Problem with FormMail

[dazman1360]

I'm currently working my way through the Sitepoint book 'Build your own standard compliant website using DW8' Part of the project site is to have a contact page with a form. ASP was supported by the hosting company I use so downloaded the script from http://www.brainjar.com/asp/formmail/ which was recommended in the book.

If I try and submit a form in Firefox I get the following error:

Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 800401f3'
Server.CreateObject Failed
/codespark/FormMail.asp, line 465
800401f3

If I try in IE6 I get page not available....

I'm new to all this, so would appreciate any help.

The contact page can be found here: http://www.houndsbaybassets.co.uk/co...tactasp2.shtml

The ASP script here: http://www.houndsbaybassets.co.uk/co...k/FormMail.asp

Many thanks

[jimfraser]

There is no way for us to review the ASP code - it is executed and converted to HTML.

Server.CreateObject error means that the server is unable to create an activeX component (in this case mail component) due to it being
- missing (usually)
- badly configured

You would need to open your ASp file and post line 465 here.

[salmon66]

I agree... Without seeing the code... its impossible to pinpoint.
But.. using this script myself... it looks like the customization at the start of the formmail.asp script is not setup completley.

referers = Array()
mailComp = "ASPMail"
smtpServer = "INSERT YOUR EMAIL SERVER ADDRESS HERE"
fromAddr = "INSERT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HERE"

I think just changing the smtpserver and fromAddr fields is all that is required. As long as the rest of the formmail script is unaltered it should work out of the box... or at least it did for me.
Hope this helps.

Cheers

[dazman1360]

Sorry guys, I should have realised you couldn't look the ASP Code.

The entire code can be seen here: http://www.houndsbaybassets.co.uk/co...k/FormMail.txt

The customized section at the top is:
referers = Array("www.houndsbaybassets.co.uk", "houndsbaybassets.co.uk")
mailComp = "ASPMail"
smtpServer = "smtp.ntlworld.com"
fromAddr = "formmail@moleabbey.co.uk"

Line 465 is:
set mailObj = Server.CreateObject("SMTPsvg.Mailer")

Thanks again.

[jimfraser]

are you sure the hosting company has SMTPsvg.Mailer installed?

[dazman1360]

are you sure the hosting company has SMTPsvg.Mailer installed?

Not sure, I've emailed them....

[dhtmlgod]

I'm guessing by the error that they don't. Change this line:

mailComp   = "ASPMail"

to

mailComp   = "CDOSYS"

[dazman1360]

I'm guessing by the error that they don't. Change this line:

mailComp   = "ASPMail"

to

mailComp   = "CDOSYS"

With that change I now get this error:

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0408'
Invalid character
/codespark/FormMail.asp, line 304
for i = 1 to Len(domain?
-----------------------^

Line 304 reads:

for i = 1 to Len(domain?
charCode = Asc(Mid(domain, i, 1))

Many thanks

[dazman1360]

are you sure the hosting company has SMTPsvg.Mailer installed?

The answer was No!

[Northern Star]

The answer was No!

That solves that problem then!

With that change I now get this error:

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0408'
Invalid character
/codespark/FormMail.asp, line 304
for i = 1 to Len(domain?
-----------------------^

Line 304 reads:

for i = 1 to Len(domain?
charCode = Asc(Mid(domain, i, 1))
!

The correct syntax for 'Len' (in this case) should be...

Len(strName)

Or

Len("This string contains 35 characters!")