RE: Sending e-mails from AS/400

This may sound silly, but the SMTP protocol is NOT hard to understand.
Depending on the level of sophistication you need the simplest thing to do
may be write an RPG socket program that sends to port 25 on the remote
system.

-Walden


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark A. Manske [mailto:mmanske@minter-weisman.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:55
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Sending e-mails from AS/400


Has it really been five years already (ouch)

Point well taken - one to keep in mind - cheap (thrifty) management, the old
way "works" and some people cannot afford nor need Domino.

As for JAVA based mail, if you can find it free or cheap,
and don't have to know java to use it, could be a very good thing.

I have not researched that avenue, but I just might have to.

Thanks for the info.



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of David Morris
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:27 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Sending e-mails from AS/400


Mark,

Most of the email support on the AS/400 is "old" and retains too much office
baggage. The SNDDST command along with the QTMM APIs, all use the AnyMail
Mail Server Framework APIs under the covers. That support was OK five years
ago, but it has not been enhanced in a long time and overly complicates the
process.

More modern alternatives include Java based mail support or Domino.  At this
point, I would steer way from the APIs if my intent is to find something
more flexible.

David Morris

>>> mmanske@minter-weisman.com 02/26/02 10:05AM >>>
Depends on the rest of your set-up;
to start with, this is an "old" way, API's are better and more flexible...

mark

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