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I'm hoping someone can help me.  In our software we are able to generate and send out emails.  The current procedure we use is by calling a third party software that uses MAPI.  

Some of our customers are having issues running this, so I was wondering if there is a way in RM/COBOL to use SMPT? 

I'm hoping someone can help me.  In our software we are able to generate and send out emails.  The current procedure we use is by calling a third party software that uses MAPI.  

Some of our customers are having issues running this, so I was wondering if there is a way in RM/COBOL to use SMPT? 

Two solutions come to mind, and both involve CALL SYSTEM:

1) Call the free BLAT utility, which can be downloaded from www.blat.net to send your message.  This is a small Windows command line utility that sends SMTP messages.  The downside is that it doesn't appear to support SSL or START/TLS authentication protocols (although I could be wrong about that).  But if you have an in-house SMTP server, that shouldn't be an issue.

2) Write a .NET program in Visual COBOL, C# or VB.NET using the System.Mail.SmtpClient class and invoke it using CAL SYSTEM.  That gives you more flexibility at the cost of more complexity.

Hope this helps.

I'm hoping someone can help me.  In our software we are able to generate and send out emails.  The current procedure we use is by calling a third party software that uses MAPI.  

Some of our customers are having issues running this, so I was wondering if there is a way in RM/COBOL to use SMPT? 

Hi Amy,

You can use mailsend utility

code.google.com/.../mailsend

It supports ssl and has many options.

Regards,

Juan Urraburu

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