email script authentication protection

[Guest]

DW CS3 - ACCESS - ASP VBSCRIPT

I've been trying to get variations of email scripts to work. Since the SMTP server in IIS was discontinued in Vista, I cannot test locally.  The scripts will run locally using authentication, but then removing authentication and uploading results in 500 errors.  I found that my webhost requires authentication to run email scripts.  So my question is, how can these scripts be protected with authentication?  Is there a way to encrypt sensitive information?  Also, any opinion on a decent "forgot password" script for classic ASP?

[bregent]

>Is there a way to encrypt sensitive information?

I'm not sure I follow you. Any email credentials you enter in the script are executed on the server, not sent to the client.  The only way to get the credentials would be to hack your ftp account, but if they do that, they already have your credentials

[Guest]

Exactly.  My webhost said they've seen scripts hacked occasionally - not an everyday occurrence, but it does happen.  They said as long as I properly close the script, I should be fairly safe.  Since I seem to be stuck in newbie mode, I fear making fatal mistakes! 

Okay, then..... I guess I won't worry too much about it and move forward. Thanks