Re: Help with sending an Iseries email with attachments

This is good code...I use it.

On 6/23/05 03:39 PM, "albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a tool online called RPGMail that interfaces to the JavaMail API's
> from RPG. It is freely available and best of all doesn't require the iSeries
> SMTP server.  You can instead route the email to any smtp server you have
> access to.
> 
> It is on this site: http://mowyourlawn.com
> 
> HTH,
> Aaron Bartell
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of White Knight
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:46 AM
> To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Help with sending an Iseries email with attachments
> 
> 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. 
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> 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.
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> 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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