ASP Email Form
You can easily add limited
email functionality to your ASP
programs using the Message object.
The Message object is not very
feature intensive, but this lesson
will show you how to implement a
basic email form on your ASP site
Experienced web masters might
have noticed that whenever you put
your email address onto the
internet, so that your visitors
can email you, you instantly get
hit with tons of spam. This is
most likely because a spammer's
email finder application saw your
email address and added it to
their nasty hit list.
You can receive emails from
your visitors, without letting the
general public know your email
address, using what is taught in
this lesson.
Quicky HTML Form
Before we start worrying about
how to send the email, let's make
a basic HTML form that will gather
the following information from the
user:
Our HTML file will be called "codetellerEmailForm.html"
and should be saved in a directory
that can Run ASP.
codetellerEmailForm.html Code:
<form method="POST" action="codetellerEmail.asp">
To <input type="text"
name="To"/> <br />
From <input type="text"
name="From"/> <br />
Subject <input type="text"
name="Subject"/> <br />
Body <textarea name="Body"
rows="5" cols="20"
wrap="physical" >
</textarea>
<input type="submit" />
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ASP NewMail Object Death
Microsoft has made it rather
confusing by changing their
implementations of sending mail
with ASP. In older ASP versions
you would send mail with the
NewMail Object. However, new
versions of Microsoft's Internet
Information Services (IIS)
software has changed again to
instead use the Message object.
ASP Mail Processor
Now that we have our handy
dandy HTML Form we need to create
the ASP file that will retrieve
this data and shoot off an email.
All the properties that are set in
the following code are
self-explanatory and write only.
Also, because Message is an
object, it must be Set equal to
nothing after we have finished
with it to release the memory
allocated to it.
The name of the ASP file is "codeellerEmail.asp"
and should be saved to the same
directory as "codetellerEmailForm.html".
codetellerEmail.asp:
<%
'Sends an email
Dim mail
Set mail =
Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
mail.To = Request.Form("To")
mail.From = Request.Form("From")
mail.Subject =
Request.Form("Subject")
mail.TextBody =
Request.Form("Body")
mail.Send()
Response.Write("Mail Sent!")
'Destroy the mail object!
Set mail = nothing
%>> |
Please note that this is a very
basic ASP Email Form and is only
for education purposes. If you
were to put an email form on your
web site you would want to do some
checking to make sure the email
addresses are valid, allow for
attachments, etc.
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