MMail did provide a flexible tool to send e-mail. No tool however was available within MMail to receive e-mail. To receive e-mail you need some basic facilities: a POP-client, that contacts POP-servers asking for mail an e-mail presentation manager, able to understand the structure of a mail (MIME) document, and to display both its body and its attachments If you implement such a mail-receiver, you are one step from providing a complete mailer. Just add facilities to reply to mail messages, send new messages, organize your mail, set up your address book and you are done.

This is what AMailer is:

• a WEB mailer for IBM iSeries
• using at full extent the iSeries Integrated File System (IFS)
  to store incoming, outgoing and archived e-mail messages and attachments
• totally written in ILE-RPG CGI
• open-source (full sources, no charge)
• imbedded in the MMAIL utility and integrated with it

This is what you can do with it:

• define multiple users
  • users can be "Local" or "Internet"
  • "local" users are not enrolled as mail customers at any Internet Service Provider (ISP); however, they may connect to the iSeries server running AMailer, exchange mail messages among themselves, even send mail to any regular internet e-mail user, but cannot receive mail from internet e-mail users, because they are not served by any ISP (therefore they are no one in the Internet world).
    Example of such users could be all the people in a Company running an iSeries.
  • "internet" users own individual Internet e-mail addresses, and are used to manage their mail on PC's. Now, with AMailer they can also manage their mail through their iSeries. This could be a useful backup solution.
  • See Define User Accounts and Appendix A.
• logon as a mail user and
  • receive, display, and catalog your incoming mail
  • reply to messages or send new messages
  • See Work as user and Appendix D.
• start a never-ending batch job (named POSTMAN) that, at a given time interval, receives and delivers to the AMailer users their incoming mail
  • See Appendix B.
• process the incoming mail for a given user with your own programs
  • See Appendix C.

AMailer is included in the iSeries MIME & Mail Utility (library MMAIL) distributed by this Easy400 site. For prerequisites and so on, see this page.

AMailer is authored by Giovanni B. Perotti, Italy.