hello

i have created en en application that need to send a  message to my users(throw the mail)im using IIS(the internal server) ,if somebody can tell me how to send  a mail message,how to set my mail host -i mean that im working in my computer and i want to check my system before the real thing-how to configurate my pc and how to send,i will want to sent to my outlook a messge just to see that its working.

thanks ahead

thanks for your fast replay

im talking about www but before i would like to check it in my system and i dont have any idea how to do it can you explein me ,with more clearance

thanks ahead

cdonts tutorial hers

http://www.webwiz.net/asp/tutorials/email_using_cdonts_tutorial.asp - http://www.webwiz.net/asp/tutorials/email_using_cdonts _tutorial.asp

cdosys/cdo

http://www.ehost.com/knowledgebase/read_article.bml?kbid=997 - http://www.ehost.com/knowledgebase/read_article.bml?kbid=997

how do i find my smtp server that is in my computer?

im using xp pro

thanks again

It's one of the installation options for iis. got to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Internet Information Services and look for Default SMTP Virtual Server.

If you don't see it, you'll have to install it from your XP installation disks. If there's a red x next to it, it's stopped. Right click on it to start it (You should leave it stopped when you're not actually testing).

Your smtp server can be referenced by the domain name "localhost" ( instead of xxx.mydomain.com)

To test if smtp is working properly on your machine:

Copy the following 4 lines into a .txt file:

From:  mailto:emailaddress@someplace.com - emailaddress@someplace.com 
To:  mailto:emailaddress@someplace.com - emailaddress@someplace.com 
Subject: testing
This is the test message body.

Change the email addresses to something you can check.

Copy the text file (not a shortcut) to the smtp pickup directory. On my XP machine, it's C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Pickup

Within a few seconds it should disappear from the directory and be mailed to the addresses.