Re: receiving email

[John Ross <jross-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know a little about email on the AS/400 but this may be all wrong.

Instead of writing a program (no RCV API that I know of) to go to your ISP 
could you not have your ISP backup your AS/400 mail server. Meaning they 
hold the email until you come and get it. Then the email would be put into 
an IFS like /QTCPTMM/MAIL/JROSS  You could use a program to read through 
this and display a message to the users.

Yes it could be setup to be a list server. You would need to setup a file 
to hold the list and then read through it and send the email to each user 
(I do not think you would want to BCC them on one email, but that is an 
option).

If you are looking for a package see 
http://www.net400.com/netmail.htm  they have a download of how to setup 
email on the as/400 http://www.net400.com/download.htm

If you want to ask more questions offline email me at  JRoss@netshare400.com

At 10:38 AM 6/19/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Another version of this question: Could an ISeries function as a message 
>board server and serve a list such as this one ?
>
>>How would I setup the iseries to receive email ( without domino ), is 
>>there a rcv equivalent of the send email api?
>>
>>I want to do the following:
>>
>>   Batch job runs as the email receiver.
>>
>>   Central rcv pgm polls the ISP every 5 minutes for new messages.
>>
>>   For each msg received, a cl pgm is called with an "EmailMsgId" parameter.
>>
>>   The cl pgm runs a "RtvEmailMsg  &EmailMsgId" command.
>>
>>   The email msg attributes are returned into pgm variables ( from, to, 
>> subj, body ).
>>
>>   Maybe even an IFS path name of the attached file?
>>
>>   "To address" is mapped to an iseries usrprf name.
>>
>>   CL pgm distributes, files the msg according to its programmed 
>> instructions.
>>
>>
>>Thank you,
>>
>>Steve Richter
>>

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