RE: Has anyone parsed a received e-mail into a physical file?

Booth:

We do this for a customer.  Their customers send a valid PO file to them 
attached to email.

We periodically check for files in their inbox (QTCPTMM/MAIL/Userid/inbox I 
think) and then use CPYFRMSTMF, along with an RPG
program to process them.

We ignore everything in the email until we see the file start.  For each 
customer, the file's 1st four positions are their ID, so,
we look for any record containing "NORD" for instance.

The code is ALL CLP and RPG, no API's, but I'd be happy to post the working 
example if you'd like.

_________________
Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Jackson, NJ 08527

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> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 1:04 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Has anyone parsed a received e-mail into a physical file?
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> David, my client has contracted to a web-design firm to prepare and host
> their website.  The website includes a form to be filled out if a person is
> interested.  The web-design firm was supposed to put the data into a file
> and ftp it to us, but so far all that has appeared is lots and lots of
> e-mails (one per inquiry) with the information inside it.  The e-mail is
> machine generated by them, from the forms.
>
> I'm trying to resolve the problem in some other way, as the web-design firm
> seems pretty confused about making a data file and FTPing it.
>
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> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Date: Saturday, December 08, 2001 10:53:18 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Has anyone parsed a received e-mail into a physical file?
>
> At 04:16 PM 12/7/2001, you wrote:
> >As sometimes happens, I wasn't clear. the e-mails each have 1 inquiry, or 1
> >data record. As these w-mails arrive the data has to be stripped out of the
> >body of the e-mail.
>
> Booth:
>
> Could you post a sample? That would probably aid in generating ideas.
>
> A few quick questions:
> Are these email inquiries human or machine generated?
> If human generated, are they free form or form based?
> If machine generated, are they encoded anyway (html, xml, etc)?
>
> david
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