ASP form - email help

[yamangman]

I'm trying to set up a submit to email form in ASP, however I get the error:

"The transport failed to connect to the server."

The outbound server being smtp.dsl.pipex.com. What am I doing wrong?

It is being tested on IIS localhost, are there any settings I need to alter in the IIS SMTP Vserver?

If you need to see the code to help just ask

Cheers

[Spunkey]

ok, hands up and show the code Mr

shouldnt be anything you need to change on IIS, but is the IIS server also the Exchange server?

[yamangman]

theSchema="http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/"
Set cdoConfig=server.CreateObject("CDO.Configuration")
cdoConfig.Fields.Item(theSchema & "sendusing")=2
cdoConfig.Fields.Item(theSchema & "smtpserver")="smtp.dsl.pipex.com"
cdoConfig.Fields.Update
set cdoMessage=Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
cdoMessage.Configuration=cdoConfig
cdoMessage.From=Request.Form("email")
cdoMessage.To="my_email@dsl.pipex.com"
cdoMessage.Subject=Request.Form("subject")
cdoMessage.TextBody=Request.Form("body")
cdoMessage.Send
Set cdoMessage=Nothing
Set cdoConfig=Nothing

[Spunkey]

hmm never used CDO myself, i always go for either CDONTS or CDOSYS. I'm not sure how they pick up where the SMTP server is though (my web server is the exchange server too so its never been a problem). I'll have a dig around and see how it's setup.

heres some code...

  set oMail = server.createobject("CDONTS.NewMail")
  oMail.From = "me@myemail.com"
  oMail.To = "you@youremail.com"
  oMail.Subject = "Word Up Brudda"
  oMail.Body = "Hello my friend..... hello"
  oMail.MailFormat = 0   ' IIRC 0 = HTML, 1 = Text - Text is default if not specified
  oMail.Send

I'll go have a dig see if i can find out more info on where that drags up its SMTP settings from.
you should be able to use that off the bat as CDONTS is installed with IIS.

*editamundo*
Apparently CDONTS uses the system SMTP service of the IIS Machine, if this is running - job done!
Its done this way because supposedly having your Web Server connected to an SMTP server is, understandably, and open invitation for any DDoS knobheads to use your server as a launching pad to really screw up your day.

*even more editage*
heres a link with more info - about how to include attachments, HTML messages etc

HTH

[yamangman]

Awesome, ta very much mate

[yamangman]

It dosn't appear to like it however, I get:

ActiveX component can't create object: 'CDONTS.NewMail'

[Spunkey]

are you using Windows 2003 Server? Apparently its not installed by default for that OS, but CDOSYS is!

... and I've just realised thats what you were already using *smacks head repeatedly*
i hate mondays

try commenting the CDO Configuration object and anything referring to it as you shouldnt need it. Also the methods of the object are slightly different, heres so more info on what needs changing.

Hopefully *crosses limbs* that should work

[yamangman]

XP SP2

More errors, this time:

'The "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid. '

Now that really has me stumped. I have the line:

Set objMail = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")

Why wouldn't it inherit the .Send method?

[Spunkey]

Ahhhhh are you using ASP.net?
im guessing so as you're talking about inheritance - now it makes sense

I've hardly used .net at all, i was giving you info about the good old no error trapping ASP.

Heres the ASP101 guide on how to do it, can't be much more help than that though, sorry matey
http://www.asp101.com/samples/email_aspx.asp

[yamangman]

No, good ol' VBS . From what I can tell objMail would be a new instance of CDO.Message and therefore inherit it's parent methods and properties.

You've been a great help so far rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishey, have you any other ideas?

[Spunkey]

sorry i havent replied Yamang!

I tried looking up the error you're getting and got this page - http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/4.2.2.aspx - but that, as with all the results i got, is dealing with .Net ??

I've never really had this much of a problem with the webmail components to really know what to look for though

All i can suggest is checking in service manager to make sure the SMTP service is started and running as i have a sneaky feeling thats the key.

[yamangman]

That's the first thing I checked, it's all fired up 'n' ready to go. I'm just testing a few things with it, i'll report back later if I havn't fixed it.

[yamangman]

... suffice to say, it's still not working