Question

"SendUsing" error with CDO / ASP code

Asked by: chumplet

I have an older website that I've moved from a Windows 2000 Server to a newer Windows 2003 Server.  Since that move, none of my "send me an email" forms are working.  It appears to be an issue with the older CDONTS dll vs. whatever Win2k3 is using now.  Unfortunately, I'm really not a developer or code guy :(  I didn't write the SendMail code for this page either.

Here's the code as it stands right now.  Any ideas??

Thanks,

Chumplet

<%
 
	if Request.Querystring("isSubmitted") = "yes" then
 
 
		Dim requesttype, name, email, comments
 
		Dim objCDO
		
		Quote=chr(34)
 
 
		requesttype = Request.Querystring("requesttype")
		
		name = Request.Querystring("Name")
		
		email = Request.Querystring("EmailAddress")
		
		comments = Request.Querystring("Comments")
 
 
		Set objCDO = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
 
 
		objCDO.From = "" & email
 
		If requesttype = "technical" then
			objCDO.To = "myemail@domain.com"
		Else
			objCDO.To = "myotheremail@domain.com"
		End If
 
		objCDO.Subject = "Comments from " & name & " (" & email & ")"
 
		dim strHtmlBody 
		strHtmlBody = "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE>" & vbcrlf
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<style type=" & Quote & "text/css" & Quote & ">p {font-family: arial;	font-size: 14px;	color: #000000;	line-height: 14px;}</STYLE>" & vbcrlf
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "</HEAD>" & vbcrlf
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<body><p><b>Name:  </b><br>" & name
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<br><br>"
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<b>Email: </b><br>" & email
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<br><br>"
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<b>Comments: </b><br>" & comments 
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "</p></body></html>"
		objCDO.HTMLBody = strHtmlBody
 
		objCDO.Send
 
		ConfirmMsg = "Your comments have been sent.  Thank you."
 
	end if
 
%>

                                  
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Asked On
2008-03-12 at 16:18:05ID23237070
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"SendUsing" configuration is invalid

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Active Server Pages (ASP)

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Microsoft IIS Web Server

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Answers

 

by: slamhoundPosted on 2008-03-12 at 17:50:14ID: 21112319

Are you getting any error messages?
How is the code failing?
Have you checked with the server administrator to make sure you have permissions to send the email?
Has your mail server changed at all?

 

by: mgfranzPosted on 2008-03-12 at 21:59:36ID: 21113459

CDONTS is no longer supported by Win2003.  It is possible to make it work on 2003 but it's better to just upgrade to CDOSYS.

 

by: chumpletPosted on 2008-03-13 at 08:46:38ID: 21117399

Ok.... so I should upgrade to CDOSYS.  How can I make the (above) code work with CDOSYS instead?

By the way, my web server *is* an SMTP server as well.

 

by: mgfranzPosted on 2008-03-13 at 09:42:58ID: 21118087

You can try sending a simple message like this;

Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
objMessage.Subject = "Example CDO Message"
objMessage.From = "me@my.com"
objMessage.To = "me@yahoo.com"
objMessage.TextBody = "This is some sample message text."
objMessage.Send


Here's what I use for one of my pages;

 Dim objCDO
 
  Set objCDO = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
 
       With objCDO
            .To       = "Mark G. Franz <mgfranz@xyz.com>"
            .From     = "whoever@yahoo.com"
               .Subject  = "Central Error Handler"
                         
  strBody = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"">" & vbCrLf _
& "<html>" & vbCrLf _
            & "<head>" & vbCrLf _
            & " <title></title>" & vbCrLf _
            & " <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=""text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"">" & vbCrLf _
            & "</head>" & vbCrLf _
            & "<body bgcolor=""#ffffff"" style=""font-family : verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color : #000000;"">" & vbCrLf _            
            & ' More html code here
            & "</body>" & vbCrLf _
            & "</html>" & vbCrLf _
            & vbCrLf  ' there has to be an additional <cr> here or you get an error  
              .HtmlBody = strBody
              .Send
      End With
      Set objCDO = Nothing
 %>

There is a good writeup on CDO here, http://www.paulsadowski.com/WSH/cdo.htm

 

by: chumpletPosted on 2008-03-13 at 10:17:06ID: 21118469

So... using the recommended code in the link you gave, I've rewritten my SendMail page.  Unfortunately, I'm still getting the error:

     CDO.Message.1 error '80040220'

     The "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid.

     /contact_test.asp, line 48

Any ideas?  I'm at a loss.

