SendMail Problem

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I Guess The Problem Is I Have No SendMail Prog On My Host. My Host Is My Computer. (Yes, I'm Cheap And I Looked For The Easy Way Out.) Only To Find That The Easy Way Out Isn't Too Easy. I'm Running Windows 2000 Adv Serv, And I Have IIS 5.0 As A Web Server.

Where Can I Get A SendMail Prog That Will Run On An IIS Server With Matt's FormMail Script. I'm Using ActiveState's ActivePerl.

Yes, I Am As Newbie As It Gets. :-P

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since you havn't had an answer yet I'll post a way I found round this problem once. You need to edit a bit of perl though.
I was in a similar situation where I had a perl program, discussion forums, and for some network reason I didn't understand (and the network admin didn't help much with) I couldn't access the mailserver from the perl script by just entering it into the configuration file. End result is the same, no mail server for the perl script.

IIS comes with an SMTP service, it was running on the server I was given to work with already

If you have the C:\inetpub\mailroot directory on your machine then it will be installed (but you may need to start it).

You can use the SMTP service by writing a text file in the right format and copying it into the pickup directory (which I think is in the mailroot directory).

format is as follows:

*************************
x-sender: [e-mail]
x-receiver: [e-mail]
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: blah

blah blah blah.
************************

the message will then automatically be sent, or saved to the badmessage directory if the format was wrong.

You need to edit the perl script to send a text file of the email message to the pickup directory every time it sends an email message. The chances are this will handled by a single script which is called from other scripts to send emails, and you'll only need to edit that one script.

Also you might have a problem if two users click 'send' at the same time, so you need to generate random filenames for the email text files to make sure they don't overwrite each other half way through being sent.

It wasn't pretty but it worked for my low traffic forums.

Unfortunately this was a while ago, and I no longer have the code, sorry.

I got the information on the smtp service from "administering IIS4" by mitch tulloch, but it worked fine on IIS5.