RE: Sending messages to Pager

>There are times when the email is not an accepted method.  That is for a 
>few situations like disk exceeding threshold.  At that time, the system 
>automatically shuts down SMTP to slow the fill of disk space.

Just a minor note... The SMTP server isn't _required_ to be active on the 
AS/400 (or iSeries or i5) in order to send an SMTP e-mail. TCP/IP must be 
active (and a route must be available, etc.), but the server can be down.

A relatively simple sockets program can connect to an SMTP server on another 
system, perhaps one that is already configured to route e-mail from the AS/400, 
and insert e-mail for sending. The sockets send/receive sequences are 
documented in the SMTP RFCs.

This is pretty much how most PC e-mail clients send e-mail without actually 
running their own servers.

Tom Liotta



midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   1. Re: Sending messages to Pager (rob@xxxxxxxxx)
>
>Most of them accept email.  If so, then you could use SNDDST to test.  You 
>might have to go into WRKDIRE and use F19 to set up a valid email account.
>
>There are times when the email is not an accepted method.  That is for a 
>few situations like disk exceeding threshold.  At that time, the system 
>automatically shuts down SMTP to slow the fill of disk space.  You might 
>want to then look at paging software.  Byteware is very popular, along 
>with ROBOT, LXI and a host of others.  I had a very bad experience with 
>LXI and Arch if I had it to do all over again I'd go with Byteware. 
>There's a lot more to these packages other then the actual send.  Like 
>what message queues to monitor, which messages to ignore, other situations 
>to page for, etc.
>
>
>"Dwayne Allison"
>Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>02/14/2005 04:23 PM
>
>Subject
>Sending messages to Pager
>
>How do you send a message to a pager from the AS/400?

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