RE: Little help on email using SNDDST or QtmmSendMail -- MIDRANGE-L

Rick:

I started a reply to discuss MIME, but it gets messy fast for me. I can't think 
of any thing better than (1) read RFC 1521 a few times and (2) download 
something that does it for you.

In general, the whole thing started pretty much because you can't send anything 
over SMTP except plain text. Of course, everybody wanted to send image files 
and music files and everything _but_ plain text which caused no end of trouble 
for e-mail and e-mail administrators and causes much (most?) of the problems 
people have today.

MIME describes how to encode and decode files so that the SMTP servers never 
see the binary values that make up image and music files. It describes how to 
send multiple attachments of different kinds with a single e-mail item. It does 
so in ways that allow e-mail clients to recognize which text characters in the 
body of an e-mail are part of the 'message' and which are part of some encoded 
attachment.

For you, it might be easy because you might never be interested in sending 
anything but plain text attachments. In that case, the headers that mark the 
beginning and end of each section will be pretty much the same in every e-mail. 
You won't even need to do any encoding/decoding; it's already printable text.

Perhaps the easiest thing for you to do, if you've read the basic RFC, is 
simply send a couple e-mails with plain text attachments from any client to 
yourself and then save them to files when you receive them. Perhaps even send a 
couple SNDDST messages with long-text to see the formatting it creates. Compare 
them to each other in Notepad. The patterns should be evident.

Then use whatever you've downloaded back at the beginning of this, and expect 
to spend a lot of spare-time hours playing with writing your own. The Easy400 
stuff seems a good start to me.

Tom Liotta


midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   2. RE: Little help on email using SNDDST or QtmmSendMail
>      (rick.baird)
>
>Thanks for the MSF info.   I put in the autostart job, and we'll see what
>happens as far as sequence of starting, on the next system save.
>
>now, to my other question.   I would like to be able to send a simple
>e-mail, with a single attachment via RPG program.
>
>I assume that means using the QtmmSendMail API and MIME.
>
>I've scanned IBMs site, I've looked at the MIME specifications, I've tried
>to follow examples I've seen,  I've scanned the archives  - although one
>problem with that, i've found at least a third of the posts have that
>little "this is a multipart/MIME" message in them, so I get way more hits
>than I should.


-- 
Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
19426 68th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
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