I'm guessing that the delay is the time that ASP takes to create/send, for IIS SMTP to send the message, for the IMAIL server to receive the message, parse, and execute it... and you've turned the serial process into a parallel one.
I wouldn't use the program alias method since I can't predict how long the above process would take. If you created the user in a SQL database or used the WScript Object/adduser.exe in ASP for the registry back-end: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/wsoriWScriptObjectProp Meth.asp?frame=true (link should be on one line) Then, you can send the welcome email AFTER the add user process is complete, instead of DURING the add user process. Yes? -Norm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of VPNetwork Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] asp pages We are doing just that using the alias feature discussed in the knowledgebase at Ipswitch (Document ID IM-19991019-DM01). Our ASP sends an email to the alias which in turn creates the new user (the alias is an obscure name). We have tested this extensively and it works. We have noted that the server takes about two minutes to complete the process. We are currently working to resolve another related issue. This issue is we want to have the same ASP send a welcome email to the new user. So far we've found that the ASP action is to fast and we get an unknown user error. We're looking for a way to delay the message delivery so the server can catch up. Any body got any ideas? Terry Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
