Email Tool...having problems..Please help..

[Irfan Akram]

Hi People,

I am tryint to use the facilities of System.Web.Mail in order to implement
an email sending facility in my web-based application.

I get this error.

An error occurred: System.Web.HttpException: Could not access 'CDO.Message'
object. ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been
thrown by the target of an invocation. ---

Do I need to have a smtp server running on my pc before I can implement the
email facility ?

Please Help,

Thanks,

I..A

[Andy Sutorius]

Irfan,

Have a look at this, http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/4.2.2.aspx

I also ran into this error. The problem lies in the smtp server name you are
using. Are you using localhost as the smtp server name?

Andy

"Irfan Akram" <Ir********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:79**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi People,

I am tryint to use the facilities of System.Web.Mail in order to implement
an email sending facility in my web-based application.

I get this error.

An error occurred: System.Web.HttpException: Could not access 'CDO.Message' object. ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---

Do I need to have a smtp server running on my pc before I can implement the email facility ?

Please Help,

Thanks,

I..A

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

Hi Irfan,

Is there a file on your system called Cdosys.dll? That's a COM control that
Web.Mail uses.

Ken

"Irfan Akram" <Ir********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:79**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi People,

I am tryint to use the facilities of System.Web.Mail in order to implement
an email sending facility in my web-based application.

I get this error.

An error occurred: System.Web.HttpException: Could not access
'CDO.Message'
object. ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has
been
thrown by the target of an invocation. ---

Do I need to have a smtp server running on my pc before I can implement
the
email facility ?

Please Help,

Thanks,

I..A

[Irfan Akram]

Hi Andy,

I'm kinda new at this. Do we already need an smtp server running on the
machine in order to send & receive emails.

thanks for your help,

I..A

[Irfan Akram]

Yes there is. It is in my c:/windows/system32 folder, bu I have not got any
smtp server on my machine.

"Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]" wrote:

Hi Irfan,

Is there a file on your system called Cdosys.dll? That's a COM control that
Web.Mail uses.

Ken

"Irfan Akram" <Ir********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:79**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi People,

I am tryint to use the facilities of System.Web.Mail in order to implement
an email sending facility in my web-based application.

I get this error.

An error occurred: System.Web.HttpException: Could not access
'CDO.Message'
object. ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has
been
thrown by the target of an invocation. ---

Do I need to have a smtp server running on my pc before I can implement
the
email facility ?

Please Help,

Thanks,

I..A

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

What address string are you using for

SmtpMail.SmtpServer

It should be a working mail server that accepts external mail. Doesn't have
to be on your workstation.

Ken

"Irfan Akram" <Ir********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3D**********************************@microsof t.com...

Yes there is. It is in my c:/windows/system32 folder, bu I have not got
any
smtp server on my machine.

"Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]" wrote:

Hi Irfan,

Is there a file on your system called Cdosys.dll? That's a COM control
that
Web.Mail uses.

Ken

"Irfan Akram" <Ir********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:79**********************************@microsof t.com...

> Hi People,
>
> I am tryint to use the facilities of System.Web.Mail in order to
> implement
> an email sending facility in my web-based application.
>
> I get this error.
>
> An error occurred: System.Web.HttpException: Could not access
> 'CDO.Message'
> object. ---> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has
> been
> thrown by the target of an invocation. ---
>
> Do I need to have a smtp server running on my pc before I can implement
> the
> email facility ?
>
> Please Help,
>
> Thanks,
>
> I..A