This article outlines the email components available for sending emails with ASP code.
Email components available to ASP websites
- CDO (example: http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_send_email.asp )
- w3JMail (example: http://dimac.net/Products/w3JMail/Version43/Examples/Simple.htm )
- ASPEmail (example: http://www.aspemail.com/Manual.htm )
If you are developing websites with ASP, and there is a requirement to send email from an ASP page, you may use one of these components. If you are installing a third party website application developed in ASP, verify that the application has support for one of the components listed below. If support is available for any of these components, you will need to configure the application to use a specific component. Please refer to the installation/configuration manual of the application for instructions on how to configure it for a specific mail component. All of these components are widely used and it is very likely that a popular ASP application will support at least one of them. However, if an application doesn't support any of the listed components, you will need to adapt or modify the code and use one of the available components.
Please note: IcewarpCOM email component is no longer supported.
SMTP Server settings for email Components
Each webserver has an SMTP proxy locally installed. Therefore, it is recommended that you use 'localhost' as your SMTP server at the default port (TCP 25). If you are using CDO or w3Jmail, there is no need to specify an SMTP server or port, as they use 'localhost' by default. ASPEmail requires that you specify a server anyway.
No SMTP authentication is necessary in order to send emails from ASP websites.