Hello Siegfried,



I purchased your book, ?Professional CDO Programming? and it has helped me 

out tremendously.  However, I still have just one question to ask you 

regarding CDO version 1.21.  I have written an email program in ASP using 

CDO to send email to users in our database who wish to receive email.  We 

would now like to send HTML email.  However, I read on Microsoft?s website 

that only text email can be sent using CDO and not HTML.  Is this true?  

Microsoft says that CDO 1.21 uses MAPI version 1.0 to send email.  MAPI 

1.0 does not reliably support the creation of HTML-formatted messages.  So 

Microsoft recommends using alternative solutions using SMTP.  



We are using a small business server with IIS 4.0 and Exchange Server 5.5 

loaded on it.  Our network administrator insists that we cannot configure 

IIS to use SMTP on a server, which also has Exchange loaded on it.  But I 

read in various posts on this site that it is possible to configure IIS to 

use SMTP on a machine, which has Exchange loaded on it.  In your 

professional opinion, is this something that can or cannot be done?



Thank you,



Binu Mathew