I am sending (successfully) email using CDO within my ASP application, as follows:

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    myMail.HTMLBody = eText

    with myMail
        .Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
        .Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "smtp.xxxxx.com"
        .Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
        .Configuration.Fields.Update
    end with

    myMail.Send

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This works on my development server, and xxxxx is my domain name.

The question is:

My client will view the application on my development server. Can I make it so that the email will originate with them? (i.e. [email protected] where cccccc is their domain).

I realise that when the application is transferred to their server, it will possible to change the smtpserver setting to smtp.ccccc.com, but at this development stage I want to keep the application on my development server but still have the emails originate with them.

Can this be done?

Thanks.

As long as you can hit their SMTP box from your Dev Server, yes you should be able to do this. If their mail server is setup correctly though, you will not only need to change the server name but also provide a valid email account that exists on their box to send the email. Otherwise, if you could have anything in the From field, their mail server would be setup as an Open Relay which means anyone could use it to Spam through.

hth.

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"As long as you can hit their SMTP box from your Dev Server"

Please can you tell me what you mean by this?

Also, what do you mean by "change the server name"?

Thanks.

By "hit their SMTP Server" I mean that your dev box must have a connection to the internet to be able to access a remote SMTP server. By changing the server name I mean that if in code your dev SMTP server is setup as

mail.development.com

you will need to change it to

mail.clientsdomain.com

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From what you are saying, it seems I could write an application that sits on my dev box and sends any email anywhere I like that comes from some other company's account (assuming I know at least one valid address of that company, e.g. info@). Surely I ought not to be able to do this, as I could reak havoc for that company!!! Have I misunderstood something?

Conceivably, you can. What it depends on is if the SMTP server you are trying to send email through requires authentication or not. Some SMTP servers will allow you to send email to all of the accounts contained within itself without requiring authentication, however, when you try to pass an email to another domain (you are using this SMTP box as a relay at this point) it will require you to authenticate.

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Hei!
BananaJim, can you please tell me how to send cdo mail from my asp-app using winxp? Is the code you have posted all there is? Thank you for any help.

Mvh Beginning ASP
grstad :~)



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