RE: i5 text message solution

Vern,

We were running MMAIL, (send emails with attachments) but when it broke and we couldn't get support, we found another solution.
I'm still not sure how the reply on a text message will be handled.
Our Exchange server actually does the email/text, so the reply will probably be in a mailbox on our Exchange server.
I will have to figure out how to forward them back to the I (if possible) and where they would then reside on the i.

Paul

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:48 AM
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Subject: Re: i5 text message solution

Paul

We just purchased this product for reading POP3 mailboxes. Will be using it to receive attachments from various sources.

I used to work at RJS so am fairly familiar with the product. There is good information at http://wiki.rjssoftware.com/wiki - look for documentation in the menu there.

There is a java-based command (POPRECVJ) that you need to use in order to get attachments, as I recall - at least, that's what we'll be using.
There are some details that are not available on that page, either call support at RJS or contact me offlist if you like, I'll let you know what I've figured out.

This is NOT a <verndor response>!

I took a look at the POP3 stuff at easy400.net - there are a couple items there - a simple POP3 client that doesn't separate attachments, according to the docs there. There's also an email app called AMailer that is bundled with the MMAIL item there - it has command PRCUSRMAIL - I've not dug in too deep, but it does have separate exits for message body and attachments - these could be what Jon mentioned, I think. YMMV.

Regards
Vern

On 4/16/2013 2:02 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

Dan,

Can you please point me to more info about your POP400 product.

Thanks
Paul

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Kimmel
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 2:52 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: i5 text message solution

<vendor>
We offer a POP400 product that receives email to a stream file, logs to a database table, and calls your exit. Your exit can do anything it wants with the email. Security exposure is limited to what you do in the exit.
</vendor>

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steinmetz, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:23 PM
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Subject: RE: i5 text message solution

Booth,

I contacted Message-Media, they offer a simple cloud "gateway" solution. We could use either SNDDST or SNDSMTPEMM, for 1 way text messaging.
2 way text messaging is another animal. To receive responses, I believe we would have to configure AS/400 to be a POP3 mail server, possible security issues.
Has anyone done this or receiving email on the AS/400.

Message-Media Response - How Email to SMS will work:
1) We would register an email address to allow access to our gateway to send messages. The format would be 1xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx. You would be sending MessageMedia an email we would convert to a text message. No need to know the carrier we would handle that. You can register as many email address as you like to send us messages. Ie. info@xxxxxxxxxx. If you want to demo it, all I would need is the email address you want registered and I would set up a test account

We do offer a 2-way option, the end user can respond to the text message and we would push back that message to the email account it came from. Now after talking you mentioned you would have to then get that message to your AS/400 system. That would require some work on your end. We can get it back to the email, you would need to push it to your system. There is no additional cost for replies, we give them for free.

Thanks
Paul

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 4:13 PM
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Subject: Re: i5 text message solution

Have you considered using a service such as:

http://www.message-media.com/





On 4/9/2013 1:49 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

We would like start sending text messages from our i5 OS billing system to our customers. The problem is that we don't know the customer's cell provider and this is needed to send a text.

Examples
Verizon - phonenumber@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:phonenumber@xxxxxxxxx>
AT&T- phonenumber@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:phonenumber@xxxxxxxxxxx>
T-Mobile - phonenumber@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:phonenumber@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sprint -
phonenumber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:phonenumber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
n
tpcs.com>

Are there any iSeries solutions available for this?

Thank You
_____
Paul Steinmetz
IBM i Systems Administrator

Pencor Services, Inc.
471 Delaware Ave
Palmerton Pa 18071

610-826-9117 work
610-826-9188 fax
610-349-0913 cell
610-377-6012 home

psteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:psteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
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