Re: Email on the AS/400

At 10:14 AM 5/2/97 -0500, Michael wrote:
>I have been lurking for about nine months, so my 
>approach is humble in grovelling to the mailing list 
>for information.
>
>We have an AS/400 (510/RISC) running V3R6, soon 
>to be V3R7.  Our users access the AS/400 via 5250
>green-screen dumb terminals.
>
>We need a decent email program for these users.
>
>I have reviewed OfficeVision/JustMail400, NetMail400,
>and Qmail, and they have all proven to be inadequate.
>
>We need:
>
>* a basic interface, with a minimal number of steps
>  required for sending and reading email

-Handled with Office/400; we just gave users a menu option which lets them
access selected Office/400 options.

>* a mechanism that notifys the user that they have
>  received email when they're in other programs

-If the mail is sent as 'Urgent' or 'priority,' it arrives in the user's
mailbox and also send a break message to their terminal.  

>* a pop-up "address book" with the ability to alias
>  email addresses

-It's there.  When you want to send mail, you prompt with F4 to see the list
of all people registered in Office/400.

>* connectiviy to our PC email system (MS Exchange)
>  or at least an SMTP gateway (AS/400 users could
>  send pc users Internet email)

-All of our AS/400 users, whether green screen or PC, can send and receive
text-only email to The Internet via a SNADS-to-SMTP gateway.  We've written
a program that allows users to add Internet Aliases (Alii?) and the
corresponding Directory Entry to allow them to send and receive EMail.

>* file attachments (is there any way possible
>  to let green-screen AS/400 users view attached
>  MS Word documents, like Resoft's file conversion
>  software for OV/400?)

Well, you've got me here.  We're on v3.1.0, and currently can't deal with
attachments.  However, v3.2.0 supposedly solves that problem.  It allows the
AS/400 to be used as a POP mail server.


--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com

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