To use AspEmail in an ASP environment, you must create an instance
of the AspEmail object in your ASP script as follows:
<%
...
Set Mail =
Server.CreateObject("Persits.MailSender")
...
%>
To send email messages, AspEmail "talks" to an SMTP server. You must
specify the SMTP host address and, optionally, port number as follows:
Mail.Host = "mail.yourdomain.com"
Mail.Port = 25 ' Optional. Port is 25 by default
Starting with AspEmail 4.3, you
can specify a comma- or semicolon-separated list of SMTP hosts, as follows:
Mail.Host = "mail.yourdomain.com;mail2.yourdomain.com;host.someotherdomain.com"
If the first host on the list is down, AspEmail will automatically attempt
to connect to the second host, etc. If none of the specified hosts are
working an error exception will be thrown.
You must also specify the sender's email address and, optionally, name
as follows:
Mail.From = "sales@yourdomain.com"
Mail.FromName = "Sales
Department" ' Optional
To add the message recipients, CCs, BCCs, and Reply-To's, use the AddAddress,
AddCC, AddBcc and AddReplyTo methods, respectively. These methods accept
two parameters: the email address and, optionally, name. Notice that you
must not use an '=' sign to pass values to the methods. For example,
Mail.AddAddress "jsmith@company1.com",
"John Smith"
Mail.AddCC "bjohnson@company2.com"
' Name is optional
Use the Subject and Body properties to specify the message
subject and body text, respectively. A body can be in a text or HTML format.
In the latter case, you must also set the IsHTML property to True.
For example,
Mail.Subject = "Sales
Receipt"
Mail.Body = "Dear
John:" & chr(13) & chr(10) & "Thank you for your business.
Here is your receipt."
or
Mail.Subject = "Sales
Receipt"
Mail.Body = "<HTML><BODY
BGCOLOR=#0000FF>Dear John:....</BODY></HTML>"
Mail.IsHTML = True
To send a file attachment with the message, use the AddAttachment method.
It accepts the full path to the file being attached. Call this method as
many times as you have attachments. Notice that you must not use the '='
sign to pass a value to the method:
Mail.AddAttachment Server.Mappath
("/doc")
& "receipt.doc"
To send a message, call the Send method. The method throws exceptions
in case of an error. You may choose to handle them by using the On Error
Resume Next statement, as follows:
On Error Resume Next
Mail.Send
If Err <> 0 Then
Response.Write
"An error occurred: " & Err.Description
End If