Help with sending an Iseries email with attachments

Can anyone help me? I'd be eternally grateful :-)

 

The Director of IS was thinking the iseries is an old legacy box, and could
not even send email. I made the mistake of telling him the iseries is state
of the art and CAN send email. Unfortunately, I now have a project due in 1
week to have some of our programs sending emails with attachments from the
iseries. 

 

We are at V5R2. I managed, with some pain, to get the TCP SMTP configured, I
can now use SNDDST to send email from the AS/400. But I can't use that to
send an email with a PDF and CSV attachment from the IFS. So, I googled
email and iseries, and found the Javamail page on the IBM website. 

 

First question is, is there a "blackbox" utility out there where I can have
a CL program call the blackbox, passing a from, to, cc email address and the
path to the attachment files, and it will take care of it? I tried reading
through the documentation, and it seems overly complex to do something that
seems fairly routine from a business perspective. I'm concerned I won't be
able to support my case of state-of-the-art if it really is that cumbersome
and complicated just to send an email.

 

Anyway, the documentation on the IBM website says to install the files to
the IFS. Where on the IFS?? In the root itself? In a subdirectory? Via
Iseries Navigator, I created a directory off of root called javamail and put
all the files there (from the javamail area on the Sun website). So,
mail.jar and activation.jar are in these directories.

 

When I run the examples given on the IBM website, I get a classpath error.
The Classpath they define in their example is
'.:/home/mail.jar:/home/activation.jar'   Since the mail.jar is in a
directory called javamail, I assumed I would substitute "home" for
"javamail" in the classpath statement. No dice. Can anyone help? If this
question is too basic for this discussion group, please contact me offline
wknight2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

I really need some help, I've struggled with this for 2 days and my stress
level is off the charts. I tried reading the java docs on the Sun website,
but I am 100% new to Java and it is way over my head. I just assumed there
were some simple to use utilities out there for this or pre-built routines
that you just pass parameters too, or that the documentation would be more
specific. I do realize I need to buy a book on Iseries Java, but I don't
know if it will cover getting email to work or if I can learn what I need to
learn in time.

Again, I would REALLY be grateful if someone has a few minutes to get me off
and running with this.

Thanks in advance!

Ed