Read in a mail box

bart12872 · Post by **bart12872** » Thu May 22, 2008 6:46 am

Hi,

In a Datastage PX job, Is it possible to have a mailbox in source and read mail ?
If not, may a buildOp development could do this task ?

And if is really not possible in Datastage PX, is there another Ascential software that can make this task (like perhaps the EAI datastage TX) ?

thanks,
bart.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu May 22, 2008 6:48 am

You can use an external source to do this. First you need to figure out what the UNIX or Windows command will be that reads the mailbox. What mail system do you intend to read?

bart12872 · Post by **bart12872** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:01 am

It's a lotus mailbox

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:03 am

You mean Notes? Ugh. Is there a command line interface for that?

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:14 am

no easy command line, but the good news is that there is ODBC connectivity to Lotus Notes!

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:24 am

I mentioned ODBC in my post, check that out with Lotus Notes.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:24 am

Yes, you are correct and that is what we are talking about.