AW: Internet E-mail sender address

[Graf, Josef]

Hi Jim,
this issue was discussed on October 2000 in this forum.
I copied the relevant emails. Hope it's of any help for
you.
 
Joe
 
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Hello Thorsten,
many thanks for your tips, they are golden for me. I coded an own =
method
copied from the programm rssokif1 mentioned in your BCI-dokumentation =
and it
works well.
Many thanks for a second time.
erich
 
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> Von:  Dr. Thorsten Wewers[SMTP:thorsten.wewers at bmt-consulting.de]
> Gesendet:     Donnerstag, 28. September 2000 14:16
> An:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Betreff:      AW: Sending Internet mails with different sender(!) =
e-mail
> adresses.
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> Erich,
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> I built this for a customer just recently in 4.6; presumably, it =
works in
> earlier releases as well. The basic idea is to make use of the BOR =
object
> types MESSAGE and RECIPIENT (especially the method =
MESSAGE.SetNextSender).
> These object types provide the functionality of the so-called =
Business
> Communication Interface (BCI). How they work is described very well =
in the
> R/3 library under Basis->Basis Services->...->BCI. Another source of
> information to familarize yourself with the BCI, are the reports =
named
> RSSOBCITEST## where "##" is a 2-digit number; they are provided by =
SAP as
> samples for BCI use (they are there in 4.6 at least).
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> Finally, you can incorporate the coding in the
> SELFITEM.SendTaskDescription
> method by adding an optional import parameter "SenderAddress". What =
you
> then
> have, is a nice and flexible mechanism that is close to the standard =
as
> well.
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> Don't hesitate to contact me directly if you need more detailed
> information.
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> Cheers,
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> Thorsten Wewers
> http://www.bmt-consulting.de
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> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU]Im Auftrag von
> Gruber Erich F. VASL/FAF
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. September 2000 13:27
> An: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Betreff: Sending Internet mails with different sender(!) e-mail
> adresses.
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> Hi, who can help me.
> I send Internet mails (SMTP) with the method "SendTaskDescription" of =
the
> object "SELFITEM" (like dokumented and used in the SAP-task  =
TS30000102 of
> WS30000015).
> It works well.
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> But i have one problem:
> The adress of the sender of the e-mail is always the same, namely the
> Internet mail (SMTP) address of the RFC-Workflow-User in SAP (which =
is the
> creator for batch-workitems).
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> But now i have different applikations and i have to give the =
mail-receiver
> the possibility to send back (=3D to answer) to the correct official =
in
> charge
> and not to a workflowadministrator.
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> Has anybody an idea, how to make variable the sender Internet adress =
(at
> best with a container element)?
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> Is it possible to customize the object "SELFITEM"? I tried, but i did =
not
> succeed.
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> thank you in advance:
> Erich Gruber
> Voest-Alpine Stahl Linz Gmbh
> Austria
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> E-Mail: erich.f.gruber at voest.co.at
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> -----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jim Gillett [mailto:jim_gillett at rac.ray.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 24. September 2001 15:38
> An: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Betreff: Internet E-mail sender address
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> We want to use Workflow to send E-mail to an internet E-mail system.
> We also have more than one Workflow application that needs to =
generate
> internet E-mail.  Have created standard tasks using SELFITEM object
> task and SENDTASKDESCRIPTION method.  All of this works fine with
> internet mail except we would like to use a different E-mail sender
> (from) address for each  Workflow application.  Currently the sender
> address defaults to the internet  mail address assigned to user
> WF-BATCH.
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> Does anyone know how to define a different internet sender address =
for
> each Workflow application.
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> Thanks
> Jim Gillett
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