Classic ASP Sending Email with SMTP Authentication

Question

We inherited the classic ASP site from a design agency that simply wanted us to search and replace for changing SMTP hosts. No problem, we are a PHP store, but we can turn our hands into most things.

In a further investigation, it was discovered that we needed to authenticate with the new SMTP server.

A little googling makes us believe that it uses ASPMail 4, and according to the docs, it does not perform authentication.

http://www.serverobjects.com/comp/Aspmail4.htm

We simply sent “SMTPsvg.Mailer” to Google from this call:

Set Mailer = Server.CreateObject("SMTPsvg.Mailer") 

Am I assuming that the above is ASPMail 4 and APSMAil does not perform authentication?

What can I use to authenticate with the SMTP server if I need to replace Aspmail?

Answer 1

As said, use CDO.

 set config = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration") sch = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/" with config.Fields .item(sch & "sendusing") = 2 ' cdoSendUsingPort .item(sch & "smtpserver") = application("smtpserver") .item(sch & "smtpserverport") = application("smtpserverport") .item(sch & "smtpauthenticate") = 1 'basic auth .item(sch & "sendusername") = application("sendusername") .item(sch & "sendpassword") = application("sendpassword") .update end with with CreateObject("CDO.Message") .configuration = config .to = ... .from = ... .subject = .... .HTMLBody = .... call .send() end with 

Documents about each field of the configuration object can be found here !

Answer 2

Yes. Why don't you upgrade to CDO? This article may help.

How to send an email with a CDO?

Answer 3

Check if the hosting provider supports the .NET Framework 2.0 (most of them), if so rename the .asp file to .aspx, delete the code that sends the email, and write a simple code:

http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/3.8.aspx

Hi

Thomas

Answer 4

As per the docs here, ASPMail 4.x just doesn't support authentication. It looks like you will have to switch to another COM-based SMTP component.