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Sending mail from CactuShop without using CDO

Item: #320
Date: 31 Oct 2002
Applies to
v4
v5

Question

I don't want to use CDO to send email. What other options do I have?

Answer

CactuShop supports the following components:

Jmail - www.dimac.net
ASPmail - www.serverobjects.com
Persits - www.persits.com (they call their component ASPemail, but we call it Persits to avoid confusion with ASPmail!)

You will need to install these on the server and also remember to set the emailmethod setting in CactuShop to 'ASPmail', 'Jmail' or 'Persits'. Also, you will need to put the address of the SMTP server you wish to send email from in the mailserver config setting.

The 'write' method that is also supported is a test mode that writes email to the screen rather than send it. You should never use this on a live site, only switch it on for test purposes.

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