Re: Have AS/400 act on an email message

You could setup Journalling of the IFS directory where the messages will
end up.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/cl/strjrn.htm



-------------------------
 Bryan Dietz
3X Corporation
614-410-9205

midrange-l-bounces+bdietz=3x.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/26/2003 10:29:40
AM:

> How would I get the AS/400 to act on an email message? For example, the
> mailman mailing list software lets you put commands in a message body,
and a
> program acts on the message when received.
>
> I get an email from our material planners every Friday for the parameters
> for our weekly MRP submission. Now the MRP submission is mostly
automated,
> once I have these parameters. What I would like is for the planner to
send
> an email to the AS/400, and have a program grab the email body, verify
the
> MRP parameters (done), and run the MRP submission program.
>
> I know I must set up POP3 on the 400, but where/how do I hook to run
custom
> programs when emails are received? Any pointers to doco welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Loyd
>