Need help sending email using Exchange

Can someone please provide an example of code needed (or point me to a thread) that I could use to send email from a Scheduled Task. The task runs Excel and Access routines and I would like to send email notifications to certain people regarding job status. We are using Microsoft Exchange on our server. Also, what information do I need to have regarding server name, IP's, etc? This is my first time sending email so please give as much information as you can.

Thank you very much for any help you can provide.

you can automate outlook if the users have it installed and configured

personally i would use cdo.message, which runs in background with no user intervention required, and is available on all machines since win 2000

there is also vbsendmail that is free to download and use

the are many threads, in this and vb6 forum, with full sample code for all of the above

there is also vb6 mapi controls, but would not recommend them to use now, as they require a mapi enabled email client to be installed and configured

Thanks for reply. I am trying to use CDO but I can't get it to work using Exchange; e.g. what do i use for 'smtpserver', 'sendusing', 'smtpserverport'?

you should be able to use the same server and port information from your email client

if you do not set any values for those, it should use your default settings, the same as your default email client

Thanks for trying to help, Pete. I'm not making any progress on this.

Here is the code that works on my desktop, where I'm using Outlook:

Code:

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Email_Subject = "Trying to send email using CDO"
Email_Send_From = "[email protected]"
Email_Send_To = "[email protected]"
Email_Body = "Congratulations!!!! You have successfully sent an e-mail using CDO"

Set CDO_Mail_Object = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
Set CDO_Config = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration")
CDO_Config.Load -1
Set SMTP_Config = CDO_Config.Fields
With SMTP_Config
.Item("......//schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
.Item("......//schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "smtp.charter.net"
.Item("......//schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
.Update
End With
With CDO_Mail_Object
Set .Configuration = CDO_Config
End With
CDO_Mail_Object.Subject = Email_Subject
CDO_Mail_Object.From = Email_Send_From
CDO_Mail_Object.To = Email_Send_To
CDO_Mail_Object.TextBody = Email_Body

CDO_Mail_Object.send

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The error I get in this case is something like: server rejected one or more recipients (8004020F)

'Name' is this case would be my username. I have to email providers, one with Yahoo and another with Charter Communications, my internet provider. I have remote sign on acess to the server but I do not have an email account there. Maybe that's the problem. Also, the server uses Microsoft Exchange and I am accustomed to using Outlook. There are other parameters that CDO uses that may be needed, like server name, port, etc. that I am not sure of. Can you tell me what parameters would be necessary and where on the server I can find them, or what should I ask of the site administrator?

Thanks again for helping.

Ed

More information. I'm learning. If I change the smptserver to the IP of the exchange server, or the server's name, and change both the sendfrom and the sendto to an email address of a person who has an email account on the server, then they do get the email. But when I change either the sendfrom or sendto to any of my own email addresses, then I get the 8004020F - Unable to relay error.

Does that mean that I need to have an email account on the server (which doesn't make sense to me), or do I have to have some other authentication information because I'm asking CDO to send an email on someone else's behalf?

More info. I can now send email on this server from myself (Gmail) to myself. What I need to do is send an email from a person who has an email account on the server to others on the server and to myself.

as you have found out, many (but not all) smtp servers do not allow none registered senders, or spoofing of from email addresses, seems more severs are tightening up on this anyway, so better to say it can not be done anyway, also many ISPs block port 25 so emails can not be sent, through other mail servers that use port 25

if you do not set values for smtp server, port or sender, it should use the default that is used by the default email client, as i do not have an exchange server here i can not test this, but it does work with my ISP smtp server, but as every users settings differ, there would be no guarantee that all would work correctly,
having a special gmail account for your program, for all users, is one work around, but any message sent as reply to: would go back to the gmail account