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ASP E-mail how-to
Requirements
You will need the following information.
- An HTML or text editor
- an FTP client
What is it?
ASP E-mail is an active server component for
sending e-mail messages using an external SMTP server
in an ASP or VB environment.
Related Topics
Official Web Site (www.aspemail.com)
Step 1: Determine your platform.
UNIX: If your site is hosted on the UNIX platform,
you will need to use a CGI script such as the formmail.pl
script. Please see http://www.nethere.com/support/webhosting/formmail.
Win 2000: If your site is hosted on the 2000
platform, you will need to use the form provided by
FrontPage which uses "web bots" or alternately
ASP E-mail. For ASP E-mail, please proceed to
Step 2.
Step 2: Copy the HTML below and paste
it into a new document in your editor.
*Note this is
only a sample form! Your form may be much more complex.
Simply use this as a starting point and customize your
form to your needs.
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Title Here</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<form method=post action="SendMail.asp">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Your
Subject Here">
First Name<br>
<input type="text" name="first"><br>
Last Name<br>
<input type="text" name="last">
<br>
E-mail Address<br>
<input type="text" name="email">
<br>
Comments:
<br>
<textarea name="comments"></textarea>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
<input type="reset" name="clear" value="Clear
it">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Step 3: Edit the form to match your
preferences and variables and save your new HTML page.
For this example, we have saved this page as form.html
Step 4: Copy the ASP code below and
paste it into a new document in your editor.
*Note this
is only a sample form! Your form may be much more complex.
Simply use this as a starting point and customize your
form to your needs. The
parts in RED are really the only parts that are necessary/recommended
for your ASP to work with this script.
<%
Set Mail = Server.CreateObject("Persits.MailSender")
Mail.Host = "mailx.nethere.net"
strBody = strBody & "First Name: " & Request("first") & chr(13) & chr(10)
strBody
= strBody & "Last Name: " & Request("last") & chr(13) & chr(10)
strBody
= strBody & "Email Address: " & Request("email") & chr(13) & chr(10)
strBody
= strBody & " " & chr(13) & chr(10)
strBody
= strBody & "Comments: " & Request("comments") & chr(13) & chr(10)
Mail.From
= Request("email")
Mail.FromName = Request("email")
Mail.AddAddress "webhosting@nethere.com", "Web
Hosting"
Mail.AddCC "webhosting2@nethere.com"
Mail.AddBcc "webhosting3@nethere.com"
Mail.Subject
= Request("subject")
Mail.Body = strBody
On Error Resume Next
Mail.Send
If Err <> 0 Then
Response.Write "An error
occurred: " & Err.Description
End If
%>
<html>
<head>
<title>AspEmail Demo</title>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5;URL=http://www.nethere.net" />
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
Thank you for your comments!<br>
You will be redirected back to our home page in
5 seconds.
</body>
</html>
Step 5: Edit the ASP to match
the variables in your own form and save you new ASP
page. For this example, the ASP page was saved
as SendMail.asp.
The ASP is collecting the following variables from
the form.html page: “first”, “last”, “email”, “comments”. It
is formatting the variables into an e-mail with the
subject "Your Subject Here" and sending it
to webhosting@nethere.com,
copying it to webhosting2@nethere.com,
and blind copying it to webhosting3@nethere.com.
If you are still having trouble with ASP E-mail, please
give us a call at 1-888-638-4373 or write to us
at webhosting@nethere.com.
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