Question

Maximum Body Size For CDOSYS.Message?

Asked by: TheClickMaster

I try to send an email by using CDOSYS with this code

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Class EmailSender
    Private EMAIL_LIST_FILE
    Private cdoSendUsingMethod
    Private cdoSendUsingPort
    Private cdoSMTPServer
    Private cdoSMTPServerPort
    Private cdoSMTPConnectionTimeout
    Private cdoSMTPAuthenticate
    Private cdoBasic
    Private cdoSendUserName
    Private cdoSendPassword
       
    Public Sub SendMail(p_sContent)
        Dim objConfig  ' As CDO.Configuration
        Dim objMessage ' As CDO.Message
        Dim Fields
        Dim arrAddresses
        Dim n
       
        arrAddresses = GetAddresses()
       
        If IsArray(arrAddresses) Then
            ' Get a handle on the config object and it's fields
            Set objConfig = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Configuration")
            Set Fields = objConfig.Fields

            ' Set config fields we care about
            With Fields
                  .Item(cdoSendUsingMethod)       = cdoSendUsingPort
                  .Item(cdoSMTPServer)            = SMTP_SERVER
                  .Item(cdoSMTPServerPort)        = SMTP_PORT
                  .Item(cdoSMTPConnectionTimeout) = 60
                  .Item(cdoSMTPAuthenticate)      = cdoBasic
                  .Item(cdoSendUserName)          = SMTP_USER
                  .Item(cdoSendPassword)          = SMTP_PASSWORD
                  .Update
            End With

            Set objMessage = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
            Set objMessage.Configuration = objConfig
                                             
            For n = 0 To UBound(arrAddresses)
                part = 0
                While part < totalparts
                    With objMessage
                          .To       = arrAddresses(n)
                          .From     = "(DO NOT REPLY) <noreply@somewhere.com>"
                          .Subject  = "Order Confirmation"
                          .HTMLBody = p_sContent
                          .Send                                                  '<----  LINE 55
                    End With
                Wend
            Next
           
            Set Fields = Nothing
            Set objMessage = Nothing
            Set objConfig = Nothing
        End If
    End Sub
   
    Private Sub Class_Initialize()
        EMAIL_LIST_FILE = "email.txt"
        cdoSendUsingMethod        = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing"
        cdoSendUsingPort          = 2
        cdoSMTPServer             = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver"
        cdoSMTPServerPort         = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport"
        cdoSMTPConnectionTimeout  = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout"
        cdoSMTPAuthenticate       = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate"
        cdoBasic                  = 1
        cdoSendUserName           = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername"
        cdoSendPassword           = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword"
    End Sub  

    Private Function GetAddresses()
        Dim arrResult
        Dim FSO, FileHandle
        Dim sFilePath
        Dim sLine, sFileContent
       
        sFilePath = Request.ServerVariables("APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH") & EMAIL_LIST_FILE
       
        ' Open the file
        Set FSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
       
        If FSO.FileExists(sFilePath) Then
            Set FileHandle = FSO.OpenTextFile(sFilePath, 1, false, 0)

            ' Read a line
            sLine = Trim(FileHandle.readLine)
            sFileContent = sLine
            ' Read until we reach the end of the file
                 While Not(FileHandle.atEndOfStream)
                     ' read another line
                     sLine = Trim(FileHandle.readLine)
                     sFileContent = sFileContent & "," & sLine
                 Wend
                
                 ' Split the addresses into an array
                 If Len(sFileContent) > 0 Then
                     arrResult = Split(sFileContent, ",")
                 End If
             Else
                 Response.Write("Email file not found: " & EMAIL_LIST_FILE)
             End If    
             
             ' Return the array
        GetAddresses = arrResult
    End Function
End Class

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The body is a html file that is generated in another script. The sending works fine most of the times but as soon as the body gets over a certain size (I think its around 10KB) the following error message is displayed:

error '80040211'
/include/Email.asp, line 55

Line 55 is the line with .Send  

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So my question is, is there a maximum message size and what can I do to make it send large messages.

