In a Unix environment, I had a device set up to send e-mail. The output was sent to a file, and a sh script containing "mailx " command was executed to send that file. The device was set up as follows:
Output to file
The device argument field: ASCII\/ mail.ksh %s
The device path field: /output.txt
The mail.ksh script executed the mailx command and the output.txt was sent via e-mail according to the script.
That was Unix!

Now I am in a Windows environment, and not windows savvy. Is there a method to send BaaN output via e-mail (Exchange)?
I would like to send reports from jobs to various users to avoid hard copy printing and eliminate the manual effort of attaching and sending files.
Other suggestions?
Thanks,
Sue

Your's is more an outlook question than baan's given the fact that the baan portion will work the same both in ux and win. Obviously you need to find the right way to create a windows version of your mail.ksh. Check on Outlook's documentation for the available flags.

What about enabling IIS and SMTP on your Baan server? I've never done this but what you do in unix is use unix's smtp server. If you have smtp working on the Win server where Baan is running you should be able to do the same...
Maybe one of our Guru friends at Baanboard had experimented with this and can share the experience with us.

And last (for now ;) ) if acquiring some software is a possibility check on Nazdaq's B2Email

Sue,

Since you are on the LN version you have all the BaaN standard CMF (eMessage Connector overview (http://www.baanboard.com/programmers_manual_baanerp_help_emessage_connector_overview)) functionality available for you to use. You have to build your own programs for email interfaces, else get Nazdaq Tools.

Use the keyword CMF to search for the existing discussions on this forum.

Hello Sue,

A little more basic this one but to replicate what you had in unix and without buiyng external software you could just find yourself a DOS type mailer. This would in effect replace the mailx command. Presumably this could be run form the Baan shell jobs in a windows setup.

We have MAILER.EXE which we picked up several years ago to alert users to EDI messages which are processed on the windows side of our network. The version we run is the DOS version but I'm sure later versions of it exist out there as shareware.

Please let me know if you require any more info.

Regards
Neal

Sue,

You can search here...something like "email device" for lots of information.

Also refer to - http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/showthread.php?t=22234&highlight=blat

and - http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/showthread.php?t=14300&highlight=email

Hope this helps.

regards,

-Suhas