Re: [EXTERNAL] Sending HTML email from IBM

[K Crawford <kscx3ksc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greg, thanks for the information.
Using SNDSMTPEMM I have a POC program using a HTML template just like you
are referring to.  I am using 3 C API's (_C_IFS_fopen, _C_IFS_fgets,
_C_IFS_fclose) to read the HTML on the IFS.  load this into the body parm
of SNDSMTPEMM command, substituting the "variables" as needed.
Now just waiting for management to say do it.
Kerwin

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 12:42 PM Greg Wilburn <
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We have been sending HTML email messages for a long, long time.
> We use MAILTOOL (thanks Bradley) because we send email "on behalf" of many
> different addresses (i.e. from customerservice@<yourcompany.com>.
>
> I use CGIDEV2 and HTML "Templates" saved on the IFS.  The templates
> contain "constant data" and "variables" formatted in HTML, and arranged in
> "sections".  In RPG, I build the HTML document(body) by populating the
> "variables" in the templates, writing the "sections", and saving the
> resulting HTML file.  I then use the HTML document as the email body, and
> sometimes have have PDF or Excel attachments to go along with it.
>
> We use this for all kinds of different notifications for our customers,
> invoices (with PDF attached), etc.
>
> It works very well.  And you can edit the "templates" in Notepad++ or
> similar.
>
> Feel free to reach out directly if you want.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Sending HTML email from IBM
>
> I am looking for a good way to modernize our emails coming from the IBMi.
> In the planning now.
> Currently they are just simple text emails.  We would like to take
> advantage of HTML and embedding images etc.  I have a POC of RPGMail that
> works but know this is outdated and dependent on the version of Java.
> One thought I had is to create an email table that has the email
> information, Subject, body, address, status, sentDate, etc.  and let some
> product read this table to send it.  We do something like this for our text
> messages.
>
> I am looking for recommendations on ways/products to do this.  I am sure
> that management will say don't spend any money.
> TIA.
>
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