Sending emails using CDO without Exchange.....

[Inam Ul Haq]

Hi all,

I'm trying to send emails from the IIS server directly using CDO without
involving exchange. I'm trying it from two different ways.
1. I wrot a few lines of VBScript on my ASP page to send emails. The page
is executed fine. But the email never gets to the destination. I'm using
local IIS on my machine. Our corporate mail sever is different. Am I doing
right??? I doubt that how that mail address gets resolved? Can I send emails
using my local machines IIS? Do I need to configure the IIS?

2. I want to incorporate the same funtionality into my Java component (written
using VJ++ and runs under MTS). I do a com wrapper for CDONTS. I create the
object. All the properties set methods go ok. But when I try to execute "send(...)"
mehtod I get the following run time exception: "ComFailException", with the
message: "Class not registered".
My sample code goes below:

Variant varFrom = null;
Variant varTo = null;
Variant varSubject = null;
Variant varMsgBody = null;
Variant varImportance = null;

varFrom = new Variant(edtFrom.getText());
varTo = new Variant(edtTo.getText());
varSubject = new Variant(edtSubject.getText());
varMsgBody = new Variant(edtBody.getText());
varImportance = new Variant((int)CdoImportance.CdoLow);

INewMail mail = (INewMail)new NewMail();

//I've tried setting all the properties explicitly.
//The program runs fine with them. It only fails
//on "send(...)" method.
/*
mail.setMailFormat(CdoMailFormats.CdoMailFormatText);
mail.setFrom("inam@thenetplus.com");
mail.setTo("inam@thenetplus.com");
mail.setCc ("vnguyen@thenetplus.com");
mail.setBcc("bcc");
mail.setSubject("from SMTP");
mail.setBodyFormat(CdoBodyFormats.CdoBodyFormatText);
mail.setBody (varMsgBody);
*/

//The program fails at this pline:
mail.Send(varFrom, varTo, varSubject, varMsgBody, varImportance);


What wrong I'm doing? I'll appreciate any ideas.

Inam.

[Eric S. Lockshine]

"Inam Ul Haq" <haqinam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm trying to send emails from the IIS server directly using CDO without
>involving exchange. I'm trying it from two different ways.
>1. I wrot a few lines of VBScript on my ASP page to send emails. The page
>is executed fine. But the email never gets to the destination. I'm using
>local IIS on my machine. Our corporate mail sever is different. Am I doing
>right??? I doubt that how that mail address gets resolved? Can I send emails
>using my local machines IIS? Do I need to configure the IIS?
>
>2. I want to incorporate the same funtionality into my Java component (written
>using VJ++ and runs under MTS). I do a com wrapper for CDONTS. I create
the
>object. All the properties set methods go ok. But when I try to execute
"send(...)"
>mehtod I get the following run time exception: "ComFailException", with
the
>message: "Class not registered".
>My sample code goes below:
>
>Variant varFrom = null;
>Variant varTo = null;
>Variant varSubject = null;
>Variant varMsgBody = null;
>Variant varImportance = null;
>
>varFrom = new Variant(edtFrom.getText());
>varTo = new Variant(edtTo.getText());
>varSubject = new Variant(edtSubject.getText());
>varMsgBody = new Variant(edtBody.getText());
>varImportance = new Variant((int)CdoImportance.CdoLow);
>
>INewMail mail = (INewMail)new NewMail();
>
>//I've tried setting all the properties explicitly.
>//The program runs fine with them. It only fails
>//on "send(...)" method.
>/*
>mail.setMailFormat(CdoMailFormats.CdoMailFormatText);
>mail.setFrom("inam@thenetplus.com");
>mail.setTo("inam@thenetplus.com");
>mail.setCc ("vnguyen@thenetplus.com");
>mail.setBcc("bcc");
>mail.setSubject("from SMTP");
>mail.setBodyFormat(CdoBodyFormats.CdoBodyFormatText);
>mail.setBody (varMsgBody);
>*/
>
>//The program fails at this pline:
>mail.Send(varFrom, varTo, varSubject, varMsgBody, varImportance);
>
>
>What wrong I'm doing? I'll appreciate any ideas.
>
>Inam.

First things first, on the IIS machine you MUST install SMTP and configure
it properly. Once that is accomplished, sending an email from a web page
will be easy. Look at the following article on the microsoft web site:Q189945