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Hi Thomas,

I recommend (as I stated earlier) providing a configuration of some sort. (Maybe it's just a data area or an environment variable). Have the user set the SMTP server in that configuration.

Then tell JavaMail (or whatever software you decide to use) to use the SMTP server from the configuration. Personally, I'm partial to writing my own in RPG -- I have little interest in using JavaMail, I'd rather have a pure RPG solution that does the same thing -- but it doesn't matter to this discussion. The point is, have a per-installation configuration value somewhere that tells your software what the SMTP server is, and then communicate with that SMTP server.

If you want to connect to the SMTP server on the same system, use 'localhost' as the host name. If you want to connect to one elsewhere (on the Internet -- provided you've been given authorization to do so -- or on the LAN -- many companies provide a central SMTP server on Windows or Linux) then all you have to do is set the host name to right name and you're set.

I doubt very much that Yahoo! will let you use their mail server, but if they do, all you'd have to do is set their mail server in the configuration.



Thomas Garvey wrote:
I think a description of what I'm trying to do would help.

I have a batch process that creates a spooled file, which is converted into
a pdf file (stored in the IFS). This pdf file needs to be sent, as an
attachment, to an e-mail address. This whole process needs to be able to
work on any and all iSeries (from v5r3 and up) without having to do any mail
server setup or modification to any configuration. The e-mail destination
is NOT a user found on the iSeries.

So, it seemed that using JavaMail wrapped in RPG would allow me to avoid use
of SNDDST (which has user profile and configuration problems for me), and
MIGHT allow me to use a mail server reference of my choice (as it appears
that setting the mail server name is all I need). If the SMTP server was
configured on the iSeries the process finds itself running on, then it could
use IT. If the iSeries is NOT configured as a mail server (or the SMTP
server was not active), the JavaMail properties might allow me to use
another server (like YAHOO.COM?), as long as the iSeries could talk to the
world over TCP/IP.

I know I may be dreaming here, but it sure seems like there should be a way
to do what I need to do.

If I've been smoking the wrong kind of tobacco here, let me know.

Tom Garvey


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