific
> > to setting up SMTP, and I have been, so far, unsuccessful.  (Maybe
> too
> > much information???)  Nothing I have seen describes how to set up
> > outgoing email from a V3R2 system that does not have OfficeVision
> > installed.
> >
> > Simple question:  Is it possible, from a V3R2 AS/400, to send
> internet
> > email without third-party software?  And without OfficeVision
> installed?
>
> Yes, it's possible, but it's been so long since I saw V3R2 I can't
> remember any details.
>
> If you decide to create your own functions (e.g., via sockets
> programming), I suggest you start with contacting the iCTC (IBM's
> Custom Technology Center) to see if they'll still supply their TCP/IP
> Sockets API package. It was still free for the basic client-side APIs
> last year. I used those on V3R2 to write a POP client in CL (!) and
> even a very basic SMTP client. I have no problem using the iCTC APIs
> even on current releases, but I've long since graduated to doing my
> own. They are great for prototyping and for learning what various
> TCP/IP applications expect. They're actually pretty good even for
> production stuff.
>
> Tom Liotta
>
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