Hello all,
What is the simpliest process to send e-mail to internal and external users
from within an UniVerse application. Is there any documentation that
details the process of calling the Unix command to send out an e-mail?
Thanks for your advice.
Luis

I'm no AIX nor Universe expert, but AIX does support sendmail. You don't
mention whether email is configured on your AIX box or not, but if it it is
then you might like to refer to
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...5/sendmail.htm
which has details on how to use sendmail from the command line.

I believe this will send text email by writing it first to a unix file, and
the executing the sendmail command from within Universe (I'm not sure if
Universe has a special databasic command to run Unix commands or not)
redirecting the file you've written as input to sendmail --- eg
sendmail -options < myemail.txt

There are probably other solutions, depending on how your email is
configured.. There may be other pre-packaged solutions which just sit in
Universe as databasic code which you can call, but again I'm no expert.
This may just give you a couple of pointers until somebody else comes up
with a better suggestion!!

Hope this helps.

Regards
Simon
"luis torres" <luis.torres1 (AT) worldnet (DOT) att.net> wrote

luis torres wrote:
Hi Luis,
have a look at http://www.blat.net/
may help, may not.

"Simon" <simon.adams (AT) salmat (DOT) com.au> wrote:

Blat won't help for AIX.

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luis torres wrote:
and elm (although you can use mail, but we had problems with it).

\SH -c 'echo "\:VARIABLE.WITH.EMAIL.TEXT:\"|elm -s
"\:VARIABLE.WITH.SUBJECT:\"
\:VARIABLE.SPACE.DELIMITED.WITH.EMAIL.ADDRESSES:\' \

There are other variations we use to send text files and attachments, etc.