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Chapter 2- MAILTOOL Plus! Options

The MAILTOOL Plus! add on allows you to bypass the standard IBM SMTP server entireley when sending an email.

To use the MAILTOOL Plus! option, simply specify the following parameters on the MAILTOOL or SPL2EMAIL command:

SENDWITH(*MAILTOOL)

If you are using an email router, then you also should specify the following:

MAILRTR(xx.xx.xx.xx)
USERTR(*ONLY)

Replace xx.xx.xx.xx with your mail router. Specifying USERTR(*ONLY) tells MAILTOOL Plus! that you only want to use the mail router. Specifying *YES will tell MAILTOOL Plus! to try and deliver the email first directly to the end user, and if that fails to use the mail router. In most cases where a mail router is used, the *ONLY value should be used on the USERTR parameter.

If there are any errors detected when sending the email, log entries are made that are then displayed in the MAILTOOL Plus! Error Log (MTPLUSLOG) display. Using this display you can resend the email to all recipients, or only to those that did not receive the email.


MAILTOOL Plus! Error Log (MTPLUSLOG)

  8/30/04                   MAILTOOL Plus! Error Log                      
 10:51:54                                                               
 
 Type options, press Enter. 
  2=Details 4=Delete  5=Show Email   10=Resend to All  11=Resend to Error Only 
                                                                               
 Opt From                                        Rcpts  Sent       Date     Time
  __ me@mydomain.com                                 1     0 08/30/2004 10:51:20
  __ me@mydomain.com                                 2     1 08/30/2004 10:51:44
 








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The MTPLUSLOG command allows you to view emails that were not successfully sent. It also gives you the option to resend the emails to all of the original recipients, or to just those who did not receive the original email.

In this example we see that two emails were in error. The first was sent to 1 recipient, and zero recipients received the email. The second example shows that the email was sent to 2 recipients, and only 1 received the email.

The following options are available:

  • 2=Details - Display the recipient email details. On this screen you will be able to see which recipients received the email and which did not. And example of this screen is shown in the next section.
  • 4=Delete - Delete this entry from the log including the Mime file that was created for the email.
  • 5=Show Email - Display the Mime file that was created for this email. This file will contain all of the information about the email including the sender, recipients, subject and message.
  • 10=Resend to All - Resend the email to all of the recipients. This option will remove all log entries. If errors occur again the display will be repopulated.
  • 11=Resend to Error Only - Resend the email to only the recipients that did not receive the email.

MAILTOOL Plus! Error Log Details

   8/30/04               MAILTOOL Plus! Error Log Details                  
 10:57:56                                                                
 
 Type options, press Enter. 
  2=Edit  4=Delete 
                                                                                
 Opt Recipient                                                              Type
  __ bvstone@yahoo.com                                                      To:
  __ error2@hhhhhhhh.com                                                    To:
 











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The following screen will be displayed when option 2 is used from the entry screen. This display will list the recipients of the email. Recipients listed in red are those that the email was not sent to.

In this example we see that There were two recipients. The first received the email successfully, the second did not.

The following options are available:

  • 2=Edit - This option will allow you to change the recipient value. This option is useful when you may have typed the email address incorrectly.
  • 4=Delete - Delete this recipient from the log.

 

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