This free utility (library MMAIL) allows to create and mail MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) files.
It is authored by Giovanni B. Perotti, Italy.

The contents of these pages are related to the release dated November 5, 2008.

A PDF containing all these WEB pages is available at http://www.easy400.net/mmail/manual/MMAIL_manual.pdf .

You've Got Mail!, an introductory article by Susan Gantner and Jon Paris, on the eServer Magazine, iSeries Edition, October 2004.

1. Prerequisites, contents, distribution, updates 2. Objectives 3. About MIME files 4. About QtmmSendMail API 5. MIME & Mail 5250 Utility 6. MIME & Mail Windows Utility 7. MIME & Mail miscellaneous utilities 8. SendMail service program 9. Commands 11. Duplicating an MMAIL installation to other systems 11. Development libraries 12. Cloning library MMAIL 13. Troubleshooting 14. FAQ 15. WEBMail

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  1. Prerequisites, contents, distribution, updates
Prerequisites

1. Minimum requirement is OS/400 V5R1. However, AMailer (the WebMailer included in MMAIL) requires at least V5R2 to be compiled.
   
2. RPG-ILE compiler (just for the installation)
3. Library QHTTPSVR (product 5722DG1)
4. Library QSYSLOCALE (product 5722SS1 option 21) from V5R4 on (see page http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/nls/rbagswhatsnew.htm )
5. Library QFNTCPL (AFP Compatibility Fonts, product 5722SS1, option 8, feature 5050) required for conversion of spool files to PDF's.
6. System value QCCSID must NOT be 65535.
7. Though not strictly necessary, for best conversion of spool files to PDF's we recommend to install "IBM Infoprint Server for iSeries, 5722-IP1" (library QIPS). For information about the MMAIL & Infoprint Server interface check out this page.
8. System value QRETSVRSEC.
   Access to the webmail application AMailer is through validation lists. If you plan to use this webmail application, then you must set system value QRETSVRSEC to 1.

1. MMAIL is the base library.
   Two more libraries (HPT and TIFFLIB) are available. These libraries support the conversion of a spool file to a pdf.
   While library HPT is installed if the OS/400 release is at least V4R5, library TIFFLIB is installed only if the OS/400 release is at least V5R1.
2. Service program mmail/sendmail is the base for all services provided. The functions of this service program for your own developments, are used in many utilities available in the package, and are documented in a separate page
3. A general 5250 utility can be run via command mmail/mimemenu. It allows to:
   1. maintain an address book
   2. maintain groups (distribution lists)
   3. create a MIME message (some times also called "MIME file")
   4. send a MIME message
   5. maintain a catalog of existing MIME messages
   The functions of this utility are documented on separate pages. They provide very good examples of interfacing the base service program.
4. A similar, very friendly utility is also available for Windows. This Client/Server utility requires Client Access Express and operates via service program mmail/wsendmail. It is documented on a separate page.
5. A number of other commands are available through menu go mmail/mail. See this page for details. These commands can be easily used in your application programs. They allow to:
   1. e-mail a simple message
   2. e-mail a source member
   3. e-mail a spool file
   4. e-mail a save file
   5. another utility allows to capture given spool files from one (or more than one) output queues and to e-mail them to different distribution lists (groups).

• The current MMAIL version available is dated November 5, 2008
• To know the release date of the MMAIL version currently installed on your system, enter command MMAIL/RELEASED .

• Create MIME files embedding texts and images, and appending various type of attachments (source members, spool files, images, audios, videos, and any other type of binary objects, for instance OS/400 save files)
• Send MIME files to addresses selected from an Address Book, and/or to selected Groups (distribution lists)

• write your own ILE-RPG programs to handle outgoing mail messages
• write your own ILE-RPG programs to send out customized messages

• A number of top headers describing sender, date, MIME version, distribution, subject, importance, priority, and sensitivity of the document:

  Sender: as400man@chris.com Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:08:25 +0100 From: Mike Shumaker <as400man@chris.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergei Bertolds <sergiob@argo.com> Subject: Some examples Importance: medium Priority: normal Sensitivity: normal

• A Content-type header describing the document as MULTIPART/MIXED. This means that the document may contain more than one piece (for instance some text and an attachment) and that the single pieces may have different types.
  The same header contains another keyword, BOUNDARY; it defines the boundary line that will be used to separate the single pieces.

  Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="--PART.BOUNDARY.1"

• The body of the message, usually some text, between boundaries and preceeded by appropriate Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers:

  ----PART.BOUNDARY.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Hello Sergei please find attached the example we were discussing today. Kind regards,                  Mike

• One or more attachments, as follow:

  ----PART.BOUNDARY.1 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="example.exe" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="example.exe" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Description: example.exe (copy of the binary object translated to Base64 format)

1. On the system where MMAIL was originally installed:
   1. save library MMAIL
2. On the target system:
   1. logon with a user profile having USRCLS(*SECOFR)
   2. restore library MMAIL
   3. run command "addlible mmail"
   4. run command "call mmail/install"

If you plan to develop programs using subprocedures of MMAIL service programs, you are recomended to:

1. Create your own development library, do not use library MMAIL.
2. You have two ways to populate your development library with the objects you need to develop MMAIL-based programs:
   • Use command MMAIL/SETMAILLIB to populate your library with duplicates of MMAIL service programs, binding directories and QRPGLESRC /COPY members
   • Use comand MMAIL/CRTMMLIB (see the next topic, Cloning the MMAIL library) to clone your library with the same contents of library MMAIL
3. When you create and run your programs, make sure that they refer to the service programs in your library, not to the service programs in library MMAIL. You do that by removing MMAIL from the library list, and adding your library instead.

• customize a clone for the needs of a given application, while making it non-sensitive to future MMAIL updates
• ability to install new versions of library MMAIL and to create new clones from there

• either library MMAIL
• or the name of a cloned library

           Create another MMAIL library (CRTMMLIB)

Type choices, press Enter.

New MMAIL library  . . . . . . .  NEWLIB  __________    Name
Recompile programs . . . . . . .  COMPILE *NO_          *NO, *YES

• use parameter NEWLIB to specify the name of the cloned library. This library must not exist.
• enter *YES for parameter COMPILE if you want the programs in the cloned library to be re-created. By doing this, you will be able to run STRDBG on them.

• Domain control characters ("@") not recognized as such by MSF.
  This issue is generally related to system value QCCSID 65535. Such a value inhibits page code conversion, and a result would transmit to MSF the wrong character istead of @. The problem is usually solved when one at last decides to replace the system value QCCSID with the appropriate value for the national language in use.
  Check out the following IBM iSeries Infocenter pages:
  • Recommendations and guidelines for using CCSIDs
  • Language identifiers and associated default CCSIDs
  • Default system values for national language versions
  See also our FAQ How can I run MMAIL on a system with system value QCCSID= 65535?
• Incorrect SMTP configuration.
  See our FAQ How shoud I configure the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server?
• Relayed mail rejection from the mail server.
  See our FAQ How to have outgoing mail from an iSeries be served by a mail server on another system

Last, to solve particular e-mail problems, you may use the MMAIL CGI program DSPQZMFDTA to display the current entries of the QZMF journal.

  13. FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Some of the most frequent questions asked by MIME & Mail downloaders.

  15. WEBMail
Starting July 2007, MMail includes a free open source WEBMail utility, named AMailer.
It is an iSeries WEB Mailer which (like many commercial mailers for PC) allows to receive and send e-mail messages.
AMailer supports multiple users and is fully integrated with MMail.
An AMailer tutorial is available.