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sash
10-25-2004, 10:25 AM
Please can someone help. I have Windows 2000 on IIS5.0. I have written a form, on submit I want the form deatils to be sent to an email address. Am using ASP with CDONTS. Am I supposed to use CDO and what is the difference? It works in a sense, I get the contents of the form in the badmail folder on IIS, no error.I am trying to determine where the problem is as the mail has to go through a Groupwise Internet Agent before it reaches my SMTP server.(this is all for an Intranet btw)and its not doing that at all. So, what I want to know is, can CDONTS be used for Win2000 or do I have to use CDO?Thanks!
afterburn
10-25-2004, 10:44 AM
CDONTS is legacy from NT4.
CDO is its replacement 2k and better all have it.

A bit of difference between the components, CDO has more flexiblity, you do not have to install SMTP locally for it to work correctly.
Horus_Kol
10-25-2004, 12:08 PM
just a note - CDONTS should be isntalled as a library on 2K - its support was only removed on 2003 (afaik)
Doug G
10-25-2004, 07:45 PM
Originally posted by Horus_Kol
just a note - CDONTS should be isntalled as a library on 2K - its support was only removed on 2003 (afaik)
I think this is correct, although I've heard some complaints about CDONTS coming up missing on some XP installs.
eRad
10-25-2004, 10:08 PM
that's because, if i remember correctly, CDONTS is not included in XP - it was removed... you'd have to manually install the dll
Horus_Kol
10-26-2004, 04:07 AM
i've only noticed it missing on 2k3 - but then i haven't tried to use it on anything else...
eRad
10-26-2004, 09:36 AM
Originally posted by Horus_Kol
i've only noticed it missing on 2k3 - but then i haven't tried to use it on anything else...
i've used it fine on an NT/2000 machine, but i think i remember last term someone had a problem with it, and then ryan told me it was removed in XP
longcall911
10-28-2004, 09:01 PM
On my hosted accounts, I have always used CDONTS and have never had a problem. Of course the hosted accounts also provide fully configured SMTP so it's a snap.
Horus_Kol
10-29-2004, 04:01 AM
yeah, but if the host changes to W2K3 - like they did on one friend of mine - then CDONTS calls will not function.
afterburn
10-29-2004, 10:32 AM
Originally posted by Horus_Kol
yeah, but if the host changes to W2K3 - like they did on one friend of mine - then CDONTS calls will not function.

Agreed. Never rely on a peice of code that is marked obsolete. In .net your code will not compile if the interface is marked atleast not with the Warning level 4 setting. Otherwise it would work fine.