Re: Receive Email Attachment to IFS

Just an idea, but processing emails (especially attachments) is never any
fun (I've done a few projects that do just that). It's also a huge weak
link in the chain of your application since a lot can go wrong.

I would suggest setting up a process such as a web service instead. Or
even an FTP server where you could process the files that way. Setting up
an exit point for your FTP server to alert you when a file is there is
fairly easy, and there are products out there that can also do the job for
you (for example, our FTPTOOL software).

But, if that's not possible and email is the only solution available, the
products Vern mentioned may do the trick.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Brian

If you are interested in a commercial solution, RJS Software has the
POP/400 product that can receive email from a POP3 mailbox - your exchange
server probably has those available. It's quite reasonably priced - I used
to work for them, no current affiliation. We bought the product here where
I now work.

I think that www.easy400.net has the MMAIL product - it might have a POP3
client feature - and that may not be completely free anymore, just some
minimal annual contribution, as I recall.

If you go the POP/400 route, be sure to work with their support - the exit
program you want to use is not so clearly documented as I might like, but I
had worked there, so I knew what to do.

But maybe they've added to that documentation now - I hope so, it is an
easy thing to use.

HTH
Vern


On 12/1/2014 2:24 PM, Brian wrote:

First off, I want to acknowledge the list for being so helpful to me. I
appreciate the assistance provided on my first couple of inquiries!

I am working on the date item you all helped me with already and then it
occurred to me that I have another situation that I need to solve somehow
and I would prefer to keep my solution centered around the iSeries, if at
all possible. So, I am posting here to see what you all think.

Here is my situation:

I have someone that is sending me a CSV that is attached to an email.
Our email server is MS Exchange.

At this time I assume that email will arrive in an Exchange mailbox and I
need to retrieve it from there.

I am looking for a way to retrieve the email, save the attached CSV to
the IFS and process it from there. All this would be done from the iSeries
somehow versus using VB/Outlook or something like that.

That's my ideal situation at least but I am open to other options or
ideas as well. We do not host any sort of email on the iSeries and I do
not see that changing. That being said, perhaps some sort of limited
mailboxing on the iSeries would work where Exchange could forward the email
to the iSeries?

Just thinking out loud there.

Any ideas on how to best pull this off are appreciated.

Thanks everyone,
Brian

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