Sending email using CDOSYS ( THE REAL DEAL )

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Updated: 06/27/2005

Sending email using CDOSYS ( THE REAL DEAL ): If you are using a Windows 2000 / 2003 Server, or even XP Pro chances are that CDOSYS is your best bet for sending email from Active Server Pages. That is because CDOSYS is installed on all of them by default. Gone are the days of using CDONTS which was the old way of sending email from ASP. CDOSYS is it''s replacement. That being said there are actually a lot of ways to configure and use CDOSYS. When I 1st started using CDOSYS I assumed the CDOSYS code I was using would work in any situation, but that is not the case. This is something most articles about CDOSYS do not mention so I am going to show you 3 different CDOSYS examples each sending email using a slightly different method.

Sending an HTML-Formatted Email Sample: This code sample will show you how to send HTML-formatted email messages. The code is written using CDO for 2000, but there is a CDONTS version as well for those of you still running on NT4.

Sending File from Client''s Computer as Attachment: It is a program for emailing a file from the client''s computer by email using CDONTS feature of ASP. No third party utility for uploading the file to the server is needed. Simple codes that need to be included for the execution of the program a...

Recommend my site to friends: This is a couple of ASP scripts to let your visitors send a site recommendation email to their friends. It uses CDONTS for sending email and includes an email address validation function.

ASP 3.0 Programmer''s Reference: This book is for ASP developers who need the facts at their fingertips on a whole range of technologies which are likely to be integral to any ASP application. It is designed to provide an instant reference to all aspects of ASP, and also to the key ...

Send E-Mail via ASP without CDONTS: This package includes ASP code to write e-mail messages to a file and a VB application that checks this file for messages at specified intervals and sends them. This solution is useful if you don''t have CDONTS installed on your web server, or y...

Sending an HTML-Formatted Email Sample