Re: AS/400 E-mail

[David Morris <dmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick,

The APIs turned out to be fairly strait forward.  The thing that is missing is 
a 
description of the type codes and translation character sets.  We do not have 
the manuals that contain that info so I had to use the AnyMail Redbook 
example.  If anyone has a complete list of the mail configuration codes or any 
information about attachment types we would appreciate it.  It turned out that 
translation is not a problem if you know the CCSID's.  I haven't lost a message 
today so it is likely changes we were making to the configuration files and 
system directory caused those earlier problems.

Thanks for your input,

David Morris

>>> Patrick Townsend <townsend@patownsend.com> 03/11 1:49 PM >>>
The AnyMail APIs can be daunting. Have you considered a third party
product? You might look at Net400's product. It has APIs, spool file
distribution, and lots of other stuff.

   http://www.net400.com 

Patrick

David Morris wrote:
> 
> Mail experts,
> 
> We are looking into options for sending E-mail from our AS/400.  We would 
>like to send the mail directly to our GroupWise mail server.  It looks like we 
>have several options.  The first would be to use the AnyMail API's to send and 
>format our messages.  This appears to work OK but in testing the mail 
>sometimes gets "lost".  In some cases mail sent two days prior miraculously 
>appears.  It is possible that this will clear up when the servers are started 
>in a controlled environment.  The other option might be to use the API gateway 
>provided by GroupWise.  This is a NLM that we should be able to connect to and 
>pass message requests.
> 
> In the end we would like to allow a program (ILE) to send a message as an 
>E-mail to a specified SMTP address.  We need this to be reliable, performance 
>is not an issue.  Looking at the AnyMail APIs I have some questions.   With 
>the send mail API what is the 4 character message type?  Is this *PRI, *BCC, 
>etc.?  What about ASCII conversion, will I have to do this or does the API or 
>one of the exit programs do this?  If I have to do this is there a translation 
>table defined for 7-bit ASCII or do I use QASCII?
> 
> Thanks for any guidance,
> 
> David Morris

                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
     
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