RE: Sending e-mails from AS/400

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

David:

On Tue, 26 February 2002, "David Morris" wrote:

> 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.

I've wondered about this since first reading and wanted to ask a question. I 
recognize that the SNA/DS basis of SNDDST is becoming irrelevant, but I'm not 
clear on how much of that's tied to the Mail Server Framework (MSF) itself.

I've tended to think that the MSF is excellent for someone who wants to create 
an actual AS/400 or iSeries based e-mail server _product_, but it's overkill 
for the more common simple tasks most of us are interested in. I'm not sure any 
other system provides anything remotely like MSF. (Of course, nowadays, no 
one's likely to be creating new e-mail server products just for the iSeries 
market.)

So, were you specifically referring to the MSF itself? or more to the 
difficulty in using it for the common tasks we often face?

Tom Liotta



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