X-Send

Send e-mail fast and efficently with X-Send. X-Send uses CDOSYS, which works with Windows Servers Software 2000 and up. X-Send supports the sending of Plain text and HTML e-mails, it also has built in support for SMTP server authentication and easy configuration using the Scripting.Dicionary object. X-Send also supports custom error reporting and reports complete errors returned by VBScript. We are currently working on adding some new and exciting features to X-Send, some of the things we are working on are:

Attachement Sending

Multipart Messages

Even more error reporting

Custom Headers

Installation

Requirements:

IIS 5.0 or higher
CDOSYS
ASP Enabled web server

You can easily install X-Send on your web server, it take just a matter of seconds. Simply upload X-Send.asp to your web server, and your done. Yes thats it, X-Send is now ready to work for you.

Using X-Send in your code

There is one thing you will find tricky about using X-Send, while you don't have to memorize CDO schema URLs or anything like that X-Send can be tricky to implement into existing code. If you are writing new code, however, you will find X-Send much easier. First thing you need to do is add some metadata to your global.asa or to X-Send.asp. This metadata will vary as it depends on your web server's installed components.

Here are some examples:

Windows Server 2000 and Windows XP Professional

 

Windows Server 2003

 

You might have to do some experimenting with TypeLib if X-Send doesn't work. Some Microsoft service packs or updates will cause varations from this help file.

Configuring X-Send

There are 15 properties that allow you to configure X-Send. See below for details

  SendUsing: cdoSendUsingPickup or cdoSendUsingPort
  SMTPServer: SMTP server address if SendUsing = cdoSendUsingPort
  SMTPServerPort: SMTP server port if SendUsing = cdoSendUsingPort
  SMTPAuthenticate: True to Authenticate on SMTP Server, False to Authenticate Anonymous
  SMTPUserName: Username to Authenticate as
  SMTPPassWord: Password to Authenticate with
  SMTPServerPickUpDirectory: Path to PickUp direcory if SendUsing = cdoSendUsingPickup
  Importance: cdoLow, cdoNormal, or cdoHigh
  ToName: First and Last Name of addressee
  ToEMail: E-Mail Address of addressee
  FromName: Site Name or First and Last Name of sender
  FromEMail: Site E-Mail or Sender E-Mail
  Subject: Message Subject
  HTMLBody: True for HTML Messages, False for Plain Text Messages
  Message: HTML or Plain Text message

Error Reporting

X-Send function returns a collection of information containing error codes if any errors were encountered. While this feature is still very much in development, it also supports custom errors. You can obtain this collection using the dictionary object, this will be further explained in the next section, along with some other examples. See below for what is returned in the collection:

  MessageSent: True or False, Indicates if error was encountered while sending message
  ErrorMessage: Reserved for future development
  ErrorNumber: Reports VBScript Err.Number
  ErrorDescription: Reports VBScript Err.Description
  ErrorSource: Reports VBScript Err.Source

Error reporting will not report a problem between SMTP servers, as once the page is executed and a report is made the message is no longer tracked. This also means that your custom error could report a message as sent, but the addressee could never get the message. This has nothing to do with X-Send, but more to do with SMTP servers you are using.

Code Examples

To aid you in development here are some examples on how to use X-Send.

Send an email via SMTP Authentication

  Dim objEMailParms, objEMailResponse, blnMessageSent
  Set objEMailParms = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
  objEMailParms.Add "SendUsing", cdoSendUsingPort
  objEMailParms.Add "SMTPServer", "localhost"
  objEMailParms.Add "SMTPServerPort", 25
  objEMailParms.Add "SMTPAuthenticate", True
  objEMailParms.Add "SMTPUserName", "username@yourdomain.com"
  objEMailParms.Add "SMTPPassWord", "asdas"
  objEMailParms.Add "Importance", cdoNormal
  objEMailParms.Add "ToName", "John Doe"
  objEMailParms.Add "ToEMail", "jdoe@yourdomain.com"
  objEMailParms.Add "FromName", "Your Site OR Your Name"
  objEMailParms.Add "FromEMail", "webmaster@yoursite.com"
  objEMailParms.Add "Subject", "Your Subject goes here"
  objEMailParms.Add "HTMLBody", False
  objEMailParms.Add "Message", "Your Message goes here!"
  Set objEMailResponse = SendMail(objEMailParms)
  objEMailParms.RemoveAll()
  Set objEMailParms = Nothing
  blnMessageSent = objEMailResponse.Item("MessageSent")
  objEMailResponse.RemoveAll()
  Set objEMailResponse = Nothing
  If blnMessageSent = True Then
    Response.Write("Message was sent!")
  Else
    Response.Write("Message failed!")
  End If

Send an email without SMTP Authentication

  Dim objEMailParms, objEMailResponse, blnMessageSent
  Set objEMailParms = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
  objEMailParms.Add "SendUsing", cdoSendUsingPort
  objEMailParms.Add "SMTPServer", "localhost"
  objEMailParms.Add "SMTPServerPort", 25
  objEMailParms.Add "SMTPAuthenticate", False
  objEMailParms.Add "Importance", cdoNormal
  objEMailParms.Add "ToName", "John Doe"
  objEMailParms.Add "ToEMail", "jdoe@yourdomain.com"
  objEMailParms.Add "FromName", "Your Site OR Your Name"
  objEMailParms.Add "FromEMail", "webmaster@yoursite.com"
  objEMailParms.Add "Subject", "Your Subject goes here"
  objEMailParms.Add "HTMLBody", False
  objEMailParms.Add "Message", "Your Message goes here!"
  Set objEMailResponse = SendMail(objEMailParms)
  objEMailParms.RemoveAll()
  Set objEMailParms = Nothing
  blnMessageSent = objEMailResponse.Item("MessageSent")
  objEMailResponse.RemoveAll()
  Set objEMailResponse = Nothing
  If blnMessageSent = True Then
    Response.Write("Message was sent!")
  Else
    Response.Write("Message failed!")
  End If

Send an HTML e-mail

  Dim objEMailParms, objEMailResponse, blnMessageSent
  Set objEMailParms = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
  objEMailParms.Add "SendUsing", cdoSendUsingPort
  objEMailParms.Add "SMTPServer", "localhost"
  objEMailParms.Add "SMTPServerPort", 25
  objEMailParms.Add "SMTPAuthenticate", False
  objEMailParms.Add "Importance", cdoNormal
  objEMailParms.Add "ToName", "John Doe"
  objEMailParms.Add "ToEMail", "jdoe@yourdomain.com"
  objEMailParms.Add "FromName", "Your Site OR Your Name"
  objEMailParms.Add "FromEMail", "webmaster@yoursite.com"
  objEMailParms.Add "Subject", "Your Subject goes here"
  objEMailParms.Add "HTMLBody", True
  objEMailParms.Add "Message", "Your Message goes here!"
  Set objEMailResponse = SendMail(objEMailParms)
  objEMailParms.RemoveAll()
  Set objEMailParms = Nothing
  blnMessageSent = objEMailResponse.Item("MessageSent")
  objEMailResponse.RemoveAll()
  Set objEMailResponse = Nothing
  If blnMessageSent = True Then
    Response.Write("Message was sent!")
  Else
    Response.Write("Message failed!")
  End If