Re: QtmmSendMail Issues

Mike,

I went through my old stuff and dug up the programs & Java classes we had
spoke of and worked on about a year ago.  I also downloaded the source from
Aaron Bartell.  I think I can put all of these together and make a low
impact system to integrate  JavaMail pretty painlessly.

I was hoping that IBM would clean up the SMTP implementation -- but that
does not appear to be happening.  The problems have been there for as long
as I remember....  My boss and I had a conversation about this issue -- he
said "Maybe they will fix it in V5R3".. my response was "We said that about
V5R1 and V5R2, do you really think they will clean it up?"....

Thanks!

Mike

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Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: QtmmSendMail Issues


>
> Mike,
>
> I was the one who mentioned the 3rd party mail product.  It's called ESEND
> and it's made by ASC.  You can get more information at
> http://www.asc-iseries.com/, but you'll need to contact them, because they
> don't advertise ESEND (they usually bundle it with SEQUEL).
>
> I'm pretty sure ESEND uses the QtmmSendMail API, and one of the tools they
> give you is an easy way to start SMTP journalling (the CHGSMTPA command)
> and an easy way to display and print the journal entries.  So you'll
> probably want to start journalling and check the journals.
>
> I've worked with the JavaMail API, and we just weren't happy with the
> initial performance hit, so we never really enhanced our programs (like
> adding error handling if the SMTP server is not available).  Then we wound
> up buying SEQUEL and ESEND, and that pretty much ended the discussion.  If
> you're OK with the initial performance hit, I'd recommend looking at
> Aaron's stuff.  It's much more advanced than what anyone else has done.
>
> Mike E.
>
>
>
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> Hi all.  We are using the API QtmmSendMail to send emails on two of our
> iSeries machines.  They are both on V5R2 and are up to date on PTF's.  We
> are having some problems (as we have been having since we started sending
> emails from the iSeries -- back on V4R4).  Emails get lost.  Emails do not
> get sent.  We check for errors when using the API and never get an error
in
> return.
>
> We would like to use another SMTP server on the iSeries and continue to
use
> the QtmmSendMail API.  Does anyone know if this is possible?  I am not
sure
> if the API uses the QMSF processing or directly interacts with the SMTP
> server.  What I was thinking is to start a James server (only using the
> SMTP
> server) and see if I could have the QtmmSendMail API interact with that
> server.
>
> Can we set the SMTP server that the API would use?  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
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