SMTPSend v1.23

Welcome to SMTPSend v1.22, A shareware ISAPI module to allow you to send Internet (SMTP) email from your web server. You can use this to implement Interactive elements on your Web site such as Guest Books, Question and Answer sections etc.

Usage

To use the module on your web server, you need to copy the SMTPSend dll on to the web server directory where you want to use it from. The module was developed using MFC. It does not require any special dlls to be installed on the web server as it statically links to MFC.

All of the settings for the module can be configured from the client side. Usually you would accomplish this using HTML "text" and "hidden" form fields. Calling the SMTPSend module directly without any function name or parameters will simple HTML page describing the use of SMTPSend with links to relavent pages

The module includes one end user function, called "Send" and it takes 7 parameters namely:

server: This is the address of the SMTP mail server to use. This will normally have the form "mail.someisp.com".

to: This is a list of email addresses of who the email is to be sent to. e.g "pjna@naughter.com, pj.naughter@softech-telecom.com"

cc: This is a list of email addresses of who the email is CC'ed (Carbon Copied) to. e.g "pjna@naughter.com, pj.naughter@softech-telecom.com"

bcc: This is a list of email addresses of who the email is BCC'ed (Blind Carbon Copied) to. e.g "pjna@naughter.com, pj.naughter@softech-telecom.com"

from: This is the email address of who the email is from. e.g "president@whitehouse.gov"

subject: This is the subject line of the email. e.g. "Re: SMTPSend"

body: This is the message body of the email. e.g "Keep up the good work"

subjectprefix: This is a piece of text which will be prefixed to the subject line. This can be helpful if you are developing a guestbook type of application, where you could use SMTPSend to prefix all guestbook emails send to you with something like "Guestbook - ". You could then set up a filter in your email program to send all messages with this in the subject like into a special folder for all your guestbook emails.

okpage: This is the URL of the page the module should return after successfully sending the email. e.g. "sendok.htm". Please note that this parameter is ignored in evaluation copies of SMTPSend. Instead a hardcoded page is returned informed the user that an unregistered copy of SMTPSend is in use. Registration of SMTPSend removes this limitation.

As an example have a look at the default page returned which includes a form to allow all of the values to be changed

History

V1.0 (10 January 1999)

• Initial public release.

V1.1 (11 January 1999)

• Removed the restriction where the okpage was required to be in the same directory as the SMTPSend dll. The okpage you specify can now be any URL. When an SMTP email has been successfully sent, a HTTP 302 redirection code is sent back to the client which the client browser can then redirect to.
• Included extra server side error checking for inappropriate empty parameters.
• Fixed an error in the code which returned error pages when the mail server could not be connected to and when the mail server failed to send the mail.
• Included a planned enhancements section in this file.
• Included a second test page "testsmtpsend.htm" which allows all of the SMTPSend parameters to be changed by the client.

V1.2 (18 January 1999)

• Added support for multiple recipients in TO, CC and BCC fields.
• Added support for CC (Carbon Copy) and BCC (Blind Carbon Copy).
• SMTPSend now statically links with MFC meaning that you no longer require the correct MFC dlls to be installed on the server.
• Module now implements a registration scheme.
• Use of the okpage parameter has been limited to the registered version of SMTPSend.

V1.21 (20 January 1999)

• Fixed a possible synchronisation problem when trying to register the product and a send request occurs at the same time.
• Updated all version infos to 1.21
• All HTML files returned from SMTPSend are now stored as HTML resources inside in the dll.
• Removed the testsmtpsend.htm, register.htm & testsmtpsend2.htm files from the distribution as they are now covered by the default page.
• Improved the look of the default page returned.

V1.22 (22 February 1999)

• Now internally uses v1.31 of my SMTP class.

V1.23 (14 May 1999)

• Now internally uses v1.33 of my SMTP class.

Shareware Notice

SMTPSend is shareware and this trial version is fully functional except for the okpage parameter. This means that you will not be able to use the okpage parameter from client side code and instead will receive a hardcoded HTML page when you cannot change until you register.

The shareware concept means that you are free to evaluate and use SMTPSend for up to 30 days. After this period if you are still using SMTPSend then you should register SMTPSend with the author. The cost is $10 US. Currently I do not support online registration for SMTPSend, but if interest is sufficient I will consider making online registration available. Payment should be made by cheque and be made out to:

Once you receive the registration details from me, just fill in the details in the form which is returned from the default page is returned in the SMTPSend DLL.

Planned Enhancements

• If you have any other suggested improvements, please let me know so that I can incorporate them into the next release.

CONTACTING THE AUTHOR

PJ Naughter
Email: pjna@naughter.com
Web: http://www.naughter.com
17 April 2000