In recent years, the communication via e-mail has seen an exponential increase, allowing to improve and speed up communication and to reduce significantly the production of paper documents.
In the course of years various software solutions for e-mail integration for the AS400 have been created. Native solutions or based on other hardware and external software. The flaw in these solutions, apart from the need for additional hardware and interfaces, consisted in limitations due to the limited size of addresses, attachments, body and subject.