Sending output to an email destination

You can send VTAM® application output to an email destination instead of to a printer. Or, you can send output to both an email destination and to a printer if your administrator creates a printer pool definition in the Printer Inventory.

You can use one or more of these methods to specify email addresses:

• Your administrator can specify the email addresses of the primary and secondary recipients in the printer definition for the email destination in the Printer Inventory.
• You can embed the mail-to-addresses, the mail-cc-addresses, and the mail-bcc-addresses job attributes in the print data. See Embedding job attributes in print data.
• You can specify the email addresses for the recipients in an email header. For information, see Creating an email header.

The email has these characteristics:

• Data is sent inline in the body of the email or as an email attachment. The name of the attachment is the VTAM PLU name of the application that sent the data.

  To send data inline in the body of the email, the administrator can select the Inline text and line data field in the printer definition, or you can embed the mail-inline-text job attribute in the print data.

  To specify an attachment name, embed the mail-file-name job attribute in the print data. The job attribute overrides other values.

• The subject of the email is the member name of the NetSpool startup procedure.

  To specify a subject, the administrator can specify a title in the printer definition, you can embed the title-text job attribute in the print data, or you can specify the subject field in an email header.

• The sender is the ID of the user who started the Infoprint Server daemons.

  To specify a descriptive name for the sender, the administrator can specify the descriptive name in the printer definition, you can embed the mail-from-name job attribute in the print data, or you can specify the from field in an email header.

• The reply address is the sender of the email. However, email recipients should not reply to the sender because typically that user ID cannot receive mail.

  To specify a reply address, the administrator can specify a reply address in the printer definition, you can embed the mail-reply-address job attribute in the print data, or you can specify the reply-to field in an email header.