I am a newbie with Dreamweaver and with ASP.NET. I created a form where
the data is submitted to a SQL database and an email is sent notifying
the proper staff member that the database has been updated. The email
uses CDOSYS and our Exchange 2000 mail server. We are using IIS 5.

Updating the database works fine. However, when I put in the script to
send the email, I get a "permission denied" error message.

The person who administers our Exchange server told me that in order to
make CDOSYS work, he would have to give the IIS anonymous user
permissions on Exchange, which would be a security problem.

Is there any way to work around this? He prefers that we use PHP
instead of ASP.NET. And if that's really necessary, I'll deal with it.
However, I want to do a reality check and verify that using CDOSYS with
Exchange from IIS really is a security risk.

Thank you!

Donna