Hello,



Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.



I am new to emailing stuff using ASP. For the past few days I have been 

reading a lot on sending mail in this forum as well as some books and it 

is making me more confused than ever.



I need to write a webpage to send a email confirming a user's 

registration, that is all. Here are my questions:



1.  I read that i can use either the Outlook components or the CDONTS to 

send a mail. Either way, how do i connect to the SMTP server?



2.  When I am connected to the SMTP server, i think that i will be needing 

a UID and password. How do i do that?



3.  About the SMTP server, should i have my own SMTP server, or should i 

just connect to another existing third party SMTP server?



Is there a guide for me to read, because all of the sites i went to will 

only show me how to send an email but without the connection to smtp 

server and how to login into an account. 



Let me know if have the wrong concept



Thanks

really confused