Support for CDO in Windows Server 2003
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Topic: Support for CDO in Windows Server 2003
Posted By: wistex
Subject: Support for CDO in Windows Server 2003
Date Posted: 21 October 2003 at 2:48pm
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Does version 7.5 of the Forums support CDO on Windows Server 2003? Windows 2003 no longer comes with CDONTS.
We are moving to a new server AND upgrading to version 7.5 of the forums. We were using forum version 7.01 on Windows 2000 with CDONTS currently, and need to get the e-mail notifications to work on the new server. Thanks. ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
Windows Server 2003 IIS Help File wrote:
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 October 2003 at 2:54pm
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All version of Web Wiz Forums from 6.x have supported CDOSYS that is
used on Win2k, WinXP, and Win 2003. (CDOSYS is the CDO email component) Some versions of Windows 2003 do have CDONTS and if not CDONTS can be installed on the web server, many web hosts do support CDONTS under Windows 2003. If you are usure how to install CDONTS on Win 2003 there are plenty of tutorials on this as WinXP doesn't ship with CDONTS and many people including myself have installed CDONTS on WinXP and Windows 2003. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 21 October 2003 at 2:59pm
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Which would be better? Installing CDONTS or using the CDOSYS? EDIT: Also, are you saying that CDOSYS is the same thing as CDO? They just decided to call it CDO instead of CDOSYS in Windows 2003? ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 October 2003 at 2:41am
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CDOSYS is the name of the CDO component you call for emailing in ASP. CDONTS is a bit buggy in formatting emails but as it uses the local SMTP server instead of giving the SMTP server with CDOSYS it means that if the SMTP server goes down you don't get errors. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 03 November 2003 at 10:07pm
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I decided to go with CDOSYS since it was already installed. I forgot that I had to specify a smtp server and surprisingly it gave no errors when I sent an e-mail from the forum!!! The only reason why I figured out e-mail wasn't going out was I was no longer receiving any e-mail from the forum (i.e. topic subscriptions). The forum "pretended" to send the e-mail even though it wasn't. Luckily I was extensively testing it after moving to the new server otherwise I might not have noticed for awhile. Also, CDOSYS turned out to be better since we turned off the built-in SMTP server in IIS and went with a different mail server software on the same server (for the time being). CDONTS and the other mail server can't run on the same server at the same time (port conflict). But CDOSYS works just fine. Thanks for answering my questions. ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
