RE: Help with sending an Iseries email with attachments

Cheap and easy to use:

http://www.bvstools.com/mailtool.html

Download it and you'll be done today.

I've used this one too:
http://www.ariadnesoftware.com/Communique.htm

HTH,

Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

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> From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of White Knight
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:46 PM
> To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Help with sending an Iseries email with attachments
> 
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> Can anyone help me? I'd be eternally grateful :-)
> 
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> 
> 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. 
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> 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
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