Re: Help with sending an Iseries email with attachments

Hi Ed,

I missed your email last week. A while back I wrote a pair of articles
that describe setting up and running JavaMail on the iSeries along with
a some sample programs. Here are the links:

http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg051204-story04.html 
http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg102704-story01.html 

David Morris

>>> Wknight2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/23/05 10:45 AM >>>
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