Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/18/08 04:39

Gilles Ganault wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:03:32 -0500, Jerry Stuckle
> <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Why on earth would you need the address of their SMTP server?
>
> Because it was easier to suck connect to their SMTP server with the
> MSWinsock control and send a few lines of code, than it is to format
> data and send them to a remote PHP script with the POST method.
>

And if their server is properly configured, the email will stop right
there. You can't do it with my SMTP server, for instance. In fact, if
you try to use a MSWinsock control on my system, I'm gone - never to return.

>> Even if you had it, you wouldn't be able to send a message through it if it were
>> correctly configured.
>
> Why not? I've already done it before.
>

If it's correctly configured, you will not be able to do so.

>> But if you want form mail, why not just do it all in VBScript. That's
>> what I do in the couple of ASP sites I have.
>
> I don't want to use VBScript.
>

You're already using VBScript. That seems to be the more likely
candidate, rather than try to mix and match. But whatever...

> For those interested, here's some code I found that seems to do the
> job:
>
> =================
> <?php
> foreach ($_POST as $k => $v) {
> if(!isset($_POST[$k]) || !strlen($_POST[$k])) {
> echo "$k not set!<p>";
> exit;
> }
> }
>
> $fp = fopen ("stuff_received.txt", "w");
> fputs ($fp,$_POST['etab']);
> fputs ($fp,$_POST['sujet']);
> fputs ($fp,$_POST['message']);
> fclose($fp);
> ?>
> =================
>

Which does nothing with email.

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