sounds like a DNS problem with that server, for example if the server cannot lookup the FROM address supplied in the email it is trying to send then it will not send it. Your servers built in SMTP help files are surprisingly useful. I think the file is called smtp.hlp
anyway, heres the message format: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cdosys/html /_cdosys_the_rfc_822_message_format.asp HTH Sam Thompson ---------------------------------------------- 2cs Communications Ltd http://www.2cs.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 01473 622263 F: 01473 622515 ----------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Abaffy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ActiveServerPages" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 5:02 PM Subject: RE: Sending mails using CDONTS and a remote SMTP server in ASP > When you say proprer format (Do you have an example of proper format??) I > too am having trouble with cdonts and mail. I had a mail server running > IMail and a web server on a different machine with SMTP all set up on it. > CDONTS and mail worked just great on this machine. Then it blew up, so I had > to move all the web sites over to the other machine, and when I did that all > mail stopped goiing out. Even though CreateObject lines of code did not > cause any errors and by all accounts it looked like mail went out as > expected, although no emails were actually sent. So if this is a solution I > will try it. If I can find out what the proper format is. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sam Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:17 AM > To: ActiveServerPages > Subject: Re: Sending mails using CDONTS and a remote SMTP server in ASP > > > you can use the FileSystemObject to create a text file (email) in the Pickup > directory (inetpub\mailroot\pickup) on the server which does have the SMTP > service available. Files placed in the pickup directory are automatically > sent as emails (assuming the file is in the correct format). > > OR.... use JMail. > > HTH > Sam Thompson > ---------------------------------------------- > 2cs Communications Ltd > http://www.2cs.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > T: 01473 622263 > F: 01473 622515 > ----------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "vinay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ActiveServerPages" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 6:19 AM > Subject: Sending mails using CDONTS and a remote SMTP server in ASP > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have got a problem in sending mails using the CDONTS object of ASP. > > The server with all the site contents doesnt have an SMTP on it whereas it > > has the CDONTS mail object in it. There is another server which has SMTP > > server along with Exchange server running connected to this server in a > > LAN. Can I send mails using this remote SMTP server with CDONTS on the > > first server only ? Hope I have explained my problem clearly. > > > > Please help me out. > > > > Vinay. > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > %%email.unsub%% > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > %%email.unsub%% > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
