RE: Email Attachments

Look into directory entry (WRKDIRE) for SMTP user you are sending mail
to.
Make sure that "preferred address" is set to 3 - "SMTP address".
This will activate MIME-compliant conversion in AS/400 SMTP code.


    Best regards,

          Alexei Pytel



> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Murphy [SMTP:murphy_d@OSCAR.OSSC.STATE.OR.US]
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 4:57 PM
> To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Email Attachments
> 
> We are beginning to use our AS400 as a mail server and in general it
> seems to work fine except for sending attachments. We receive
> attachments correctly it appears but recipients sent attachments from
> us report receiving only garbage.  I sent myself a JPEG file from home
> and it looked just fine when  I retrieved it at work the next day.
> But when I sent the same file back to myself  the message was full of
> junk. It looked as if the binary information of the file had been
> deposited into the body of the message rather than "attached."  
> 
> We send a quite a few documents, so we really need this to work
> properly. Can someone point me to a setting to change or offer some
> suggestions how I might fix this problem? The POP section in the
> TCP/IP Reference is no help.
> 
>  David Murphy
> Information Services Division
> Oregon State Scholarship Commission
> David.a.murphy@state.or.us
>  (541) 687-7433
> 
> 
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