Website Mail Configuration

In order to send mail from web sites hosted on our servers there are rules that you need to follow.

These rules are as follows:

The server must be smtpinternal.isat.co.za
The server port must be 587 (default)
The sender (From) must be ws4@isat.co.za
The recipient will most probably be the webmaster of the site.
The ReplyTo must be the person who filled in the form.

We have a mail component that hides most of this complexity from you (See iSAT Mail Object at bottom of page).
This component cannot be used in C#.

It has the following properties and methods:

Properties:

FromName - Sender's friendly name, e.g. Joe Public
ReplyTo - Sender's reply to address
ToAddress - Recipient email addresses
ToCC - Carbon Copy email addresses
ToBCC - Blind Carbon Copy email addresses
Subject - Subject of email
Body - Body of the email
Error - Description of any errors that occurred
HTML - True if body is in HTML format

Methods:

Send - Returns true if sent ok. If false check Error

You need to set up a page with a form that collects and posts the information to an ASP page. Here is Order.htm:

<html>
<head>
<title>Order</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="Send.asp">
<table border="1" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="14%">Name</td>
<td width="86%"><input type="text" name="Name" size="40"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="14%">Email</td>
<td width="86%"><input type="text" name="Email" size="40"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="14%">Description</td>
<td width="86%"><input type="text" name="Description" size="40"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"></p>
</form>
 
</body>
</html>

Here is Send.asp that sends mail based on the above form:

<html>
<head>
<title>Send</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
     Set SMTP = Server.CreateObject("iSATMail.SMTP")

     SMTP.FromName = Request("Name")
     SMTP.ToAddress = "myaddress@isat.co.za"
   SMTP.ReplyTo = Request("Email")
     SMTP.Subject = "Request from web by " & Request("Name")
     SMTP.Body = _
          "Name: " & Request("Name") & Chr(13) & Chr(10) & _
          "Email: " & Request("EMail") & Chr(13) & Chr(10) & _
          "Description: " & Request("Description")

     if not SMTP.Send then
          Response.Write("<p>Error: " & SMTP.Error & "</p>")
     else
          Response.Write("<p>Order sent.</p>")
     end if

     Set SMTP = Nothing
%>
</body>
</html>

For c# you can use the built-in MailMessage object. Here is an example:

In the .aspx file:

<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
   First Name:<br />
   <asp:TextBox ID="fnameTxb" runat="server" /><br />
   <br />
   surname:<br />
   <asp:TextBox ID="surnameTxb" runat="server" /><br />
   <br />
   Email:<br />
thaks    <asp:TextBox ID="emailTxb" runat="server" /><br />
   <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Submit" onclick="Button1_Click" />
</div>
</form>

In the aspx.cs file: (Note: Make sure to implement "using System.Net.Mail;")

protected void Button1_Click( object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MailMessage MailMsg = new MailMessage();
    try
    {
        // From address MUST be ws4@isat.co.za
        MailMsg.From = new MailAddress("ws4@isat.co.za");
        MailMsg.To.Add(new MailAddress("myaddress@isat.co.za"));
        MailMsg.ReplyTo = new MailAddress(emailTxb.Text);
        MailMsg.Subject = "Example of C# MailMessage object"
        MailMsg.IsBodyHtml = true;

        MailMsg.Body = "<b>Name: </b>" + fnameTxb.Text + "<br>" +
             "<b>Surname: </b>" + surnameTxb.Text + "<br>" +
             "<b>Email: </b>" + emailTxb.Text + "<br>" +
    }
    finally
    {
        SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("smtpinternal.isat.co.za", 587);
        client.Send(MailMsg);
        // Redirect to notification page
    }
}

You can however use the Windows CDO.Message object to send mail, as long as you follow the rules above.

Examples can be found at ... http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_send_email.asp

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