Re: Have AS/400 act on an email message

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Why don't the planners start the MRP submission?  In effect, if it can be 
done automatically based on an email they send, then figure out a way to 
let them start it without email.  After all, the email gives them the 
control anyway.

Using email sounds too much like a script kiddies interface to your 
backend system.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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How would I get the AS/400 to act on an email message? For example, the
mailman mailing list software lets you put commands in a message body, and 
a
program acts on the message when received.

I get an email from our material planners every Friday for the parameters
for our weekly MRP submission. Now the MRP submission is mostly automated,
once I have these parameters. What I would like is for the planner to send
an email to the AS/400, and have a program grab the email body, verify the
MRP parameters (done), and run the MRP submission program.

I know I must set up POP3 on the 400, but where/how do I hook to run 
custom
programs when emails are received? Any pointers to doco welcome.

Thanks,
Loyd

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Loyd Goodbar
Programmer/analyst
BorgWarner Incorporated
ETS/Water Valley
662-473-5713
lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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