Problem Sending Email in ASP

**DirtDiga** · Mar 19, 2002 14:55

I'm trying to learn asp, particualry so I can send mail from a form.

I tried this code which I got from www.webmasterbase/article/596/22

Code:

<%
Set Mail=Server.CreateObject(“CDONTS.NewMail”)Mail.To=”me@mydomain.com”
Mail.From=”testing-my@SP-Script.com”
Mail.Subject=”Just testing my script”
Mail.Body=”Hey! I am sending this email through an ASP Page and guess what? I haven’t learnt much yet, but know that ASP is very powerful.”
Mail.Send
Set Mail=nothing
%>

I save the code in a file called sendING_email.asp
When I try to execute the file I get this error:

HTTP 500.100 - Internal Server Error - ASP error
Internet Information Services

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Technical Information (for support personnel)

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript compilation (0x800A0408)
Invalid character
/sending_email.asp, line 2, column 29

Why isn't it working?

**Wbmstr84** · Mar 19, 2002 20:20

well you *might* want to try and put the Mail.To on a new line... i dont know if this has anything to do with it but its line two...

try it and see...

**wdmny** · Mar 19, 2002 21:23

Yep, thats probably it. Check the line that the error you posted says. Line 2 is the line where you did that.

**DirtDiga** · Mar 20, 2002 15:09

Actually, that's how I had it before I copied and pasted it into my question.

I'm now testing the code on my local machine to see if it would work but I get the same error.

The code actually looks like this:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<%
Set Mail=Server.CreateObject(“CDONTS.NewMail”)
Mail.To=”dave@belizeweb.com”
Mail.From=”testing-my@SP-Script.com”
Mail.Subject=”Just testing my script”
Mail.Body=”Hey! I am sending this email through an ASP Page and 
guess what? I haven’t learnt much yet, but know that ASP is very 
powerful.”
Mail.Send
Set Mail=nothing
%>


</body>
</html>

And the error that I get:

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript compilation (0x800A0408)
Invalid character
/sending_email.asp, line 9, column 29
Set Mail=Server.CreateObject(“CDONTS.NewMail”)
----------------------------^

Browser Type:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)

Page:
GET /sending_email.asp

Time:
Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 1:54:30 PM

I still don't know what's wrong. Can someone help?

**alexming** · Mar 20, 2002 15:50

Your have a couple of problems.

First One:
Get rid of the funky quotes that you are using. You are using the ASCII & #148; character and ASP is looking for the & #34; ASCII character.

Change this: ”
To this: "

Second One:

Code:

Mail.Body=”Hey! I am sending this email through an ASP Page and 
guess what? I haven’t learnt much yet, but know that ASP is very 
powerful.”

Will throw an error due to the fact that it wraps to more than 1 line.

Try this code instead and note that the only difference is the use of the proper quotes character and the fact that I am concatenating the lines of your Mail.Body. In addition be SURE to use a valid FROM address that is valid for the account or you will wait all day for that email that will never come

Code:

<%
Set Mail=Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
Mail.To="alexming@wilcointernet.net"
Mail.From="alexming@wilcointernet.net"
Mail.Subject="Just testing my script"
Mail.Body="Hey! I am sending this email through an ASP Page " & _
"and guess what? I haven’t learnt much yet, but know that ASP is very powerful."
Mail.Send
Set Mail=nothing
%>

HTH

**DirtDiga** · Mar 20, 2002 16:09

If you are wondering why I am smiling it is because It's working now!

Thank you!

That was the best help and most straight forward answer I have received since I joined Sitepoint.

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