Attention Bob Flynn

Report · May 07, 2008

Mr. Flynn,
I am trying to use your form to email script from chapter 5. The code is just the same as the downloaded code but I am not getting it to work. Murrary pointed out an error and I fixed that but now I am getting a different error:

Cannot modify or delete an object that was added using the COM+ Admin SDK
acg/messageSent.asp, line 14

Line 14 is:

cdoMessage.Send

The entire ASP code is attached. I will appreciate your help as I really want to use this function in my scripts.

Thank you,
Charles

Report · May 12, 2008

Charles67,

Can you tell me about your development environment? Where are you running your code? Is it on a local development installation of IIS?

I googled your error and found indications that it could be something as simple as Yahoo not allowing you to use it as a mail relay form your server.

Other posts related to the error indicate possible issues with IIS. I'm afraid I can't be much help in either of those areas.

I believe the code itself to be valid. I'll be happy to post a correction if someone else can identify one.

Bob Flynn

Report · May 14, 2008

Mr. Flynn,
I hope you are doing well. I am also having some issues getting the mail to send from MAMP server. I am using PHP. Since I am PHP dumb I am sure it is something I am doing 🙂 . I was following the example on page 144 in DWCS3 with ASP, Coldfusion, and PHP about editing the PHP.ini file and did not quite understand where my email information went. I pasted the information below. Any assistance can offer would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeremy Burchfield

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = localhost

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =

Report · May 19, 2008

Hi Jeremy,

I don't think the problem is a PHP problem, though I could be wrong. My guess is that those are either not the correct parameters for connecting to Gmail. As stated in the note on p. 137, there are a lot of variables in how security is set up with different ISPs and email providers. It is beyond the scope of the book to go too far into that and you shouldn't worry too much about it in a local test install.

Having said that, if someone else on the list has set up a connection from their PHP install to send mail through their Gmail accounts, please chime in and educate us both.

I apologize that I do not have the time to look more deeply into this.

Regards,

Bob