Re: cdonts stopped working

From: Dan D. (DanD_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:43:03 -0800

It had to do with the spam software we have. We removed the software from two
servers and as soon as we rebooted, all of the mail in the "queue" folder was
sent.

Thanks for your help and suggestions. I'll keep them for future reference.

"Kristofer Gafvert" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you save a properly formated file in the pickup folder, and this is not
> being sent to the receipient, then it is not cdonts that is not working,
> but your SMTP server.
>
> Please check the logs suggested by Bernard.
>
> Was any of the patches related to IIS/SMTP? How does your spam software
> work? Could the upgrade of this software have caused this? Have you tried
> to contact the company for this software, maybe they have heard of this
> before?
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Kristofer Gafvert
> www.gafvert.info - My Articles and help
> www.ilopia.com
>
>
> Dan D. wrote:
>
> > We upgraded our spam software this weekend and put some patches on all
> of the
> > servers and then we noticed that CDONTS had stopped working.
> >
> > We're using Win2000 and Win2003 on various servers. I realize that CDONTS
> > isn't supported anymore but it's been working and we haven't had a
> chance to
> > change our code yet.
> >
> > When I put a test file in inetpub\mailroot\pickup nothing happens. The
> SMTP
> > service is running and I registered cdonts.dll again. Any ideas what
> might be
> > going on?
> >
> > Thanks,
>

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