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Ben wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> Can anyone help! I am trying to put together a basic cookie in JavaScript.
> The cookie part of the script it working perfectly, no problems there.
> However after the cookie has been executed I want the script to send an
> email using CDONTS. This is where I am having problems.
> 
> I only want the email to be sent if the cookie is executed ie if it exists.
> Currently nothing is working, if I take out the email side of the script the
> cookie works, but I need both running.
> 
> Any ideas where I am going wrong?
> 


Yeah, using server side commands like Server.CreateObject with a 
client-side script.
If you have CDONTS, you have ASP. Use that. Server-side VBScript or 
JScript is much better for mail than a client-side language that 
requires someone have an e-mail client installed and associated with 
their browser.


Try the following, tested in IIS/Win2K/IE6 successfully (modify the from and to addresses appropriately).

HTH
kaeli

<%@ LANGUAGE="JSCRIPT"%>
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>test </title>
</head>
<body>

<%
//page to go to if cookie exists
go_to = "software.htm";

//number of days cookie lives for
num_days = 1;
function ged(noDays){
     var today = new Date();
     var expr = new Date(today.getTime() + noDays*24*60*60*1000);
     return  expr.toGMTString();
}

function readCookie(cookieName){
     var start = Request.Cookies(cookieName);
     if (start == ""){
         Response.Cookies("seenit")="yes; expires=" + ged(num_days);
     } else {
         Response.Redirect(go_to);
     }
}

readCookie("seenit");

// now send the email using CDONTS

var sendmailMsg = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail");
sendmailMsg.From = "email@email.com";
sendmailMsg.To = "mail@mail.com";
sendmailMsg.subject = "Subject";
sendmailMsg.body = "Body";
sendmailMsg.send();
%>
</body>
</html>