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machrf
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June 30, 2009
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Email confirmation Page - preferrably ASP

  • June 30, 2009
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I have an ASP site and would like to send out a confirmatin email after registration. I see this is a common question with only partial answers being give on the web.

First I dont believe I have ASPMail or CDONTS, from what I know of VB I should be able to send an email with out those apps. (but that was years ago) I would like to send out an email where they click on a link and it comes back to me to confirm their email addy.

My site is ASP but I would not mind the code and references for ASP.NET and VB.NET.

I should think there is a site or book(s) that would give you information on this so I could flesh out the code from any samples.

In addition,

I am runing Server 2003.

I have MS SQL 2005, Dreamweaver CS4.

I have Access 2003 and 2007.

I gather ASPMail is a mail server? I have Argosoft.

What is CDONTS.

How easy would it be to pick up and learn PHP?

Thank You.

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bregent
Participating Frequently
July 1, 2009

ASPMail is an SMTP component that is installed on the server. Check with your host to see if it is installed. If not, no worries.

CDONTS is an SMTP library but has been replaced by CDOSYS which should be on all current Windows server platforms. Just search the web for sending email with CDOSYS and you'll find plenty of examples and sample code. It's very easy to use.  I'm not familiar with Argosoft but I imagine they have objects that can be used in ASP/ASP.Net. You'll need to check their docs if you want to go that route.

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machrfAuthor
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July 2, 2009

I can not believe it, with all the posts I have seen on CDONTS etc not one mentioned it was part of the server. I had the answer in front of my face the whole time?

Knowing how to code but not knowing the objects or in this case what make up CDONTS or CDOSYS, is there a book that tells about this? I dont care about all the code as much as I do about a sample code and good reference book on hitting a mail server.

I will check the net for sample code. Your right I came across tons of it. But any good reference material would be a great help.

Ok ok, I just did a search on CDONTS and CDOSYS and some better info came up. I found one sample code that is very robust.

But I will leave my question standing as I search, any great books on it to teach you the nitty gritty?

In any case, than you very much for telling me this.

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bregent
Participating Frequently
July 2, 2009

Forget about CDONTS as it is deprecated and replaced by CDOSYS. I don't have any book recommendations off hand, but a good place to start is at the MSDN site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa142523.aspx

If you still need specific examples, try searching the web for 'sending email via cdo'

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