CDONTS is driving me crazy. Please help !!!

[owen]

Hi,

I am trying to create a web page in ASP where the user enters their name and
email address, and when they submit the form, an email is automatically sent
to them. I am using CDONTs to try and acheive this. Right now I'm just
testing with my own email address in the "To" property.

The problem: The email does not get sent.

When tested on my local machine, no email is sent whatsoever. The problem
is slightly different when I tried it on the internet: The test email wasnt
sent, but I got an "Undeliverable mail" email sent to my "From" address.

I have checked the following already:
1) I am definately using a VALID "From" and "To" address. (the "To" is my
own email address, the "From" is something like "mail@mydomain.co.uk" where
mydomain is my website domain name).
2) The "From" and "To" addresses are different to each other.
3) CDONTs is definately installed and registered on my machine + my webhost.
4) SMTP service is running on my machine + my webhost.
5) There is nothing fancy in the "Body" property, just plain text.

This seems to be a fairly common problem, but I cannot find a definitive
answer. I would really appreciate a simple answer to get this working, or
alternatively a link to some kind of FAQ page for CDONTs problems.

Thanks!
Owen

PS. would appreciate replies cc'd via email :o)
[email]owen.southwood@mantix.com[/email]

[Adrian Forbes [ASP MVP]]

> 3) CDONTs is definately installed and registered on my machine + my
webhost.

CDONTS is just a wrapper object that creates files in the Pickup folder of
your server. It will never fail and doesn't actually send e-mail

> 4) SMTP service is running on my machine + my webhost.

It is the SMTP service that sends the mail so yours probably isn't correctly
configured. Have you tried trying to send mail through your SMTP service
using, say Outlook or Outlook Express?

[owen]

"Adrian Forbes [ASP MVP]" <sorry@noemail.zzz> wrote in message
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> > 3) CDONTs is definately installed and registered on my machine + my

> webhost.
>
> CDONTS is just a wrapper object that creates files in the Pickup folder of
> your server. It will never fail and doesn't actually send e-mail
>

> > 4) SMTP service is running on my machine + my webhost.

>
> It is the SMTP service that sends the mail so yours probably isn't

correctly

> configured. Have you tried trying to send mail through your SMTP service
> using, say Outlook or Outlook Express?
>

By that do you mean do anything different to my usual with Outlook?

Emails work fine with Outlook but not with CDONTS.


Owen

[owen]

"Adrian Forbes [ASP MVP]" <sorry@noemail.zzz> wrote in message
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> > 3) CDONTs is definately installed and registered on my machine + my

> webhost.
>
> CDONTS is just a wrapper object that creates files in the Pickup folder of
> your server. It will never fail and doesn't actually send e-mail

OK so where is this pickup folder (where can I find out?) so I can check the
mails are actually sitting there.

I think the problem is that CDONTS' emails are "sitting" in the pickup
folder and never being "pushed" out by SMTP.

Owen

[Serve Laurijssen]

"owen" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> OK so where is this pickup folder (where can I find out?) so I can check

the

> mails are actually sitting there.
>
> I think the problem is that CDONTS' emails are "sitting" in the pickup
> folder and never being "pushed" out by SMTP.

Look in inetpub\mailroot
If the mail is in the drop directory it is probably already sent because you
sent the mail to the same domainname as the server's domain.
Try sending a mail to an external account.

[Robin]

If you're running Office 2000 that is probably why it's not working. Check
Microsoft's Knowledge-base, I think they explain it in there. But it has
something to do with MAPI being disabled.


"owen" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create a web page in ASP where the user enters their name

and

> email address, and when they submit the form, an email is automatically

sent

> to them. I am using CDONTs to try and acheive this. Right now I'm just
> testing with my own email address in the "To" property.
>
> The problem: The email does not get sent.
>
> When tested on my local machine, no email is sent whatsoever. The problem
> is slightly different when I tried it on the internet: The test email

wasnt

> sent, but I got an "Undeliverable mail" email sent to my "From" address.
>
> I have checked the following already:
> 1) I am definately using a VALID "From" and "To" address. (the "To" is my
> own email address, the "From" is something like "mail@mydomain.co.uk"

where

> mydomain is my website domain name).
> 2) The "From" and "To" addresses are different to each other.
> 3) CDONTs is definately installed and registered on my machine + my

webhost.

> 4) SMTP service is running on my machine + my webhost.
> 5) There is nothing fancy in the "Body" property, just plain text.
>
> This seems to be a fairly common problem, but I cannot find a definitive
> answer. I would really appreciate a simple answer to get this working, or
> alternatively a link to some kind of FAQ page for CDONTs problems.
>
> Thanks!
> Owen
>
> PS. would appreciate replies cc'd via email :o)
> [email]owen.southwood@mantix.com[/email]
>
>