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ASP Scripting With CDO General Scripting Information The scripting information provided here is aimed at Espinda' customers. Much of the code is applicable to any Windows based Web Server. However some parameters, such as the methods used to derive the names of the smtp servers, may not be valid. Our ASP scripts are all written in VBS; we provide no JScript equivalents. We do provide Perl equivalents using the same technologies. Perl users should now use the JMail object in place of BLAT for sending mail from their scripts. If you currently use Blat, please change it. Before we go into detail on how to get your form working, let's look at some ground rules that will ensure your mail isn't blocked: * Fasthoss redirects all web based mail to an SMTP Filter System. Mails must have either a valid "from" or "to" address which is a domain hosted with Espinda. Any mail that doesn't fulfil these criteria is dropped. If you are sending mail to a customer who has given you his email address, you need to use the domain name of the site (note that it does not need to be a valid mailbox on the account) noreply@domain.tld is a fairly common one to use. Remember to use a valid account if you want the customer to reply to the email. * Espinda' SMTP Filter System rate limits outgoing mail from any domain. This prevents bulk emailing. Our limits are set to allow normal form based email activity to pass unhindered, but stop any persistent attempt to send bulk mail. * Do not use your site for mass emailing (spam). The SMTP Filter System will prevent this, and the information gets logged. Attempting to bulk email will lead to your site being closed by our abuse department. * We recommend you delivery mail direct to our main SMTP server cluster for speed and efficiency rather than the local MS SMTP server. To do this you need to use the CDOSYS object rather than the CDONTS object. The code below demonstrates how to do use this object and the CDO configuration object to send mail. Using CDO in ASP to Provide Email on Your Site The first thing to do is to make sure your form in the submitting page is correct. In its simplest form it should look like: <form action="cdonts.asp" method="post" name= "mailform"><input name="email" type= "text" size="40" /><input name= "email_submit" type="submit" value= "sendmail" /> </form> Now to the real scripting. Using the example submit form above, this is the code in the cdonts.asp file. First initialize the variables - though this isn't strictly necessary, its good programming practice to do so. dim oCdoMsg, oCdoConfg, strReferer, strServer, strClientIP, strServerIP, blnSpam Next set up the CDO object. set oCdoMsg = server.createobject("CDO.Message") After that obtain some information about the site using the request.servervariables object. Note that we get the referrer page here. This is the page that carried out the page post operation. strReferer = request.servervariables("HTTP_REFERER") strServer = Replace(request.servervariables("SERVER_NAME"), "www.", "") strClientIP = request.servervariables("REMOTE_ADDR") strServerIP = request.servervariables("LOCAL_ADDR") strFrom = "noreply@" & strServer Now use this information to check that the posting page is on the same site as the script. This prevents others using your script for bulk emailing activities - see the note at the bottom of this page. intComp = inStr(strReferer, strServer) If intComp > 0 Then blnSpam = False Else ' Spam Attempt Block blnSpam = True End If Next populate the CDO object with the correct data. Note that we use the server information to set up the sender and the smtp server. The recipient is obtained from the request object. oCdoMsg.to = request.form("email") oCdoMsg.from = strFrom oCdoMsg.Subject = "CDO Test Mail" oCdoMsg.Textbody = "This test mail has been sent from server " oCdoMsg.Textbody = oCdoMsg.Textbody & request.servervariables("LOCAL_ADDR") & " via CDO mail objects." The next section sets CDO to use our main SMTP server cluster rather than the local MS SMTP Service. We recommend using our main SMTP servers. strMSSchema = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/" Set oCdoConfg = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Configuration") oCdoConfg.Fields.Item(strMSSchema & "sendusing") = 1 oCdoConfg.Fields.Item(strMSSchema & "smtpserver") = "smtp." & strServer oCdoConfg.Fields.Update Set oCdoMsg.Configuration = oCdoConfg This bit of code checks the referrer is correct, and if so sends the mail through CDO to the local SMTP server queue. If NOT blnSpam Then oCdoMsg.send strResult = "Mail Sent." Else strResult = "Mail Not Sent." End If response.write strResult After outputting whatever text you want to tell the client that the job is done, clean up the objects we have used. set oCdoMsg = nothing set oCdoConfg = nothing That's it. Note - If you don't protect your scripts by checking the referrer, you will leave them open to abuse by bulk mailers. If this happens you site may be closed by our abuse department.
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