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We do this by:
1) Setting up the i5 POP service. I forget how, but just used Google the first time.
2) Set up a fake user so it could receive e-mail (create user profile and directory entry).
3) Set up a rule so e-mail arriving at the regular server would be forwarded to the address of #2 above.
4) The result is that each e-mail becomes a text file at /QTCPTMM/MAIL/USERNAME where username is #2 above.
5) Write a program that periodically checks, parses, and deletes the files at /QTCPTMM/MAIL/USERNAME
1 to 4 are really easy. The difficulty of 5 depends upon the uniformity of the e-mails. The only places
I am doing this are processing computer-generated e-mails, so parsing the text to fields in an externally defined
file is easy. If the e-mails were free-format human-generated parsing would be a more interesting problem.
Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/22/2008 8:39:47 AM >>>
We currently has a manual process where vendors will send us an email to
request data that they needed in order for them to produce the product
that we need. A group of users at our company are responsible for
monitoring for the email and process the request accordingly. I plan to
automate this process by creating a RPG program that can read the email
and process it automatically. Can anyone provide some pointer on best
way to access/read email thru a RPG program?
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