System.Web.Mail problem

[Goran Djuranovic]

Hi all,
When sending mail from within a windows service I get this exception:
"The specified procedure could not be found"
at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly)
at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
at System.Web.Mail.CdoSysHelper.Send(MailMessage message)
at System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send(MailMessage message)

It works fine on my development box, but not my other box. Development box is WinXP Pro SP2, "other" box is WinXP Pro SP1.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Goran

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi Goran,

System.Web.Mail from .NET 1.1 internally uses CDOSYS to send mail. We need
to first verify that whether CDOSYS works or not.

Let's create a simple VBScript file, name it as "SendCdosysMail.vbs":

VFrom=WScript.Arguments(0)
VTo=WScript.Arguments(1)
VSubject=WScript.Arguments(2)
VBody=WScript.Arguments(3)
VSMTPServer=WScript.Arguments(4)

Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
objMessage.Subject = VSubject
objMessage.Sender = VFrom
objMessage.To = VTo
objMessage.TextBody = VBody
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/confi
guration/sendusing") = 2

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/confi
guration/smtpserver") = VSMTPServer

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/confi
guration/smtpserverport") = 25
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update

objMessage.Send
wscript.echo "Message sent"

Then try to run this script on your "other box" with following command:

cscript.exe SendCdosysMail.vbs "fr**@email.com" "[e-mail]"
"subject" "body" "localhost"

Please tell me the result or exact error message it displays.

From several reported cases of this error message, it seems related to
corrupt MDAC installation; you may need to repair or reinstall MDAC:

#How to check for MDAC version
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301202

By the way, if you're using .NET 2.0, it's recommended to use
System.Net.Mail; for more info, please refer to
http://www.systemwebmail.com and http://www.systemnetmail.com

Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wa****@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Goran Djuranovic]

Hi Walter,
My SMTP service was messed up. I figured out, after a number of unsuccessful
tries of re-installation of SMTP service (I was getting some weird COM error
messages), I would "repair" Windows. After that I re-installed SMTP service
successfully, and everything worked fine. I did try running your script
afterwards and it worked fine.

Thanks
Goran
"Walter Wang [MSFT]" <wa****@online.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:8T**************@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...

Hi Goran,

System.Web.Mail from .NET 1.1 internally uses CDOSYS to send mail. We need
to first verify that whether CDOSYS works or not.

Let's create a simple VBScript file, name it as "SendCdosysMail.vbs":

VFrom=WScript.Arguments(0)
VTo=WScript.Arguments(1)
VSubject=WScript.Arguments(2)
VBody=WScript.Arguments(3)
VSMTPServer=WScript.Arguments(4)

Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
objMessage.Subject = VSubject
objMessage.Sender = VFrom
objMessage.To = VTo
objMessage.TextBody = VBody
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/confi
guration/sendusing") = 2

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/confi
guration/smtpserver") = VSMTPServer

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/confi
guration/smtpserverport") = 25
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update

objMessage.Send
wscript.echo "Message sent"

Then try to run this script on your "other box" with following command:

cscript.exe SendCdosysMail.vbs "fr**@email.com" "[e-mail]"
"subject" "body" "localhost"

Please tell me the result or exact error message it displays.

From several reported cases of this error message, it seems related to
corrupt MDAC installation; you may need to repair or reinstall MDAC:

#How to check for MDAC version
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301202

By the way, if you're using .NET 2.0, it's recommended to use
System.Net.Mail; for more info, please refer to
http://www.systemwebmail.com and http://www.systemnetmail.com

Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wa****@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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