Email Systems

In this article we demonstrate how to generate and send emails with ASP using CDOSYS - Microsoft's improved interface for SMTP email. You will learn how to send text and html emails, emails with attachments, use a remote server, load recipients from a database, set the priority / importance of an email and request a read/return receipt....
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Developers who are new to POP3 as well as seasoned POP3 developers will find this article indispensable. Basic to advanced topics are covered. This article offers tips, tricks and secrets that developers of all levels can benefit from. What you will learn from this brief article will save you weeks or more of learning, research and development. Read this article and have a basic, reliable POP3 application up and running within an hour. Sample code and applications included....
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Assuming your flash IDE is open already let’s go ahead and get started. In this tutorial we’ll cover sending emails through flash using a server side script in ASP, PHP, or Perl we will cover all three. With this you can add email functionality to your flash website for endless possibilities. There are a few things to note here. It is a very wise choice to restrict some aspects of this application. Allowing users to decide where the email is going can lead to some serious headaches. By giving users that ability you open yourself to the user using it for anonymous emails, so be careful....
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If you use this code, with the changes suggested in the comments, you will be able to completely validate a submitted e-mail address. It checks for invalid characters, an invalid domain, and an invalid or missing MX record at the domain.

Learn how to email the contents of a form using the CDONTS component from ASP.

Before the sending of a mail to avoid a useless excess load on IIS, it is possible to use a simple function to verify that the email address is well formed. In a more pushed process we could be also brought to interrogate the smtp corresponding server to know if the address exists or not....
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Let's you add an user email account to windows 2003 pop3 service using script. The script is written in VBA 6 (You can use it in Visual basic 6, Excel, Access, ...), you can modify it for VB Script or VB.Net. Manage accounts locally or remotelly

If you are using a Windows 2000 / 2003 Server, or even XP Pro chances are that CDOSYS is your best bet for sending email from Active Server Pages. That is because CDOSYS is installed on all of them by default. Gone are the days of using CDONTS which was the old way of sending email from ASP. CDOSYS is it's replacement. That being said there are actually a lot of ways to configure and use CDOSYS. When I 1st started using CDOSYS I assumed the CDOSYS code I was using would work in any situation, but that is not the case. This is something most articles about CDOSYS do not mention so I am going to show you 3 different CDOSYS examples each sending email using a slightly different method....
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This shows the basics of sending email using CDONTS

The NewMail object gives you the ability to send a message within an ASP page with only few lines of code. This article will help you to understand different properties and methods of CDONTS.NewMail Object.

This is a basic code that allows you email form results using CDO on an NT / IIS server.

Short samples which lets you send an email from ASP or WSH, using several objects (CDONTS.NewMail, CDO.Message, Outlook.Application). You can send an email using IIS SMTP service, remote SMTP server or POP3/IMAP.

An article on how to validate user email addresses in no time using a simple VBScript function in ASP.

This article describes every step you need to know to send E-Mails using ASP pages.

The author writes "You know all those email you send using CDO or CDONTS? What happens to the ones that are addressed wrong or if the sender or recipient's address isn't even formatted correctly? This script will let you take a peek at the messages in the mailroot folders. This includes the ones that the SMTP service hasn't delivered yet and even those it's already given up on so you can see what's happening." Source code for the SMTP reader available for download....
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PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is an encryption program used for secure transmission of files and e-mails. This article describes the concepts of PGP, the installation and configuration of PGP Command Line, and the generation of PGP-encrypted e-mails using ASP....
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This code sample demonstrates how to validate an email address using regular expressions. It ensures that an email address is properly syntaxed and ends with a valid TLD (top level domain).

This code sample will show you how to send HTML-formatted email messages. The code is written using CDO for 2000, but there is a CDONTS version as well for those of you still running on NT4.

Here is an interesting article that explains how to help the authorities in tracking down people who cause sites to send unwanted email to others by subscribing them to one's newsletter or applying for site membership.

A Step-by-step tutorial showing you how to create a feedback form using different email systems. Supports CDONTS, JMail, ASPEmail and ASPMail, but more can be added.