Re: Sending Email From RPG

At my previous job we had MAILTOOL from bvstools.com which I used to send
email from within RPG programs. While the RPG interface I had was far from
perfect, it did work. Before I go to my new employer with suggesting
purchasing that same product I want to see what other options there are.

Free E-mail Tools:

a) There's a CL command called SNDDST that comes with i5/OS that works
   okay for simple e-mails.  It has some sharp limits (5000 chars for
   a message -- only one attachment -- attachment must be in /QDLS) but
   it's free.

b) There's the Mime & Mail open source utility from
    http://www.easy400.net

c) There's SNDM from Uzaemon (Freeware)
    http://homepage1.nifty.com/uzaemon/

d) There's Dave Leland's SNDEMAIL. There are significant flaws in the
    way it does character translation, and it assumes that all attachments
    are plain text (so if they're not, they'll either be corrupted, or
    will cause "unpredictable results" to occur with SMTP servers) I
    strongly recommend against this tool.
    http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/article.cfm?id=2806

e) I've written an article that demonstrates writing an e-mail message
    directly from RPG (with IFS & QtmmSendMail APIs):
    http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/article.cfm?id=52911

   That article is inteded to be a "part 1" article, future articles will
   talk more about how to send without QtmmSendMail.  But that article
   stands on it's own, too.

f) There's also the JavaMail API, but I don't have any pointers to info
   about it.