RE: Help with sending an Iseries email with attachments

You can use SNDDST to send attachments - this is a snippet from a very
long CL program that sends email - it wouldn't be too hard to roll your
own command based on it.

CPY        OBJ(&REFOUT) +                             
             TOOBJ('/QDLS/EMAIL/Refund.txt') +        
             DTAFMT(*TEXT) REPLACE(*YES)              
SNDDST     TYPE(*DOC) +                               
             TOINTNET((libertyrefunds@xxxxxxxxxxx)) + 
             DSTD('Refund Header') DOC(REFUND.TXT) +  
             FLR(EMAIL)                               

Can you post the full command you are using to call your java and the
actual classpath?



-----Original Message-----
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

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

 

 

 

 

 

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