Re: snddst -- MIDRANGE-L

I'll add this. I've dealt with thousands using email on the IBM i over the
years. Some just think "it works, so it must be set up right" when in fact
they don't have the relaying set up properly at all. While it may work
internally, and for some external, it won't work for all because a lot of
systems are using reverse DNS lookups now, so if they can't map your IP to
a domain they will reject the email and you'll never know.

That's why we use Mail Servers/Relays as a single point of sending emails.
Network folks set those up to avoid these issues, as well as auto spam
marking, etc.

<vendor>
With MAILTOOL you can set up configurations, very easily, as the system,
user and command level. So there's a lot of fallback.

If you have a general use address you set that up as the default. If you
have another user who needs to use their own credentials and account, you
can set that up by user. And of course, you can always override most
things on the command itself.

You can even set up configurations with failovers if one doesn't work (ie,
if for some reason you're sending through O365 and it goes down, which does
happen, it can be set to automatically use something like a GMail or other
account.

And we also have options, as mentioned, that use OAuth 2.0 with GMail and
Office 365. Set up the user once using green screen and a browser, and
after that it will automatically refresh tokens for you. In the case of
O365 you may need to re-register as their refresh tokens also expire if not
used after a month or so. And if you change the password on your account
you'd have to re-register anyway.

Over 20 years in the making... it does a lot.. and for not much money...
even much less than your daily coffee. :)
</vendor>

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 3:56 PM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 3:07 PM Danner, Duane <ddanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We switched our SMTP from a on premise Exchange server to a O365 smtp

relay that requires authentication (a "from" email address)

When trying to send emails from i-series, we need to change the "from

SMTP email address" so they are all the same for different profiles, in
WRKDIRE

I don't know how to set up email, so someone can tell me if this isn't
going to work for your situation, but...

For a long time now (since 6.1), the IBM-included way to send email is
the SNDSMTPEMM command. Very simple to use and you can't beat the
price. You should give that a try.

We have Office 365 as well, and that command works on our system for
internal emails. We can't send external emails that way, but I don't
know if it's because our administrator chose to block that capability,
or there's a technical reason why it won't work.

So maybe that would suffice for your needs. If not, and you can spend
a relatively small amount on a subscription basis, then Brad Stone's
MAILTOOL is definitely worth a look.

(For the record, our shop actually doesn't use SNDSMTPEMM or MAILTOOL,
but I've tried them both.)

John Y.
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