RE: Catch 'n release MONITOR'd message

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Bartell, Aaron L. (TC) wrote:
>
> What are you talking about?  The Java portion?  I wrote it in Java because
> whenever we rely on MSF (Mail Server Framework) it blows up and we end up
> restarting it without retaining the existing queue entries (or whatever they
> are called), which means we lose all of the emails that are waiting to be
> sent out.  We have 25+ iSeries machines that we support and MSF became such
> a problem that we had to find a different way to send out email.

I'm not familiar with MSF.   I was suggesting that it write the mail via
the SMTP protocol to a SMTP server.   If you need to do mail using other
protocols, then my ideas probably won't work.   I guess I just assume
everyone is using internet standard mail.

I also don't use the AS/400 as my SMTP server.  It's just not what the
AS/400 is good at :)   But that's not really relevant, a program can be
made configurable so that it talks to any SMTP server, whether it's on the
LAN or Internet or local machine is just a matter of specifying a
different address.

> Also, I don't have to deal with all of the restrictions that other software
> out there has (limited attachments, limited recipients, etc).  I already
> knew Java, and the JavaMail API's do all the hard work for you.

Huh?  Why would you write software that has restrictions that you don't
want?  I'm suggesting writing it yourself, not using an existing package!

> Besides, RPG doesn't scale well for these types of things, IMO.  Like the
> RPG XML parser I just got done writing; I wouldn't recommend parsing XML in
> RPG, but if you don't have any other options, that parser is available and
> works good.

But, that parser isn't available. :)  I've tried to install it!

But, as far as writing statements like:

          Email_MsgFrom('klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');
          Email_AddRecipient('aaron@xxxxxxxxxx');
          Email_AddRecipient('rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx');
          Email_Subject('Fun with salt shakers');
          Email_BodyFile('/tmp/bigbody.txt');
          Email_Attach('/tmp/happyboy.gif': 'IMAGE/GIF');
          Email_Attach('/tmp/sillyreport.xls': 'APPLICATION/VND.MS-EXCEL');
          if (Email_Send('smtp.klements.com') < 0);
             SndEscape(Email_Error);
          endif;

I don't see why there'd be scalability issues there.  If you're so keen
to do your e-mail in Java, then why are you writing an RPG interface for
it?  It seems to me that your major problems is that you're mixing both
RPG and Java.   Do it purely in Java if you want Java.