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Using CDONTS to send email from ASP.

Important Update: CDONTS has been deprecated and is seldom used anymore. Basically, CDOSYS is it's replacement.
Read This Article Sending email using CDOSYS

Using the CDONTS component to send email from ASP pages.

With the arrival of IIS4 and the SMTP service of Option Pack 4 it is now fairly easy to send email from Active Server Pages.

The following three examples should give you the basic idea and get you started.

Using CDONTS to send a text based email message.

<%
 Dim MyBody
 Dim MyCDONTSMail
%>

<%
 Set MyCDONTSMail = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
 MyCDONTSMail.From= "somebody@nowhere.com"
 MyCDONTSMail.To= "nobody@nowhere.com"
 MyCDONTSMail.Subject="This is a Test"
 MyBody = "Thank you for ordering that stuff" & vbCrLf
 MyBody = MyBody & "We appreciate your business" & vbCrLf
 MyBody = MyBody & "Your stuff will arrive within 7 business days"
 MyCDONTSMail.Body= MyBody
 MyCDONTSMail.Send
 set MyCDONTSMail=nothing
%>

Using CDONTS to send a HTML based email message.

You'll get the general idea..notice how you have to add extra double quotes inside the HTML. You can use any valid HTML. Just make sure you link the images back to your webserver so that the recipient doesn't get a broken image. If the recipient's email program doesn't support HTML this is not always a good way to send email, but most do in my experience and if they don't they will still get the message... it will just look kinda strange.

<%
 Dim MyCDONTSMail2
 Dim HTML
 Set MyCDONTSMail2 = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
 HTML = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC""-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"">"
 HTML = HTML & "<html>"
 HTML = HTML & "<head>"
 HTML = HTML & "<title>Sending CDONTS Email Using HTML</title>"
 HTML = HTML & "</head>"
 HTML = HTML & "<body bgcolor=""FFFFFF"">"
 HTML = HTML & ""
 HTML = HTML & "Name Of Store "
 HTML = HTML & "Incoming Customer Order"
 HTML = HTML & "Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla"
 HTML = HTML & "</body>"
 HTML = HTML & "</html>"
 MyCDONTSMail2.From= "somebody@somewhere.com"
 MyCDONTSMail2.To="nobody@somewhere.com"
 MyCDONTSMail2.Subject="Incoming Customer Order"
 MyCDONTSMail2.BodyFormat=0
 MyCDONTSMail2.MailFormat=0
 MyCDONTSMail2.Body=HTML
 MyCDONTSMail2.Send
 set MyCDONTSMail2=nothing
%>

Using CDONTS to send a file attachment and have a Carbon Copy Recipient.

<%
 Dim MyBody2
 Dim MyCDONTSMail3
%>

<%
 Set MyCDONTSMail3 = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
 MyCDONTSMail3.From= "somebody@nowhere.com"
 MyCDONTSMail3.To= "nobody@nowhere.com"
 MyCDONTSMail3.Cc="nobody2@nowhere.com"
 MyCDONTSMail3.Subject="This is a Test"

 MyCDONTSMail3.AttachFile Server.MapPath("/somedirectory/bla.txt")
 ' or you could specify the path exactly if you knew it like below
 'MyCDONTSMail3.AttachFile ("C:\inetpub\wwwroot\somedirectory\bla.txt")

 MyBody2 = "Thank you for ordering that stuff" & vbCrLf
 MyBody2 = MyBody2 & "We appreciate your business" & vbCrLf
 MyBody2 = MyBody2 & "Your stuff will arrive within 7 business days"
 MyCDONTSMail3.Body= MyBody2
 MyCDONTSMail3.Send
 set MyCDONTSMail3=nothing
%>

When sending an attachment this is just a very simple example. There are certain encoding options and file type settings that you may also want to set.

ASP (Active Server Pages) is a technology developed by Microsoft. Pages using ASP are primarily developed in JScript, or VBScript and are integrated into the HTML of your Web pages. The ASP code is compiled on-the-fly by the server and the resulting output is standard HTML. By using ASP, Web pages can be dynamic, full of ever-changing content, and browser independent.