Re: send e-mail from rpg program?

[Peter Coffin <phcoffin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenneth writes:

> Richard Baird wrote:
> >
> > does anyone know how to send an e-mail from an rpg program?
> >
> > this would run without user interaction.
>
>
> Richard -
>
> A company call Gumbo Software has a very 'slick' package called
> Spoolmail/400 that provides API's to send SPOOLFILES from the AS/400 to
> SNADS or INTERNET e-mail addresses.

If Richard is willing to roll his own, there's a COBOL program in one
of the manuals (OV ones, I think) that converts spoolfiles to FFT
documents when can then be handled by SNDDST. That sounds almost exactly
like what Spoolmail it doing. Sorry, but I don't remember which book...


Peter H. Coffin
phcoffin@us.ibm.com
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