> 3) CDONTs is definately installed and registered on my machine + my

> 4) SMTP service is running on my machine + my webhost.

"owen" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create a web page in ASP where the user enters their name
and
> email address, and when they submit the form, an email is automatically
sent
> to them. I am using CDONTs to try and acheive this. Right now I'm just
> testing with my own email address in the "To" property.
>
> The problem: The email does not get sent.
>
> When tested on my local machine, no email is sent whatsoever. The problem
> is slightly different when I tried it on the internet: The test email
wasnt
> sent, but I got an "Undeliverable mail" email sent to my "From" address.
>
> I have checked the following already:
> 1) I am definately using a VALID "From" and "To" address. (the "To" is my
> own email address, the "From" is something like "mail@mydomain.co.uk"
where
> mydomain is my website domain name).
> 2) The "From" and "To" addresses are different to each other.
> 3) CDONTs is definately installed and registered on my machine + my
webhost.
> 4) SMTP service is running on my machine + my webhost.
> 5) There is nothing fancy in the "Body" property, just plain text.
>
> This seems to be a fairly common problem, but I cannot find a definitive
> answer. I would really appreciate a simple answer to get this working, or
> alternatively a link to some kind of FAQ page for CDONTs problems.
>
> Thanks!
> Owen
>
> PS. would appreciate replies cc'd via email :o)
> owen.southwood@mantix.com
>
>

"Adrian Forbes [ASP MVP]" <sorry@noemail.zzz> wrote in message
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> > 3) CDONTs is definately installed and registered on my machine + my
> webhost.
>
> CDONTS is just a wrapper object that creates files in the Pickup folder of
> your server. It will never fail and doesn't actually send e-mail
>
> > 4) SMTP service is running on my machine + my webhost.
>
> It is the SMTP service that sends the mail so yours probably isn't
correctly
> configured. Have you tried trying to send mail through your SMTP service
> using, say Outlook or Outlook Express?
>

"Adrian Forbes [ASP MVP]" <sorry@noemail.zzz> wrote in message
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> > 3) CDONTs is definately installed and registered on my machine + my
> webhost.
>
> CDONTS is just a wrapper object that creates files in the Pickup folder of
> your server. It will never fail and doesn't actually send e-mail

"owen" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> OK so where is this pickup folder (where can I find out?) so I can check
the
> mails are actually sitting there.
>
> I think the problem is that CDONTS' emails are "sitting" in the pickup
> folder and never being "pushed" out by SMTP.