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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Learn how to send an email with CDOSYS, a CDONTs alternative for sending emails with Win2k and WinXP.
If you currently use CDONTS for sending email, the time may have come to bury the dead and move on. Microsoft introduced CDONTS with IIS4, allowing programmers to easily send email from ASP without purchasing and installing 3rd-party components. But, like any evolving technology, a new version has taken center stage. CDOSYS is Microsoft's new and improved interface for SMTP email which was introduced in Windows 2000.