Please help if you can...



This is partly ASP related so...



I am trying to send e-mail from an ASP page using CDONTS. I am trying it 

on two different NT servers, both running IIS 4. Neither server had the 

Microsoft SMTP Server installed from Option Pack 4, so I installed it on 

both machines. One machine works great, the ASP page sends the e-mail just 

fine. On the other, the MS SMTP server just queues the messages. It gives 

an .rtr file that says "server received winsock error connection timed 

out.



This is the same ASP code running on both machines. It should be noted 

that the non-working machine has a listserv SMTP running on it also. The 

MS SMTP server gave errors when on the default port 25 so I moved it to 

26. Now it doesn't show the error box but it just queues the mail going 

out.



Any ideas?



Thank you!



Steve

steven.reule@d...

One problem may be having two SMTP services on one machine. The other may 

be related to your MS SMTP settings.



For the latter, check out this article for good info on coding for CDONTS 

and setting up your Microsoft SMTP service:



http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period99/asp9951.htm



As for other things... I'm not sure how CDONTS will work on a non-standard 

port (never tried), but I'd think your SMTP service wouldn't be able to 

communicate effectively with the outside world.



CDONTS won't communicate with anything but the Microsoft SMTP service (a 

hideous limitation) - something I discovered last night on my server. 

Probably the best solution is to get a different SMTP component to send e-

mail - there's lots of them out there that work with any (i.e. local or 

remote) SMTP services. Do a search on http://www.aspin.com for SMTP and 

you'll find them - quite a few are free, too. I use IP*Works from 

nSoftware (http://www.nsoftware.com), which costs a few hundred bucks, but 

offers quite a bit more than SMTP (it offers just about everything IP).



Good luck!





 - Brian

 - brian@m...



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Do you have Exchange set up on the machine that is not working.  Exchange

modifies the default pickup folder which could be causing you some of the

problems.



-----Original Message-----

From: Steven Reule [mailto:Steven.Reule@d...]

Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 11:41 AM

To: ASP Web HowTo

Subject: [asp_web_howto] ASP, CDONTS, and mail







Please help if you can...



This is partly ASP related so...



I am trying to send e-mail from an ASP page using CDONTS. I am trying it on

two different NT servers, both running IIS 4. Neither server had the

Microsoft SMTP Server installed from Option Pack 4, so I installed it on

both machines. One machine works great, the ASP page sends the e-mail just

fine. On the other, the MS SMTP server just queues the messages. It gives an

.rtr file that says "server received winsock error connection timed out.



This is the same ASP code running on both machines. It should be noted that

the non-working machine has a listserv SMTP running on it also. The MS SMTP

server gave errors when on the default port 25 so I moved it to 26. Now it

doesn't show the error box but it just queues the mail going out.



Any ideas?



Thank you!



Steve

steven.reule@d...