SMTPNOTE command: Send electronic mail to one or more recipients on NJE or TCP networks

Purpose

Use the SMTPNOTE command to send electronic mail to one or more recipients on NJE or TCP networks.

Format


>>-SMTPNOTE--+----------------------+--------------------------->
             '-To-- (--recipient--)-'   

>--+----------------------+--+-------------------------+-------->
   +-Cc-- (--recipient--)-+  '-Subject-- (--subject--)-'   
   '-NOCc-----------------'                                

>--+------------------------------------------+----------------><
   +-Dataset-- (--data_set_name--)--+-------+-+   
   |                                '-Batch-' |   
   '-Reuse------------------------------------'

Note: The minimum abbreviation for each parameter is shown in uppercase letters.

Parameters

To (recipient)

Specifies a single recipient for the mail. If you do not specify the To parameter, you are prompted to enter a list of recipients. Enter the name of each recipient on a separate line and end the list with a blank line. You must specify at least one mail recipient.

Cc (recipient)

Specifies a single copy recipient for the mail. If you do not specify the Cc parameter and you do not specify the NOCc or Batch parameters, you are prompted to enter a list of copy recipients.

If there are no recipients, press Enter. Otherwise, enter the name of each recipient on a separate line and end the list with a blank line.

NOCc

Specifies that no prompting for Cc takes place.

recipient

Specifies the path address of the mail recipient. The format of recipient is equivalent to the path syntax, as described in RFC 821, without the (<) and (>) delimiters. See Related protocol specifications for information about obtaining RFCs. This recipient parameter has one of the following formats:

user_id@host_name: User on a host in your domain, possibly on your local node.
user_id@host_name .domain: User on a host in a specified domain.
user_id%nje_host_name@ gateway_name.domain: User on an NJE or RSCS node connected to a TCP network at gateway_name. See Electronic mail gateway for more information.
@host1,@host2,...,@hostn :user_id @host_name: User on a host that is not known by the local Domain Name server, but that can be reached by following the path from host1 to hostn.

Subject (subject)

Specifies the subject of the note. If you do not specify the Subject parameter, you are prompted for the subject.

If there is no subject for the note, press Enter. If Subject is specified as a keyword, you cannot have embedded blanks. Otherwise, the subject can be any arbitrary string of characters, but is limited to a total length of 233 characters.

Batch

Specifies that no prompting take place. You must also specify the To and Dataset parameters.

Dataset (data_set_name)

Indicates that the text of the mail is contained in a sequential data set. The data set can have any record format, be blocked or unblocked, and have records of up to 243 characters in length. The data_set_name is the name of the sequential data set containing the text of the note. It must be a valid data set name, and is fully qualified if it is contained within single quotation marks (').

Reuse

Causes SMTP to reuse the contents of a note that was previously canceled. If a note was not canceled, the Reuse parameter is ignored.

Usage

When the To(), Cc(), Subject(), or Dataset() parameters are specified more than once, the last value specified is the one used by SMTPNOTE. No error messages are generated for duplicate parameters on the command line.
SMTPNOTE no longer requires quotation marks around blanks, single quotation marks, semicolons, or commas, or triple quotation marks around data set names.
Do not use extended attribute data sets (PDSE) with SMTPNOTE.