E-Mail Tool (MAILTOOL)

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 To Address . . . . . . . . . . .   ______________________________________

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 To Name  . . . . . . . . . . . .   ______________________________________

 From Address . . . . . . . . . .   ______________________________________

 From Name  . . . . . . . . . . .   ______________________________________

 CC: Address  . . . . . . . . . .   ______________________________________

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 Name of CC recipient . . . . . .   *NONE_________________________________

 BCC: Address . . . . . . . . . .   ______________________________________

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 Name of BCC recipient  . . . . .   *NONE_________________________________

 Subject  . . . . . . . . . . . .   ______________________________________

 Message Text . . . . . . . . . .   *NONE_________________________________

 Attachment . . . . . . . . . . .   *NONE_________________________________

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 Attachment Name  . . . . . . . .   *ATT__________________________________

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 MDN Address  . . . . . . . . . .   *NONE_________________________________

 MDN Name . . . . . . . . . . . .   ______________________________________
 Send With Server Type  . . . . .   *IBMSMTP      *MAILTOOL, *IBMSMTP
 Mail Router  . . . . . . . . . .   *NONE_________________________________
 Use Mail Router  . . . . . . . .   *NO___        *NO, *YES, *ONLY
 Bind to IP Address . . . . . . .   *NONE
 Coded Character Set Identifier     819           Number

 Body content type  . . . . . . .   'text/plain'__________________________

 Mime header code page  . . . . .   819__         1-65535

 Temporary Directory  . . . . . .   '/tmp'________________________________
 Importance . . . . . . . . . . .   *NORMAL___    *NORMAL, *HIGH, *LOW...
 Recipient Separator  . . . . . .   ','           Character value
 Debug  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   *NO_          *YES, *NO
 Debug File Name  . . . . . . . .   'mailtooldebug.txt'___________________
 SMTP Debug File Name . . . . . .   'mailtoolsmtp.txt'____________________


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The eMail Tool (MAILTOOL) command allows you to send emails from your AS/400 with a variety of options.

• To Address - Enter the email address that you wish to send an email to. Up to 10 email addresses may be entered here.
• To Name - Enter the name of the person or group you wish to send an email to.
• From Address - Enter the email address of the person sending the email. With v3.11 and higher, the special value of *USER may be used. This will use the SMTP name defined on the directory entry for the user running the command for the from address.
• From Name - Enter the name of the person that is sending the email.
• CC: Address - Enter the email address that should be carbon copied (CCed) on this email. Up to 10 email addresses may be entered here.
• Name of CC Recipient - Enter the name of the person or group being carbon copied on this email.
• BCC: Address - Enter the email address that should be blind carbon copied (BCCed) on this email. Up to 10 email addresses may be entered here.
• Name of BCC Recipient - Enter the name of the person or groiup being blind carbon copied on this email.
• Subject - Enter the text that will be used as the subject line of the email.
• Message Text - Enter the text that will be included as the message body of the email. The value \n used in the message text will instruct MAILTOOL to insert a new line. The special value of *ATT used for the message text will instruct MAILTOOL to include the attachment(s) specified as the body of the email. The characters \n will force a new line in this text.
• Attachment - Enter the qualified path name of the attachment file that should be attached to this email. Up to 50 attachments may be specified.
• Attachment Name - Enter the name of the attachment file(s). This will change the name of the attachment as it appears in the email. If this is left as the default *ATT, the actual attachment file name will be used.
• MDN Address - Enter an email address that should receive a delivery confirmation notice should the recipient of the email support this option.
• MDN Name - Enter a name to be used for the MDN address.
• Send With Server Type - Enter the server that you would like to use to send the email. The valid values are *IBMSMTP, which will use the standard IBM SMTP server to send the mail, or *MAILTOOL, which will use MAILTOOL's new internal APIs to send the email. The *MAILTOOL option is known as MAILTOOL Plus! and requires separate registration from MAILTOOL to function.
• Mail Router - For use with the SENDWITH(*MAILTOOL) option. If you require the use of a mail router, enter the name or IP address of the mail router in this parameter.
• Use Mail Router - For use with the SENDWITH(*MAILTOOL) option. Use *NO if you know that you do not require the use of a mail router and your AS/400 can communicate with the Internet. Use *YES if you wish to use a mail router as a backup for sending mail. If all other servers fail to send the mail, the value specified in the MAILRTR parameter will by used. Use the value *ONLY if you know you need to only use the mail router to send emails from your AS/400.
• Bind to IP Address - Use this to bind the communications from your iSeries to a specific IP address when using the SENDWITH(*MAILTOOL) option.
• Coded Character Set Identifier - Specify the CCSID to use for EBCDIC to ASCII translations when using the SENDWITH(*MAILTOOL) option.
• Body Content Type - Enter the content type of the body of the message. The default is "text/plain" which indicates that the body of the message is plain text. If the body of the message is HTML, the value "text/html" should be used.
• Mime Header Code Page - Enter the code page to use for the creation of the MIME header file.
• Temporary Directory - Enter the IFS path of the temporary directory that will be used to create the MIME header files and debug files.
• Importance - Enter a value to specify the importance of this email. On certain email clients this will mark the message with an importance icon representing the value. The value values are *NORMAL, *HIGH and *LOW
• Recipent Separator - Enter a value to be used to seperate recipient addresses on the To:, CC:, and BCC: parameters. This defaults to a comma.
• Debug - Enter *YES to create a debug file that can be used to track down possible problems with the email command. If *YES is specified, a file named /tmp/mailtooldebug.txt will be created in the IFS.
• Debug File Name - Enter the name of the file that will be created for debugging building of the MIME file.
• SMTP Debug File Name - Enter the name of the file that will be created for debugging the SMTP communications if the SENDWITH parameter is *MAILTOOL.

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