NEWBIE: How to create a log file

[Tomas Vera]

Hello All,
I'm new to ASP and am having problems with CDONTS.NewMail not always
delivering my mail. Unfortunately, it always seems to fail on a
particular recipient, so he's getting steamed!

In my code, I create two e-mails, one to an end-user, and one to a
sales rep. The e-mail to the user always succeeds, but the email to
the sales reps fails about 15-25% of the time. I'm trying to debug the
ASP page, and I figure using a log file may be the best way.

I want to test the sales rep's newMail object and write to a log file
when it fails (IsNull()), but I don't know how to create a log file in
ASP. Example:

Dim newMail
newMail = Server.CreateObject ("CDONTS.NewMail")
if(IsNull(newMail) then
' Code to write to a log file goes here
' Record the e-mail info for re-send later
' What goes here
else
' Code to create the mail components goes here
newMail.Send
newMail = nothing
end if

I know this is super-simple and just need a quick code snippet.

Thanks
-tomas

 

[Tom B]

Set newMail =
rather than
newMail=

 

[Tomas Vera]

Set newMail =
rather than
newMail=

Sorry, bad typing. I am using the "Set=" notation.
Now, about that log file......

 

[TomB]

You could do this......
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/990930.htm

but that seems like a lot of work. I assume you just want to have a record
of failed messages in a text file.

Make sure you have write permissions on a directory then
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_ref_textstream.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/met_writeline.asp
That ought to get you started.

 

[Tomas Vera]

Thanks!
That's exactly what I was looking for.

-tomas (posting via some web site!)

 

[dlbjr]

Tom,

Just curious -
what email clients are they using?

CDONTS email settings by default will not push to a Lotus Notes Client, but
will work with many others like outlook.

Here are settings to send email to a Lotus Domino Server.

Set MailObj = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
MailObj.MailFormat = 0
MailObj.BodyFormat = 0
MailObj.From = "me"
MailObj.To = "you"
MailObj.Subject = strSubject
MailObj.Body = strMemo
MailObj.Send

-dlbjr

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