-TCM-

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2005-10-05 at 12:19:26ID21585042
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Answers

 

by: alorentzPosted on 2005-10-05 at 12:31:52ID: 15024882

>>is there a maximum message size and what can I do to make it send large messages.

Not really...

The limits are set up in SMTP on the server.  You can set to whatever you want.

 

by: TheClickMasterPosted on 2005-10-05 at 12:35:13ID: 15024914

Oh and ignore the lines

part = 0
While part < totalparts
Wend

That was some testing stuff but isnt sposed to be there.

 

by: TheClickMasterPosted on 2005-10-05 at 12:36:00ID: 15024921

The maximum size on the server is set to 6 MB and I can send 6 MB emails with outlook.

 

by: alorentzPosted on 2005-10-05 at 12:39:10ID: 15024955

>>I can send 6 MB emails with outlook.

Is Outlook using the web server to send email?

 

by: TheClickMasterPosted on 2005-10-05 at 12:41:16ID: 15024973

Yes, both outlook and the webserver use the same smtp server to send emails.

 

by: alorentzPosted on 2005-10-05 at 12:45:40ID: 15025006

Doesn't sound like size issue then, but more along the lines of attachments....are there attachments?

 

by: TheClickMasterPosted on 2005-10-05 at 12:52:26ID: 15025063

No. Only the body. I have spent the whole afternoon trying to find information about this. Looks like there is some kind of limit set by the CDO.

 

by: alorentzPosted on 2005-10-05 at 13:03:27ID: 15025162

May be a limitation of HTMLBody.  There is a 1022 character limit.  Try TextBody

 

by: alorentzPosted on 2005-10-05 at 13:10:21ID: 15025201

Try this:
 
  .HTMLBody = p_sContent
  .Update  '<-----------------------------ADD THIS
                         .Send      

 

by: TheClickMasterPosted on 2005-10-05 at 13:40:31ID: 15025413

TextBody gives the exact same error message.

Update displays this little message: Object doesn't support this property or method: 'Update'

So if there is a 1022 character limit, how can I send more then 1022 characters in one message? Is there a way to divide a message into multiple parts?

 

by: TheClickMasterPosted on 2005-10-05 at 13:41:50ID: 15025429

There must be someone who already went through all this and found a solution. Increasing points to 500 ;)

 

by: alorentzPosted on 2005-10-05 at 13:59:01ID: 15025600

As you said, there's not much online about this...and I think it's a setting on your server.  Maybe someone will know..but doubtful.  Just have to play with the settings.

 

by: marc_nivensPosted on 2005-10-05 at 19:22:58ID: 15027653

This is not really a CDO limit but an SMTP limit (RFC limit actually).  The body of the message probably contains bare line feeds.  What that means is any time a new line is requested, the body only contains the Line Feed character.  SMTP expects a Carriage Return-Line Feed, not just Line Feed.  Without this the text never wraps and overruns the buffer allowed by SMTP.   You could load p_sContent into a variable, parse the variable replacing chr(10) with chr(13) & chr(10).  This should correct any bare line feeds, and now you can just set .HTMLBody to the variable.

 

by: WMIFPosted on 2005-10-06 at 02:00:45ID: 15028916

from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc821.txt
>            text line
>
>               The maximum total length of a text line including the
>               <CRLF> is 1000 characters (but not counting the leading
>               dot duplicated for transparency).

marc_nivens' suggestion should take care of most emails.  however if you have sections of text such as a long text field from a db, that could exceed the 1000 character limit without any cr or lf in between.  you would need to insert a vbcrlf every 1000 characters.

 

by: TheClickMasterPosted on 2005-10-06 at 07:48:33ID: 15030992

Can't believe I wasted so many hours on this :D

Thanks a lot I totally forgot about the 1000 some characters per line limit and yeah the script was putting the whole HTML code on a single line...

Added a lot of CRLF and it works perfectly now.

Thanks to everyone.

-TCM-

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