CDO for Windows 2000, XP

Chris

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Feb 14, 2002, 1:23:35 PM2/14/02

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I am using CDO for Windows 2000 to send messages from ASP
via SMTP. Under Windows 2000 this works fine but under
XP, I get always get the following error:

Error Type:
(0x8004020E)
Cannot modify or delete an object that was added using
the COM+ Admin SDK
/Include/Server/email.inc, line 43

Line 43 executes the Send method of the CDO.Message
object. I'm running XP Professional with VS6 SP5
installed. I am unable to find documentation on the
above error code anywhere in the knowledge base. I'm not
even sure what it refers to exactly, as I have no
knowledge of such an SDK even being installed on my
system.

Jason Johnston [MS]

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Feb 14, 2002, 2:16:47 PM2/14/02

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Chris,

That's a new one on me! Have you tried the sample from:
Q286431 HOWTO: Send HTML Mail with CDO for Win 2000 and Remote SMTP Serv
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q286431

Can you post your code?

Jason Johnston
Microsoft Developer Support - Messaging

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Chris Chaffee

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Feb 14, 2002, 4:37:46 PM2/14/02

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Attached is the code. It was originally written
following the example you mentioned, but has been
modified a bit for flexibility. I'm going to take a look
at the sample again and see if it runs on its own, but
I'm fairly confident that this code is almost identical
to what's in the sample.

Thanks,
Chris

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email.inc

Sam Low

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Feb 15, 2002, 4:27:54 AM2/15/02

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I have the following code and it works fine in a .VBS



  
  
    
      sub 
      SendMail(Subject,Message,ToWhom,FromWhom)
 dim oEmail
       
       set oEMail = 
      CreateObject("CDO.Message")
 oEMail.To = 
      ToWhom
 oEMail.From = FromWhom
 oEMail.Subject = 
      Subject
 oEMail.TextBody = 
      Message
 oEMail.Send
 set objEMail = nothing
end 
      sub
       
      SendMail 
      "Test","Hi!","saml...@hotmail.com","saml...@hotmail.com"

However, the same code in a .ASP on the very same machine (with server.CreateObject of course) gives me the following error:

CDO.Message.1 error '80040220'

The "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid.

/routines.asp, line 21

Line 21 is objEmail.Send.

On another IIS server (which I have no control and don't know the settings), however the same code works fine.

Anyone with any clues on what is causing the error?

Thanks.

Sam

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Sam Low

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Feb 15, 2002, 4:46:31 AM2/15/02

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Maybe I can give more clues:

1. I just tried this code segment in VB without modification and it works fine. The funny thing is that I didn't even have to add a reference to Microsoft CDO for Exchange 2000 Library (CDOEX.DLL). CDOSYS.DLL is not a choice in my VB reference list.

2. I am running Windows XP Professional, and I have Outlook XP with Exchange. My default simple MAPI client is however Outlook Express.

Thanks

Sam

PS: I am trying to avoid CDO.Configuration because it sure looks complicated. I just want a quick way to send simple mail.

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Siegfried Weber [MVP]

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Feb 15, 2002, 5:04:35 PM2/15/02

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"Sam Low" <saml...@hotmail.com> wrote in message...

>
>1. I just tried this code segment in VB without modification and it works
fine. The funny thing is that I didn't even have to add a reference to
>Microsoft CDO for Exchange 2000 Library (CDOEX.DLL). CDOSYS.DLL is not a
choice in my VB reference list.

After installing Office XP the CDO for Exchange 2000 library (CDOEX.DLL)
superseds CDOSYS, so you don't neet to worry about that.

>2. I am running Windows XP Professional, and I have Outlook XP with
Exchange. My default simple MAPI client is however Outlook Express.

> PS: I am trying to avoid CDO.Configuration because it sure looks
complicated. I just want a quick way to send simple mail.

Well, I'm afraid you can't. CDOSYS/CDOEX tries to use the SMTP messaging
configuration of the current logged on user. Because you use Outlook Express
it uses the same Outlook Express SMTP settings and work without any issue.
But your ASP app runs with an Anonymous account (I assume) which doesn't
have any Outlook Express SMTP config and I doubt you can over come this
because the ASP app running with th Anonymous account will not load the
appropriate part of the registry.

My bet is you'd go with a CDO config object. It is quite easy as you can
see:

Set objConfiguration = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration")
Set objFields = objConfiguration.Fields
With objFields
.Item(cdoSendUsingMethod) = cdoSendUsingPort
.Item(cdoSMTPServerPort) = 25
.Item(cdoSMTPServer) = "YourMailServer.YourDomain.Com"
.Update
End With
Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
With objMessage
Set .Configuration = objConfiguration
.From = "YourOri...@YourDomain.Com"
.To = "TheRec...@TheDomain.Com"
.Subject = "YourSubject"
'.TextBody = "YourTextBody"
.Send
End With

(Watch the line breaks!)
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