IIS and SMTP - Viewing CDONTS generated email on XP for a demo.

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Viewing CDONTS generated email on XP for a demo.

Cole Trickle

2005-06-15, 6:10 pm

Hello...
I have an VB Script that uses CDONTS to create emails. This is working
happily and placing the emails in the Inetpub\mailroot\Pickup folder.
Is there anything I can use that will allow me to read the emails that end
up in the Inetpub\mailroot\Drop folder?
The reason is that I want to demonstrate our product on a standalone Windows
XP Pro machine and I cannot get Outlook Express to 'connect' to localhost or
127.0.0.1 etc.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Many thanks.
Lee

Jeff Cochran

2005-06-16, 7:52 am

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:27:39 +0100, "Cole Trickle"
<cole_trickle30@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hello...
>I have an VB Script that uses CDONTS to create emails. This is working
>happily and placing the emails in the Inetpub\mailroot\Pickup folder.
>Is there anything I can use that will allow me to read the emails that end
>up in the Inetpub\mailroot\Drop folder?
>The reason is that I want to demonstrate our product on a standalone Windows
>XP Pro machine and I cannot get Outlook Express to 'connect' to localhost or
>127.0.0.1 etc.
>Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Outlook needs a POP or MAPI server, which XP doesn't have. Either
install a third party one, or simply open the files in the pickup
folder in Notepad.

Jeff

P C

2005-07-01, 2:48 am

If you put a desktop shortcut to the folder and open the folder after
the message is generared and bofr it is move you cn see the messages on
that folder. I thnk you will see for each mesaage 2 fiels with the same
name excpt the exnsion. if you click on the one with .eml extention it
wil open in outlook expres. If you disable/diconnet the internet
connection the mesages will be moved to aiffrent folder (queue ?) to try
to deliver later.

....PC

Cole Trickle wrote:

> Hello...
> I have an VB Script that uses CDONTS to create emails. This is working
> happily and placing the emails in the Inetpub\mailroot\Pickup folder.
> Is there anything I can use that will allow me to read the emails that end
> up in the Inetpub\mailroot\Drop folder?
> The reason is that I want to demonstrate our product on a standalone Windows
> XP Pro machine and I cannot get Outlook Express to 'connect' to localhost or
> 127.0.0.1 etc.
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> Many thanks.
> Lee
>
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