Invalid Class Object error using CDONTS

I want to send a confirmation email automatically (without a second page and button to click) to a subscriber when she signs up for my newsletter. I am using a form and FrontPage generated ASP to save the information to a database, and that part works.
Now I need to get the address from the form and send email to it.

When I use the following:



I get an invalid class error. I am running IIS 6 on my local machine that I use for testing, and it has SMTP installed and running.

I had a similar problem when moving to IIS 6 / Windows 2003

http://www.devarticles.com/forum/sh...=&threadid=3568

"Microsoft is using a new progID of the DLL used to send mail through CDO (CDONTS.NewMail is being shuffled out)" (from http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2026)

Long story short, you need to copy the cdonts.dll from a Windows 2000 box and register it or rewrite your code.

Thanks. I've been reading about CDOSYS and since my code isn't working anyway, I'll look for a bigger hammer.

I'd def recommend learning CDOSYS. I've used it recently and it is about a gazillion times more powerful than CDONTS (which, lets face it, sucked for anything more complicated than sending one simple email). CDOSYS is also 5 times faster, and interfaces nicely with exchange (i.e. better messaging capabilities). You have control over which SMTP u wanna use, you can queue messages (for mass mailing)...etc... the list goes on.

Here's an article on making the transition

Thanks for the article. It cleared up several things.