Re: Using iseries to email

It looks like you have all the "big picture" stuff figured out. The challenge is linking it all together. You may want to post to Midrange on the email stuff. It sounds like your i is already set up to handle SMTP traffic (I don't think that HelpSystems is using a home grown SMTP server) so the configuration is probably done. Your challenge is to get the form stored and sent from the i.

I don't know much about the Adobe product but I am assuming that the email option is built into the Adobe form? If so, it will be using something like the mailto: keyword in HTML. It naturally invokes the local email client. There is nothing you can control. In your case, it sounds like you will need to:

1. Store the form in the IFS.
2. Write a routine to send the form by email.

I am not sure how, as you were told, "my Network/PC guys said that if the 400 can send email then to have the form use the 400 instead of the PC". Its the "have the form use the 400 instead of the PC" that is the issue. The form is probably just using PC resources to locate an email client and use it to send it. Without the email client, you will need to do the "client" heavy lifting yourself. I doubt there is a way in the form to tell it: "Hey, don't use the usual local PC client but instead package this up and forward it using SMTP."

In other words, invoking a local client to send email is "cake". Finding another method, sending it via SMTP using the system i, will be a bit of challenge. The Midrange and RPG lists might be better places to post unless you are planning on using Java to send it. If so, *that* I can help you with directly. :-)

Pete Helgren


Margaret Hopkins wrote:

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have interactive forms created with Adobe LiveCycle Designer. On my AS400 (oops.. i-series) I have an webpage where users select, for example a Request Form - The form opens in Acrobat where they fill in the form - click an email button and it will email a copy of the form to me in pdf format.
The problem ---> It opens their email application on their PC and uses their PC to send the form.
This works great for SOME of my users HOWEVER...... some use Outlook Web as their email application and my Network/PC guys said that if the 400 can send email then to have the form use the 400 instead of the PC - Having the 400 act as the asp ??? Told me to find out what the iseries equivalent to Microsofts asp is ? This is where I go uh??????? I have HelpSystems - SEQUEL's ESEND product and have Sequel jobs that run and email views directly from the 400 but that's all within sequel, so I know my system CAN send email I just do not know how to get this form to use it.



Margaret Hopkins
Lapeer County Intermediate School District
1996 West Oregon
Lapeer, Michigan 48446 phone: 810.245.3973 fax: 810.664.1011
website: www.lcisd.k12.mi.us