Comments on: SMTP – SEND PDF USING SNDDST TO FAX SERVER

By: LauraN

LauraN — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:33:48 +0000

Hi,

You can find a nice and easy fax SMTP API on the Interfax website. This API basically sends faxes automatically as email messages.

In these pages, you’ll find some basic code snippets (in the usage examples) that send a fax as an attachment, and also other options that allow more advanced definition of message sending.

HTH,

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:47:13 +0000

No, that can't be right. If the fax service was one of the AS/400 fax products, you wouldn't need SNDDST. The fax product is on some remote system, so we're back to not using SNDDST for the transfer of the .PDF to the remote system. I have to suggest that you look into downloading/installing something more appropriate such as iSeries MIME & Mail and avoid SNDDST for any non-text files. You could also base a solution around your own programming over the QtmmSendMail API which is the intended facility for SMTP e-mail, but you would possibly still want to use some of the MMAIL functions rather than write them yourself. Preparing attachments isn't an easy task without practice. (Simply configuring SNDDST to interface with SMTP can be hard enough without some experience.) Tom

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:11:53 +0000

The “syntax” appears to be for an embedded e-mail address. I’d guess that you have a fax product installed on your AS/400 and you intend that the product use your SNA e-mail facility to route the fax to your SMTP server.

Have you verified that the Mail Server Framework is configured to route through SMTP? Can you use SNDDST to send basic notes to outside e-mail addresses?

I keep a few external addresses (e.g., at MAIL.COM, at AOL or even a HotMail address) available for testing. I send to a couple different ones to verify that my system can send successfully.

Simple SNDDST e-mails from a command line should first work for any external e-mail addresses before faxes will work. Has that been verified? What external e-mail servers were tested?

Tom

By: trekgirl850

trekgirl850 — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:35:33 +0000

Here is the syntax:

TOINTNET=/fax=999999999999/name@xxxxxxxx.com>

and this is the error message i get:
Message ID . . . . . . : CPI9045 Severity . . . . . . . : 00
Message type . . . . . : Information
Message . . . . : Distribution to user identifier *UNKNOWN *ANYMAIL failed.

Cause . . . . . : The distribution was sent by user identifier(ID) SIMARDC

TARKDEV to user ID *UNKNOWN *ANYMAIL at 09/24/10 16:04:36. The distribution

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:49:58 +0000

…could you provide me the e-mail address syntax ?

The basic e-mail address syntax is the user ID followed by the commercial-at symbol followed by the e-mail server domain name. But that’s almost certainly not what you want to know.

Unfortunately, I have no idea what you want to know.

And in any case, you almost certainly won’t be able to use SNDDST for this in any reliable way. You probably need a competent e-mail client unless you can guarantee that your PDF streamfiles won’t contain anything but 7-bit ASCII characters.

Tom