RE: Little help on email using SNDDST or QtmmSendMail

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Sorry, I haven't been following this thread, so forgive me if this has
already been discussed.

> 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.

I see that Tom recommends RFC1521... that's an obsolete document.
Instead you should read RFCs 2045,2046,2047,2048 and 2049.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2046.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2048.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2049.html

> 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.

Yeah, that's usually case for people writing software that just needs to
send e-mail.  When you have to parse incoming e-mail, it's a whole
different level of complexity!

What bugs me about QtmmSendMail() is that it's the EASY part.  Writing a
program that sends a mail message to an SMTP server is quite simple.  The
hard part is formatting and/or parsing the MIME message, which IBM doesn't
help you with :)  Go figure!

Neither one is terribly difficult, though.  If you get stuck, let me know.
I've written a few different e-mail systems, so I can probably answer any
questions.