Re: CDONTS strangeness

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On Tue, 17 May 2005 09:34:05 -0700, Stimp <ren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I'm trying to send a mail using CDONTS with a .FROM email
>address that doesn't exist (like bob@xxxxxxxxxxx), but it won't send
>the mail unless I put a valid .FROM email address (i.e. of an email
>address that exists)
>
>The mails I try to send on the Windows 2000 server are moved into the
>mailroot/Badmail folder as spam.. so this would seem to be a built-in
>spam prevention tool that CDONTS employs.
>
>This would be fine, if it always worked, but sometimes perfectly correct
>email addresses don't work either.
>
>Is there any way to disable this spam-prevention so that I can send
>emails no matter what the .FROM email address is?
>
>Any info would be great!

There is no SPAM function in SMTP. Badmail is where mail that isn't
correctly addressed or formatted gets dropped. Check the logs to see
what may be going on, look at the .BDR file for reasons, and see:

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2254
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2268

Then stop using CDONTS and use CDO instead.

Jeff
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