Send an email using ASP

Introduction

This article shows how to send email from an ASP page using CDONTS Component.

Code snippet

Sub send_email(email_from, email_to, email_subject, email_body)
    Dim Newmail
    Set Newmail = server.CreateObject ("cdonts.newmail")
    
    Newmail.BodyFormat = 0
    Newmail.MailFormat = 0
    Newmail.From = email_from
    Newmail.To = email_to
    Newmail.Subject = email_subject
    Newmail.Body = email_body
    Newmail.Send
    
    Set Newmail = Nothing    
End Sub

To call the procedure:

Call send_email("from@domain.com","to@domain.com","Subject","Body")

If you have any difficulty using CDONTS, it is most often the configuration of the SMTP service on IIS. There is not much that can go wrong with this simple, yet extremely powerful component.