Re: Retrieve e-mails from Exchange server

[Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx>]

But I remember EDI using AS1 until it was found that with spam filtering 
and mailbox size limitations a significant enough number of transactions 
weren't getting through. Try tracking those missing files!

On 11/18/2014 4:20 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> At first I tended to agree with some that email seems a poor choice for
> this when the industry seems to lean more towards posting to secure
> websites, ftp sites, etc.
> Then again, email is kind of like EDI.  Neither side has to be "up".  One
> sends the transaction to their ISP.  That ISP passes it off to the
> recipients ISP.  The recipients email system retrieves the email.  If any
> system is down for an not indefinite interval then it will stack up until
> the transaction processes through.  Much like the background "fire and
> forget" of snads versus many TCP/IP alternatives.
>
> Granted, "up" time is pretty much demanded nowadays.  However there are
> still a lot of IBM i shops out there with a single machine running their
> FTP and web sites.  And while these machines are a tank you do still have
> downtime for PTF's, OS upgrades, etc.
>
>
> Rob Berendt