Jul
04
2002
Sending mail from ASP application
Posted by admin under
ASP
You know the problem... You download a piece of ASP sourcecode which includes some sort of sending email functionality, it might be a recommend-a-page script, forum etc: - you will now need to get it to work with the email component you are using - cause it is not the same as the developer used... What I want to do ( with the help of all you fellow ASP developers ) is to create a generic SendMail function.
So, this is a desperate try to solve the hell ( excuse my language ) involving emailing in ASP. The goal is of course to try to get as many developers as possible to use the same convention. So when you download a free component it will be an easy task to get emailing functionality to work. Let's say you download a discussion forum following these simple conventions. Now you only need to change a few variables at in one single file ( incgenmail.asp ) and you are safe home! Of course this is a dream, but we can all help by start using it. I will personally contact developers to try to get them use it. And even if I cant convince them if you use it for your own projects such task as switching webhost ( to one that uses another email component ) will be so easy.
I have recreated my old "Generic Sendmail" project - please visit ASPCode.net generic Sendmail project