Send mail using Outlook

[cathiec]

Hello,

I want to send an email via Outlook 2003 (SP1) from an asp.net page. I have
tried using the SMTP classes as recommended by Microsoft, but the environment
of my client, the email messages never arrive when sent using this method;
hense using MS Otlook on the wenserver. The code is below:

Dim oApp As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application
oApp = New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application
' Create a new MailItem.
Dim oMsg As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem
oMsg =
CType(oApp.CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem), Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem)
oMsg.Subject = "Hello!!!"
oMsg.Body = "Hello World"
oMsg.To = "me@gmail.com"
oMsg.Send()



The code runs fine in the Visual Studio 2005 development web server, but a
security error is thrown on publishing to iis 6 (on windows server sp1):
Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID
{0006F03A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed with HRESULT: 0x80070005(Access
is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))).
Can anyone advise?

 

[ca8msm]

If you want to launch outlook on the server, you'll need to go to the Component Services and add launch/execute rights for the ASPNET (or Network Service if it is a win 2003 box) in the DCOM section.

I'm not sure why your first method failed (maybe you don't have an SMTP Server installed?) but I wouldn't recommend using outlook to send your emails from an ASP.NET application.


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[avanderlaan]

Certain firewall and anti-virus products can block SMTP sending from "client" machines. If you are running in a corporate IT environment you might ask them for advice.