RE: Email Attachments

["Murphy, David" <murphy_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the response. It's not what I wanted to hear, I'm afraid. Too bad, 
though, because unless we can make the 400 send attachments correctly, we'll 
probably be forced to move to something like Exchange Server on NT. I guess 
it's just one more unfortunate case of the reality not living up to the promise.

-----Original Message-----
From:   owner-midrange-l@midrange.com  On Behalf Of Patrick Townsend
Sent:   Friday, July 10, 1998 5:12 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: Email Attachments

David,

The "TCP/IP Reference" and "AS/400 Electronic Mail Capabilities" books
talk a lot about MIME support. I really think these sections were
written by the marketing department. MIME support is almost non-existent
on V3Rx machines, and minimal on V4Rx machines. The POP3 server will
decode MIME attachments on inbound mail for you, but outbound support
for MIME is atrocious. The AS/400 may be the only modern computing
system system without a decent SendMail and MIME encoding capability. If
you really want to get more into sending MIME attacments on outbound
mail you need to explore the QtmmSendMail API. I think Paul Nicolay has
posted some sample code here previously....

HTH,
Patrick

David A. Murphy wrote:
> 
> This might work for local users, who are the only entries in the system 
>directory,  but it's not much good for mail recipients outside the agency.  We 
>use either Outlook or Exchange as a client and we use the local address books 
>those programs generate. Those programs send MIME attachments by default and 
>have been working fine with our ISP accounts. It's only when going through the 
>AS400 we have problems, so there must be something there I can change or 
>configure since the TCP/IP  reference says that the 400 will send MIME 
>attachments (and it wouldn't lie to me, would it).
> 
> David Murphy
> Information Services Division
> Oregon State Scholarship Commission
> Dmurphy@teleport.com
> (541) 687-7433
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   owner-midrange-l@midrange.com  On Behalf Of Pytel, Alexei
> Sent:   Friday, July 10, 1998 3:56 AM
> To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:        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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