<%
 
	if Request.Querystring("isSubmitted") = "yes" then
 
 
		Dim requesttype, name, email, comments
 
		Dim objMessage
		
		Quote=chr(34)
 
 
		requesttype = Request.Querystring("requesttype")
		
		name = Request.Querystring("Name")
		
		email = Request.Querystring("EmailAddress")
		
		comments = Request.Querystring("Comments")
 
 
		Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
 
 
		objMessage.From = "" & email
 
		If requesttype = "technical" then
			objMessage.To = "myemail@domain.com"
		Else
			objMessage.To = "myotheremail@domain.com"
		End If
 
 
		objMessage.Subject = "Comments from " & name & " (" & email & ")"
 
		dim strHtmlBody 
		strHtmlBody = "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE>" & vbcrlf
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<style type=" & Quote & "text/css" & Quote & ">p {font-family: arial;	font-size: 14px;	color: #000000;	line-height: 14px;}</STYLE>" & vbcrlf
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "</HEAD>" & vbcrlf
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<body><p><b>Name:  </b><br>" & name
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<br><br>"
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<b>Email: </b><br>" & email
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<br><br>"
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<b>Comments: </b><br>" & comments 
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "</p></body></html>"
		objMessage.HTMLBody = strHtmlBody
 
		objMessage.Send
 
		ConfirmMsg = "Your comments have been sent.  Thank you."
 
	end if
 
%>

                                              
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by: mgfranzPosted on 2008-03-13 at 10:49:19ID: 21118820

Did anything on the SMTP server change?  If it has enabled email blocking or a spam protector it may not send mail.

Try this little test script on a blank.asp page;

<%
Dim ObjSendMail
      Set ObjSendMail = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
     
      'This section provides the configuration information for the remote SMTP server.
     
      ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 'Send the message using the network (SMTP over the network).
      ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "your smtp server address"
      ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
      ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = False 'Use SSL for the connection (True or False)
      ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") = 60    
      ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 1 'basic (clear-text) authentication
      ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "your email address"      ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Update
     
      'End remote SMTP server configuration section==
     
      ObjSendMail.To = "your email address"
      ObjSendMail.Subject = "Test email"
      ObjSendMail.From = "a valid email address
      ObjSendMail.TextBody = "This is a test message"    
      ObjSendMail.Send    
      Set ObjSendMail = Nothing
     %>

 

by: chumpletPosted on 2008-03-13 at 12:29:50ID: 21119916

Thanks for your persistence, MGFranz!  I now have my sendmail pages working using CDOSYS!!!  Part of the issue was SMTP authentication on my server, but I'm working that out now.

Thanks again!  :)

Chumplet

p.s. -- I'm including the *final* code snippets below...

<%
 
	if Request.Querystring("isSubmitted") = "yes" then
 
 
		Dim requesttype, name, email, comments
 
		Dim ObjSendMail
		
		Quote=chr(34)
 
		Set objSendMail = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
 
		ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 'Send the message using the network (SMTP over the network).
      		ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "127.0.0.1"
      		ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
      		ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = False 'Use SSL for the connection (True or False)
      		ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") = 60    
      		ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 1 'basic (clear-text) authentication
      		ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "usernamegoeshere"
		objSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = "passwordgoeshere"   
      		ObjSendMail.Configuration.Fields.Update	
 
 
		requesttype = Request.Querystring("requesttype")
		
		name = Request.Querystring("Name")
		
		email = Request.Querystring("EmailAddress")
		
		comments = Request.Querystring("Comments")
 
 
 
		objSendMail.From = "" & email
 
		If requesttype = "technical" then
			objSendMail.To = "myEmail@domain.com"
		Else
			objSendMail.To = "myOtherEmail@domain.com"
		End If
 
 
		objSendMail.Subject = "Comments from " & name & " (" & email & ")"
 
		dim strHtmlBody 
		strHtmlBody = "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE>" & vbcrlf
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<style type=" & Quote & "text/css" & Quote & ">p {font-family: arial;	font-size: 14px;	color: #000000;	line-height: 14px;}</STYLE>" & vbcrlf
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "</HEAD>" & vbcrlf
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<body><p><b>Name:  </b><br>" & name
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<br><br>"
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<b>Email: </b><br>" & email
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<br><br>"
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "<b>Comments: </b><br>" & comments 
		strHtmlBody = strHtmlBody+ "</p></body></html>"
		objSendMail.HTMLBody = strHtmlBody
 
		objSendMail.Send
 
		Set ObjSendMail = Nothing
 
		ConfirmMsg = "Your comments have been sent.  Thank you."
 
	end if
 
%>

                                              
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by: mgfranzPosted on 2008-03-13 at 14:23:53ID: 21121027

Good deal!  I had a feeling there was a SMTP issue.

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