RE: Help with sending an Iseries email with attachments

Hi
i have used MMAIL to send emails from AS400 with
success
http://www-922.ibm.com/mmail/start

Ashish

--- "Himes, Jay" <jehimes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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