TechTip: Using the QTMMSENDMAIL API

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I enjoyed your article and It did come at a perfect time for me. One more thing, is there a way to include html in the body of the email.

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There is a way to include html in the email body. Simply change the "Content-Type:" from "text/plain" to "text/html". You also may need to change the "Content-Transfer-Encoding:" to "7bit". Remember that not some people still use the old ASCII-text email agents and will not be able to display the HTML correctly. The most common way to handle this is to include comments in your HTML that explain "If you are reading this..." then your email client cannot display HTML. Jeff

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And then again, many of us use e-mail clients capable of rendering HTML but we explicitly disable the feature. A great way to differentiate spam from acceptable e-mail is that spammers usually send e-mails with HTML content. HTML content is also a great way to propogate viruses. If you absolutely have to have HTML rendering enabled in your e-mail client, at the very least disable JavaScript. Cheers! Hans

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Jeff, Thanks for the article! I have been wanting to experiment with this API for quite some time and your article was the perfect excuse. I have written a simple program that creates a mime message with embedded html. This file is created in a PF and I then use CPYTOSTMF to place it in the IFS. When I then attempt to send this email, nothing happens. The strange part is that I can open the mime message in a text browser (UltrEdit), save it, and then the email will go! I have debugged the program and QUSEI is blank after the call to SENDMAIL. What coulf I be doing wrong? Thanks, Joe

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Out of curiosity, I modified the program that creates the file to write the file directly to the IFS. Unfortunately, the results are the same! Joe

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I figured it out - it was an authority issue! Public had no authority.

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i'm trying to do the same. Create an email with html tags embedded in the body of the email itself. Not as an attachment but within the body of the email. I need to do this by ising the snddst command. thanks hutchinsm@classic-cable.com

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i'm trying to do the same. Create an email with html tags embedded in the body of the email itself. Not as an attachment but within the body of the email. I need to do this by ising the snddst command. thanks hutchinsm@classic-cable.com

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It is my understanding that there is no way to use SNDDST to send an email with embedded html. That is the appeal of using the QTMMSENDMAIL API. Joe

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Joe is right. You can't do this because the SNDDST command inserts the "content-type=text/plain" header in the email. This will cause anything you place in the *LMSG parameter to be interpreted as plain text not as HTML. sorry. Jeff

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The way its done is not pretty but it appears to work... Here's the SNDDST command I used. Its the "--PART.BOUNDARY.1:/NContent-Type: text/html:/N" that makes the difference. Everything beyond that point will be interpreted as HTML. Its kind of a kluge but it works. Jeff

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I tried the code you provided. It still comes across as an attachment. I did not want the user to have to open any attachment but able to view within the preview pane. If you come up anything else i would appreciate it. In the meantime, i'll research this QTMMSENDMAIL api you're talking about. thanks

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