IIS CDONTS problem

Is your smtp service running?
Try to register cdonts.dll manually yourself by doing the following in Start->Run.
    regsvr c:\...\cdonts.dll


hongjun

where is cdonts.dll located?

Try searching for it. I've forgotten it.

hongjun

It can't be found on my hard drive!!! Can you send yours to me?? email: sameenj@yahoo.com

cdonts is on windows servers only..

search for the file from the SERVER harddisk.

hongjun

My Computer is the server at the same time, I have IIS on it, the problem is that the CDONTS is not there and that is why I cannot use the CDONTS component in my ASP pages. I need the file, can anyone send it to me? or tell me how to install it on my system? Is reinstalling the IIS going to install it?

Even if someone sent you the file, I don't know that will solve your problem. I think that there are some additional necessary files. Take a look at MS Knowledgebase for details.

BTW, what operating system are you running?

Fritz the Blank

Windows XP with IIS 5.1

CDONTS does not come with Windows XP. Try using Persits free ASPEmail available for free at www.aspemail.com. It works fine with XP, and I have found it to be much more reliable than CDO/CDONTS.

Fritz the Blank

don't use CDONTS, use CDO ~ it's the latest and greatest version.  they replaced CDONTS with CDO on Windows 2000, but kept CDONTS for backwards compatability.. I guess they removed it for XP.

worx ASP 3.0 book has a good section on CDO

Cheers

Which type of XP you are using? Professional?Home?

Professional
Anyway to get CDO or CDONTS on my machine?

Have you install the SMTP service to your machine?

Yes, I did, the CDONTS component is simply not there... I also tried reinstalling the IIS, but had no luck

Not to repeat myself, but CDONTS does not come with XP, even if you install IIS.

Either use CDO or the Persits ASPeMail that I mentioned above.

Fritz the Blank

How can I use CDO then?
Can you send me a sample code?
Thanks.

How do I create an instance of the object?
set bla=server.createobject("CDO.NewMail") ???

<%
Set objMessage = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
objMessage.To = strToAddress
objMessage.From = strFromAddress
objMessage.Subject = "Your subject goes here..."
objMessage.TextBody = "This is your message text."
objMessage.Send
Set objMessage = Nothing  
%>

Hello Fritz,<br>
Thanks for your reply, this is actually what I needed. However when I try to send an email using the code you provided I get the following error. Note that I replaced the .From and .To properties with valid values:
Technical Information (for support personnel)

Error Type:
CDO.Message.1 (0x80040220)
The "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid.
/test.asp, line 7


Browser Type:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
I looked up the MSDN documentation and the component has no SendUsing property! so I am confused, may be you know what is wrong?!?!?!

Please note that line 7 is the place where the .send method gets invoked...

Now I know this is for Win 2K, but I always include this in my global.asa file when I'm trying to do CDO using ASP.

<!-- METADATA type="typelib" name="CDO for Windows 2000 Type Library" uuid="CD000000-8B95-11D1-82DB-00C04FB1625D" -->

I could be wrong, but I think you need that when you try to use CDO ~ it creates the reference to the dll.

Hope that helps

Here is another example I found with the configuration code. You'll need to change the SMTP service to match yours.

DIM iMsg, Flds, iConf

Set iMsg = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
Set iConf = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration")
Set Flds = iConf.Fields

Flds(cdoSendUsingMethod) = cdoSendUsingPort
Flds(cdoSMTPServer) = "127.0.0.1"
Flds(cdoSMTPServerPort) = 25
Flds(cdoSMTPAuthenticate) = cdoAnonymous ' 0
Flds.Update

With iMsg
   Set .Configuration = iConf
   .To = "paul@gregoire.org"
   .From = sFrom
   .Sender = "form@mydomain.com"
   .Subject = "Form Output"
   .TextBody = "" & sBody & ""
   .Send
End With
%>