GoDaddy Hosting and the CDO Mail Object
Well, my hosting upgrade was successful (I think) with just a couple glitches. *phew*
The one issue I had was in using the CDO Mail object (CDO.Message) to send email in asp pages. This is a necessary part of my shopping cart, but the page that sent an email to the customer was crashing (not very helpful, where software sales are concerned
)I was getting "error '8004020f'", which was described as an "unspecified error". Very helpful.
So I went to GoDaddy.com (my new hosting company) to see if I could find documentation on setting up CDO on their servers. NOTHING.
So then I ran some searches elsewhere, and found that lots of people have had problems getting CDO set up on GoDaddy servers. And that GoDaddy tech support people weren't particularly forthcoming with information on the subject.
Not a good sign.
So I played around with it, couldn't get it to work, and finally emailed GoDaddy support. Their reply scared me a bit:
Quote:
| Unfortunately this is something that we are not able to provide much service support for, I'm sorry. |
However, I kept reading, and in fact, although they claimed they couldn't give me tech support on that issue, they actually did give me exactly the information I needed. So, if you're stumped on getting CDO.Message object functioning on a GoDaddy hosting account, the following code may be helpful to you:
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| Dim Mail set Mail=server.createobject("CDO.Message") Mail.From = sender email address Mail.To= recipient email address Mail.Subject = email subject Mail.TextBody = email body Mail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") =2 Mail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") ="relay-hosting.secureserver.net" Mail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") =25 Mail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") =1 Mail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") =your email address Mail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") =your email password Mail.Configuration.Fields.Update Mail.Send set Mail=nothing |
The thing that annoyed me was, there was nothing anywhere in their documentation about the smtp server address "relay-hosting.secureserver.net", which means if you don't already have insider information, the only way you can set up CDO is to initiate a tech support question.
Posted On May 17, 2005 at 7:49 AM
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