Sending a file to an email destination

With the AOPPRINT procedure, you can send the file to an email destination instead of to a printer. You can specify the email addresses of the primary and secondary recipients in one of these ways:

• Your administrator can specify the email address list for the recipients in the printer definition in the Printer Inventory.
• You can specify the email addresses for the recipients using these job attributes:

  Use this attribute:

  To specify the email addresses of the:

  mail-bcc-addresses

  Blind copy (bcc) recipients of an email. A bcc means that other recipients of the email do not see the bcc recipient listed.

  mail-cc-addresses

  Copy (cc) recipients of an email. A cc means that other recipients of the email can see the cc recipient listed.

  mail-to-addresses

  Primary recipients of an email.

• You can specify the email addresses for the recipients in an email header. For information, see Creating an email header.

You can specify an address list in an alias file that your administrator defines to z/OS UNIX sendmail. For information, see Specifying the email address list in an alias file. Your administrator can specify the name of the alias file in the printer definition, or you can specify it in a job attribute.

The email has these characteristics:

• If the file contains text or line data, it can be included in an email attachment or inline in the body of the email. If the file contains data in another format (for example, PDF), the data is included in an attachment. To include text or line data inline, specify the mail-inline-text job attribute. Or, the administrator can select the Inline text and line data field in the printer definition.
• The name of the attachment is the name specified in one of these:

  IP PrintWay™ extended mode:

  1. The mail-file-name job attribute
  2. DD:SYSIN

  IP PrintWay basic mode:

  1. The mail-file-name job attribute
  2. The sysout-dataset-name job attribute
  3. DD#SYSIN

  The attachment name contains a suffix that indicates the type of data in the file. For example, txt indicates text format and pdf indicates PDF format.

• The subject of the email is the subject in the email header, the value in the title-text job attribute, or the default title your administrator specified in the Allocation section of the printer definition. If none is specified, the user ID of the user who ran the job is used.
• The sender is the user ID of the user who ran the job at the domain name of the z/OS system. You can add a descriptive name or other identifier of the sender in the mail-from-name job attribute.
• You can receive replies from the email unless a firewall prevents the z/OS system from receiving replies from the sending system. To receive replies, use the z/OS UNIX mail or mailx command. To use these commands, your ID must be a valid z/OS UNIX user ID. You can specify the email address that recipients of an email can reply to in the mail-reply-address job attribute. If none is specified, the value in the printer definition is used.