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Using CDO to Send Email from Your Windows Shared Hosting Web Site

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Last Updated: March 27, 2015 3:29 PM

Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) can be used to send email from Windows shared hosting websites running IIS 6, 7, or 8. The following code sample demonstrates how to use CDO to create and send email.

<%
sendUrl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing"
smtpUrl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver"


' Set the mail server configuration
Set objConfig=CreateObject("CDO.Configuration")
objConfig.Fields.Item(sendUrl)=2 ' cdoSendUsingPort
objConfig.Fields.Item(smtpUrl)="relay-hosting.secureserver.net"
objConfig.Fields.Update


' Create and send the mail
Set objMail=CreateObject("CDO.Message")
' Use the config object created above
Set objMail.Configuration=objConfig
objMail.From="sender@coolexample.com"
objMail.ReplyTo="sender@coolexample.com"
objMail.To="recipient@coolexample.com"
objMail.Subject="subject"
objMail.TextBody="body"
objMail.Send
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