ASP Email Form
You can easily add limited email functionality to your ASP programs using the
Message object. The Message object is not very feature intensive, but this lesson
will show you how to implement a basic email form on your ASP site.
Experienced web masters might have noticed that whenever you put
your email address onto the internet, so that your visitors can email you, you instantly get
hit with tons of spam. This is most likely because a spammer's email finder application
saw your email address and added it to their nasty hit list.
You can receive emails from your visitors, without letting the general public know your
email address, using what is taught in this lesson.
Quicky HTML Form
Before we start worrying about how to send the email, let's make a basic HTML
form that will gather the following information from the user:
Our HTML file will be called "tizagEmailForm.html" and should be saved in a directory
that can Run ASP.
tizagEmailForm.html Code:
<form method="POST" action="tizagEmail.asp">
To <input type="text" name="To"/> <br />
From <input type="text" name="From"/> <br />
Subject <input type="text" name="Subject"/> <br />
Body <textarea name="Body" rows="5" cols="20" wrap="physical" >
</textarea>
<input type="submit" />
</form>
If you would like a refresher on HTML Forms check out our HTML Forms Lesson.
ASP NewMail Object Death
Microsoft has made it rather confusing by changing their implementations of sending mail with ASP.
In older ASP versions you would send mail with the NewMail Object. However, new versions of Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS)
software has changed again to instead use the Message object.
ASP Mail Processor
Now that we have our handy dandy HTML Form we need to create the ASP file that
will retrieve this data and shoot off an email. All the properties that are set in the following
code are self-explanatory and write only. Also, because Message is an object, it must be Set equal to nothing
after we have finished with it to release the memory allocated to it.
The name of the ASP file is "tizagEmail.asp" and should be saved to the same directory
as "tizagEmailForm.html".
tizagEmail.asp:
<%
'Sends an email
Dim mail
Set mail = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
mail.To = Request.Form("To")
mail.From = Request.Form("From")
mail.Subject = Request.Form("Subject")
mail.TextBody = Request.Form("Body")
mail.Send()
Response.Write("Mail Sent!")
'Destroy the mail object!
Set mail = nothing
%>
Please note that this is a very basic ASP Email Form and is only for education
purposes. If you were to put an email form on your web site you would want
to do some checking to make sure the email addresses are valid, allow for attachments, etc.
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