Re: Sending E-mail

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

If you can get the reports into a database file in the format you want
you can send them to an Internet recipient with the SNDDST command.
Depending on the version of OS/400 you have you may need to pick up some
PTF to handle Internet addressing on the SNDDST command.

The AS/400 has an SMTP client and server, as well as a POP3 server. But
you will only need the SMTP capabilities for outbound mail. You will
need to configure TCP/IP, Remote Name server, SMTP and SNADS. Your
AS/400 will also have to have a connection to the Internet or a mail
server that can route to the Internet.

The Redbook "AS/400 Electronic Mail Capabilities" can be helpful in the
configuration.

For a commercial product you might want to look at NetMail from Net400.
They are a partner company of ours and have print distribution in their
e-mail product. There are other 3rd party products, too.

If you are more ambitious you can use the QtmmSendMail API to send
outbound mail. It supports more functionality than the SNDDST interface.

HTH,
Patrick

John Hall wrote:
> 
> I would like to send e-mail from an AS400 Application to a certain
> internet e-mail account.
> 
> For example a nightly batch job would create a one page report and then
> e-mail to various accounts.
> 
> What do I need to accomplish this.  It is a small project so there isn't
> a budget to go out and spend $2000 just to provide these reports.
> 
> We have an inhouse mail server (linux) and an internet connection.
> 
> Do we need to run SMTP on our 400 or is there a POP client we can use.
> 
> John L. Hall
> Home Sales Co.
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