Re: Receive Email Attachment to IFS

Hi Brian

Your approach will depend on how timely and reliable you need the transfer
to be and also the volume of data and/or files being transferred.

I use a Powershell script to detach, unzip and transfer some files between
an email folder and a server every day and it works 95% of the time - but
it does not move a great many files and if it happens not to work on any
given day it's not a tragedy.

The other comments about email are good food for thought.


On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Brian <belstsrv@xxxxxxxxx> 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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