RE: Help with sending an Iseries email with attachments -- JAVA400-L

Hmm paying out of your own pocket, nice consultant to
have working for a company :-)
any way give a try to MMAIL also..it is free :-)
http://www-922.ibm.com/mmail/start

Ashish

--- White Knight <Wknight2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who responded, that was FAST and
> really appreciated! I'm
> going to try each option folks sent me as a learning
> process. 
> 
> I tried the BVSTOOLS, and it worked and was running
> in literally 10 minutes.
> I'm gonna have to pay for it out of my own pocket,
> but its cheap compared to
> the frustration it just saved me!
> 
> I would still like to know why the javamail isn't
> working. Long term I'm
> going to have to learn anyway, so this is a good
> place to start.
> 
> Ron: OK, I copied everything to /JavaUtil/JavaMail
> as you specified.
> 
> Question: 
> 
> CFGTCP option 20, then option 12, then 3. Parameter
> MAILROUTER is a TCP/IP
> address. 
> CFGTCP open 20, then 12, then 1, the SMPT name is my
> email address,
> Ed@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> So...should the email hostname be companya.com? or
> should it be the
> mailrouter ip address?
> The local host, is that my "system" name, which is
> the box serial number?
> 
> I set up the CLs as you have them. I ran STRMAIL.
> 
> I was getting classpath errors on the
> msgmultisendsample. I then added
> \javautil\javamail\demo' to the end of classpath and
> it went away. Do you
> need to specify every directory the program will
> need in the classpath?
> Since I had \javautil\javamail in the classpath, it
> won't read from Demo, if
> demo is 1 step lower in the tree? 
> 
> Then, I retried the IBM example of RUNJVA as
> follows:
> 
> RUNJVA CLASS(msgmultisendsample)
> PARM(ed@xxxxxxxxxxxx ed@xxxxxxxxxxxx) 
> 
> It brought me into a Javashell display, and I now
> get the following message:
> 
>                                                     
>     Java Shell Display
> 
>  
> 
>    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
> 
>            at
> java/lang/Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:180)
> 
>            at java/lang/Error.<init>(Error.java:37)
> 
>            at
>
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError.<init>(NoClassDefFoundError.java:30)
> 
>            at
>
java/lang/ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:519)
> 
>            at
>
java/security/SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
> 
>            at
>
java/net/URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:289)
> 
>            at
>
java/net/URLClassLoader.access$300(URLClassLoader.java:62)
> 
>            at
>
java/net/URLClassLoader$ClassFinder.run(URLClassLoader.java:607)
> 
>            at
>
java/net/URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:198)
> 
>            at
>
java/lang/ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:316)
> 
>            at
>
sun/misc/Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:265)
> 
>            at
>
java/lang/ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:272)
> 
>            at
>
java/lang/ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:332)
> 
>    Java program completed with exit code 1
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  ===>
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  F3=Exit   F6=Print F9=Retrieve F12=Exit
> 
>  F13=Clear F17=Top  F18=Bottom  F21=CL command entry
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> I'm sorry for the beginner questions...
> Thanks again...
> Ed
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of RPower@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:29 PM
> To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries /
> AS400
> Subject: Re: Help with sending an Iseries email with
> attachments
> 
> I'm successfully using Javamail with RPG?  Here's
> some ideas and I hope I 
> can help.
> 
> Directory  . . . . :   /JavaUtil/JavaMail
> 
> That's where I installed the Javamail utility.
> 
> You have to edit your JavaMail.properties file.  It
> looks like the 
> following:
> email.hosttype=mail.smtp.host 
> email.hostname=youremailhostnamehere 
> email.localhosttype=mail.smtp.localhost 
> email.localhostname=yourlocalhostnamehere 
> 
> Change your hostname to be whatever the name of your
> email hostname is.
> Change the localhostname to be whatever the system
> you are running the 
> apps on that are trying to send the email.
> 
> Now, if you are getting classpath errors, it could
> be because you aren't 
> setting up your classpaths before trying to use
> Javamail.
> I have two CL's created.  One starts the classpath. 
> One stops it.
> 
> STRMAIL     CLP
>
/*********************************************************************/
>              PGM 
>  
>              CHGCURDIR  DIR('/JAVAUTIL/JAVAMAIL/') 
>              ADDENVVAR  ENVVAR(CLASSPATH) + 
>                          
> VALUE('.:/JAVAUTIL/JAVAMAIL/activation.jar:+ 
>                          
> /JAVAUTIL/JAVAMAIL/imap.jar:/JAVAUTIL/JAVAM+ 
>                          
> AIL/mail.jar:/JAVAUTIL/JAVAMAIL/mailapi.jar+ 
>                          
> :/JAVAUTIL/JAVAMAIL/smtp.jar:/JAVAUTIL/JAVA+ 
>                           MAIL/') REPLACE(*YES) 
>  
>              ENDPGM 
> 
> CLSMAIL     CLP
>
/*********************************************************************/
>              PGM 
>  
>              RMVENVVAR  ENVVAR(CLASSPATH) 
>              CHGCURDIR  DIR('/') 
>  
>              ENDPGM 
> 
> You might be missing the CHGCURDIR portion, cause
> that was troublesome for 
> me when I started.  The current directory is used as
> the root, then it 
> looks for the path from that point forward.  If you
> need more help, just 
> shoot.
> 
> 
> Ron Power
> Programmer
> Information Services
> City Of St. John's, NL
> P.O. Box 908
> St. John's, NL
> A1C 5M2
> Tel: 709-576-8132
> Email: rpower@xxxxxxxxxx
> Website: http://www.stjohns.ca/
>
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> loss of enthusiasm. - 
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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