Send ASP Email VIA GMail

This is a one page self submitting form that you can edit to look however you want.
This has some very slick built in server side form validation.
This sends the email using CDOSYS using your Gmail Account and POP3.
You can use this code on as many web sites as you like.
This is pure ASP source code so you can add or remove fields pretty easily by looking at what is already there. This code is EXTREMELY clean and easy to follow along with.

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Also Check out our Self Submitting Contact Us Form that does not use GMail

This code works with the CJWSoft Captcha System

Click here to try the online demo

Purpose: The purpose of using GMail to send emails is as follows.

Various email servers on the Internet are taking a lot of precautions to eliminate spam. They are checking Open Relay Lists, Verifying MX Records, Incorrectly listing your IP or email server as a spammer.. etc etc

This makes it hard to send email from ASP and a webserver and make sure the email is actually delivered.

By using a GMail account to send the email and not your own server or your ISP's server you are increasing the chance that the emails actually get delivered. This is because GMail has done everything possible to make sure their server and everything related to them is set up correctly and that other servers accept email sent from GMail.

The other advantage of this is that if you do not have your own email server you can easily send emails from ASP Code.

Now, because we are sending an email to our own GMail account using this code worrying about the email not getting delivered is not so important. It is when you start sending emails via ASP to other people's email address's that you benefit from that. That being said, if you are decent with ASP you can also adapt the code in this Contact US form to use all throughout your site so anytime you send email from ASP code you will be using your GMail account to do so. Ensuring your customers get your emails. I did the hard work figuring out the code to make this all work. Dont worry about that right now, just follow the directions below and get the contact us form working and sending emails. After that you should be able to adapt the GMail emailing code for other purposes.

I will also like to add that you do not actually have to send the results of the contact form to your GMail email account. By editing one line of code you can send the Contact Form results to any email address.Another REALLY COOL thing is that all email sent via GMail from your ASP code actually shows up in the sent box when you log into the GMail web interface. This gives you a nice record of all emails sent by your server. GMail gives you about 3 gb worth of email storage too which is plenty.

 
Directions...

Get a GMail account.. it's a beta program so you have to get an invite to get an account Search google for info on that.. Also, if I still have invites left I can invite you if you can't get one on your own.

Once you get a GMail account and it works log in to it.

Go to Settings: Forwarding and POP

Enable POP for all mail

Your are now ready to use this Contact Us script..

' Edit these 3 values accordingly in the "contact_us.asp" file
smtpserver = "smtp.gmail.com"
youremail = "youremail@gmail.com"
yourpassword = "yourpassword"

If you run this script on a Windows IIS Webserver supporting ASP and CDOSYS your contact us form should be working and
sending emails using your GMail account.

Requirements

You must be a running Windows XP/20002003 server with support for Active Server Pages and CDOSYS. CDOSYS is on all these server versions by default.

You must have a Gmail Email Account. Port 465 must not be blocked on the webserver. That is the port GMAIL uses to do SLL via POP3. On some GODaddy servers they seem to be blocking this port and other Hosting Companies may as well. You never really know and it is not my responsibility if that is the case.