CDOSYS and smarthost

[Dune]

I'm trying to send an email from my ASP page using
CDO.Message and CDO.Configuration. I couldn't get this to
work for ages and all my emails ended up in
inetpub\mailroot\queue.

I'm behind a firewall and finally figured out that i have
to set the smarthost field for the SMTP Virtual Server in
IIS to get any emails to send. All good, the emails get
sent.

The part that confuses me is that in my code, no matter
what i set the cdoSMTPServer field for the
CDO.Configuration object to, it always works. I guess it's
using the smarthost field in the SMTP Virtual Server to
get the name of the server to use...but how will this all
work out on a different computer??

(What i would really like is for the code to use the
server specified in the cdoSMTPServer field instead of
relying on the configuration of the SMTP Virtual Server.)

Cheers

[Aaron Bertrand [MVP]]

Can you show your code? If you are specifying a server but mail is going to
the local folders, then you must be using cdoSendUsingPickup rather than
cdoSendUsingPort. I'll guess that if you use [url]www.timbuktu_doesn't[/url]
_exist.com it will still work, because CDO is ignoring the server name
you're sending because your code is telling it to use the local mail
folders.

--
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
[url]http://www.aspfaq.com/[/url]




"Dune" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:077d01c3d590$e2b3ffc0$a301280a@phx.gbl...

> I'm trying to send an email from my ASP page using
> CDO.Message and CDO.Configuration. I couldn't get this to
> work for ages and all my emails ended up in
> inetpub\mailroot\queue.
>
> I'm behind a firewall and finally figured out that i have
> to set the smarthost field for the SMTP Virtual Server in
> IIS to get any emails to send. All good, the emails get
> sent.
>
> The part that confuses me is that in my code, no matter
> what i set the cdoSMTPServer field for the
> CDO.Configuration object to, it always works. I guess it's
> using the smarthost field in the SMTP Virtual Server to
> get the name of the server to use...but how will this all
> work out on a different computer??
>
> (What i would really like is for the code to use the
> server specified in the cdoSMTPServer field instead of
> relying on the configuration of the SMTP Virtual Server.)
>
> Cheers

[Dune]

hmmm, sorry, posted in wrong place!!

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm trying to send an email from my ASP page using
>CDO.Message and CDO.Configuration. I couldn't get this to
>work for ages and all my emails ended up in
>inetpub\mailroot\queue.
>
>I'm behind a firewall and finally figured out that i have
>to set the smarthost field for the SMTP Virtual Server in
>IIS to get any emails to send. All good, the emails get
>sent.
>
>The part that confuses me is that in my code, no matter
>what i set the cdoSMTPServer field for the
>CDO.Configuration object to, it always works. I guess

it's

>using the smarthost field in the SMTP Virtual Server to
>get the name of the server to use...but how will this all
>work out on a different computer??
>
>(What i would really like is for the code to use the
>server specified in the cdoSMTPServer field instead of
>relying on the configuration of the SMTP Virtual Server.)
>
>Cheers
>.
>

[Dune]

here's my code:

Dim iMsg
Set iMsg = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")

Dim iConf
Set iConf = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Configuration")

Dim Flds
Set Flds = iConf.Fields
Flds("cdoSendUsingMethod") = 2 'cdoSendUsingPort
' this is actually set to the server name in my code
Flds("cdoSMTPServer") = "smarthostServerName"
Flds("cdoSMTPServerPort") = 25
Flds("cdoSMTPAuthenticate") = 0 'cdoAnonymous
Flds.Update

With iMsg
Set .Configuration = iConf
.To = Request.Form("txtEmail")
.From = "helpdesk@quotable.co.nz"
.Sender = "helpdesk@quotable.co.nz"
.Subject = "QVNZ - Reset Password"
.TextBody = "This is a test email."
.Send
End With

Set iMsg = Nothing
Set iConf = Nothing

>-----Original Message-----
>Can you show your code? If you are specifying a server

but mail is going to

>the local folders, then you must be using

cdoSendUsingPickup rather than

>cdoSendUsingPort. I'll guess that if you use

[url]www.timbuktu_doesn't[/url]

>_exist.com it will still work, because CDO is ignoring

the server name

>you're sending because your code is telling it to use the

local mail

>folders.
>
>--
>Aaron Bertrand
>SQL Server MVP
>[url]http://www.aspfaq.com/[/url]
>
>
>
>
>"Dune" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

message

>news:077d01c3d590$e2b3ffc0$a301280a@phx.gbl...

>> I'm trying to send an email from my ASP page using
>> CDO.Message and CDO.Configuration. I couldn't get this

to

>> work for ages and all my emails ended up in
>> inetpub\mailroot\queue.
>>
>> I'm behind a firewall and finally figured out that i

have

>> to set the smarthost field for the SMTP Virtual Server

in

>> IIS to get any emails to send. All good, the emails get
>> sent.
>>
>> The part that confuses me is that in my code, no matter
>> what i set the cdoSMTPServer field for the
>> CDO.Configuration object to, it always works. I guess

it's

>> using the smarthost field in the SMTP Virtual Server to
>> get the name of the server to use...but how will this

all

>> work out on a different computer??
>>
>> (What i would really like is for the code to use the
>> server specified in the cdoSMTPServer field instead of
>> relying on the configuration of the SMTP Virtual

Server.)

>>
>> Cheers

>
>
>.
>