Email from Web Site

[Fred]

Hello group and thanks to those who reply.

I want to setup and do emails from my web site (site will be hosted
supporting ASP or ASP.NET) I found that my host supports the following
CDOSYS, jmail, and aspmail.

Does anyone have any suggestions on which one I should use? And secondly,
how/where could I get the software so I can support it on my test web site?

Thanks

Fred

 

[Steve Easton]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "set up and do emails"

Do you mean you want to have email addresses associated with your domain??

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[chris leeds]

you'll have to explain "do email" but if you're talking about running an opt
in mailing list I recently found this:
http://emailmover.com I bought a different app from that company and it was
exceptional. Figure the email app will be similarly good, but haven't
bought/ tried it yet. ;-)

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[Fred]

Sorry for not being more specific.
What I want to is add some email functionality to my site to have the
ability to create and send emails for the ASP code.

Such as:
1) I would like to have the ability to email a forgotten password to a user
2) Send out a newsletter
3) Have the ability for a user to email a friend about my site sort of like
"tell a friend" I've sent on other sites.

Thanks

Fred

 

[chris leeds]

if you've got asp and cdonts check www.asp101.com for some good examples.

each of the things you mention is slightly different, the emailing password
would require some programming beyond just sending the password (unless
there's only one)

"tell a friend" is pretty easy, I've got a little script you can have,
there's an example on my site.

newsletter is a whole arena of it's own from using a third party service
that does it for you, to a script like I suggested previously, or even
running it from outlook (which can do a fairly good job with lots of
functionality if you don't mind working at it).




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[Fred]

Chris

Thanks for your reply but I'm still confused.

Here is what I have:

1) My web host says that they support the following ways to send emails -
cdosys, jmail, and aspmail.

2) My test web server IIS on XP pro - I run selfdiag.asp (from Jim Buyens)
and this is what I get:
CDONTS.NewMail - unavailable,
CDO.Message - Available

My questions are:

1) What is my best choice for sending emails from ASP or ASP.NET code. Is it
using the CDOSYS object?

2) What is 'CDOSYS'? I've read that it is a replacement for CDONTS object
but I don't know how to get it, install it, and write code for it.

3) Looks like I have the object CDO installed on my test web server is this
object part of CDOSYS? or is this a different object altogether?

My goal is to configure my test web server to be compatible with the server
when I have it hosted on the internet.

Any suggestions or comments will be greatly appreciated

Fred

 

[chris leeds]

I usually just rig the form up for the server and don't even look at it
locally. I see there's a mail-root in iis but you'd be best off asking
about the mail server in the IIS newsgroup.
You really don't need a parallel universe on both your local computer and
the server. (IMHO)

the rest inline;

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Chris

Thanks for your reply but I'm still confused.

Here is what I have:

1) My web host says that they support the following ways to send emails -
cdosys, jmail, and aspmail.

2) My test web server IIS on XP pro - I run selfdiag.asp (from Jim Buyens)
and this is what I get:
CDONTS.NewMail - unavailable,
CDO.Message - Available

unless you're building some kind of app, I'd just deal with it on the server
web.

My questions are:

1) What is my best choice for sending emails from ASP or ASP.NET code. Is it
using the CDOSYS object?

CDOSYS/ is the replacement so I guess it's the way to go.

2) What is 'CDOSYS'? I've read that it is a replacement for CDONTS object
but I don't know how to get it, install it, and write code for it.

http://asp101.com has good examples to get you a quick form or two, there
are more if you search.

3) Looks like I have the object CDO installed on my test web server is this
object part of CDOSYS? or is this a different object altogether?

My goal is to configure my test web server to be compatible with the server
when I have it hosted on the internet.

Why pull your hair out. Unless you intend to really get into all the ins
and outs of running a server it's hard to justify the time you'll spend
creating this paralell.

 

[Jim Buyens]

Responses interspersed...

Chris

Thanks for your reply but I'm still confused.

Here is what I have:

1) My web host says that they support the following ways to send emails -
cdosys, jmail, and aspmail.

2) My test web server IIS on XP pro - I run selfdiag.asp (from Jim Buyens)
and this is what I get:
CDONTS.NewMail - unavailable,
CDO.Message - Available

My questions are:

1) What is my best choice for sending emails from ASP or ASP.NET code. Is it
using the CDOSYS object?

Use CDO.Message.

2) What is 'CDOSYS'? I've read that it is a replacement for CDONTS object
but I don't know how to get it, install it, and write code for it.

It's CDO.Message.

3) Looks like I have the object CDO installed on my test web server is this
object part of CDOSYS? or is this a different object altogether?

It's CDO.Message.

My goal is to configure my test web server to be compatible with the server
when I have it hosted on the internet.

Any suggestions or comments will be greatly appreciated

Fred

For sample code using the CDO.Messge object, refer to:

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