Re: how does command prompting work?

Joel,

The documentation found in the www.easy400.net web site states :
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*Note 3- Fetching sender's name and e-mail from the system distribution
directory
*If the current user profile is enrolled in the system distribution
directory (you may use command WRKDIRE to check it out) and its directory
entry specifies a full name and an e-mail address (use F19 and check fields
titled "SMTP user ID" and "SMTP domain"), then the sender's name and e-mail
address are automatically fetched into command parameters FROMNAME and
FROMEMAIL when the command is prompted.
(Command WRKNAMSTP, alias table type = system, provides another way to
display / maintain e-mail addresses)
If the command is executed without prompting, to obtain the same you must
specify FROMNAME(*DIRENT) FROMEMAIL(*DIRENT). In this case, if the required
information cannot be retrieved from the system distribution directory
entry for the current user profile, an escape message is issued.
Example:
MMAIL/EMLMSG SUBJECT('Announcement of a new software') FROMNAME(*DIRENT)
FROMADDR(*DIRENT) TO('dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'/'Tom Dooley'/*TO)
TXTF(QGPL/MESSAGES) TXTMBR(MSG705) RECEIPT(*YES)
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HTH,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries