ASP account

[dboyd02]

What type of email scripts do I use on one of these accounts?

CDONTS

CDOSYS

aspmail

Jmail

Thanks,

Darryl

[dboyd02]

I have discovered that there is an additional email function for ChilliSoft called Chili!Mail sold seperatley. Does Hostgator have this email functionality on its ASP servers. If not, how do I get it. The ASP server is kind of useless if you can't generate any SMTP unless you are creating a static site (then why would you use ASP in the first place). Here is the article.

"Commonly, ASP applications need a mechanism to send email from the web. Chili!Soft ASP provide COM components, Chili!Mail (SMTP) to do it. Unfortunately, Chili!Soft sells it in separate package, SpicePack, with other important components such as Chili!POP3 dan Chili!Upload. This SpicePack must be purchased separately, it clarifies why after some business considerations, and lots of web-hosting companies decide not to invest in such package. In the end, we, the programmer, experience the difficulty when we need to send email from ASP application in Linux environment.

One of the solutions is to create a mail handler in language that already supporting send email feature like PHP, Perl or Python. Another solution as suggested by an article "Send E-Mail via ASP without CDONTS" (www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=390). The codes will generate text file in email format and save it in a directory, then setup a scheduled daemon to regularly check that particular folder, if there are any files inside. It will send them to mail handler program. The drawback of this system is email will be sent not instantly."