Converting SMTP Mailer to CDOSYS in classic ASP for contact form - asp-classic

Question

I am currently in the process of updating many test sites on an old server so that they won't break when the old server gets discontinued in the next couple months. The contact form for one site in particular is already broken. When a user clicks on submit after filling in their information, they are presented with this error:
Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 800401f3'
Server.CreateObject Failed
/contactsubmit.asp, line 79
800401f3
Set Mailer = Server.CreateObject("SMTPsvg.Mailer")
Mailer.FromName = "Web Visitor"
If request("email") <> "" then
Mailer.replyto = request("email")
Else
Mailer.replyto = "noEmailEntered#domain.com"
End If
Mailer.FromAddress = "my#email.com"
Mailer.RemoteHost = "hostserver"
If TempTest = TRUE then
Else
Mailer.AddRecipient siteOwner, ContactEmail
If ContactCC <> "" then
Mailer.AddCC siteOwner, ContactCC
End If
End If
If DesignerEmail <> "" then
Mailer.AddBCC DesignerEmail, DesignerEmail
End If
Mailer.Subject = siteOwner & " Contact Form"
Mailer.ContentType = "text/html"
Mailer.BodyText = strBody
If Mailer.SendMail then
response.redirect "contact.asp?sent=yes"
Else
response.redirect "contact.asp?sent=no"
End If
I was told that SMTP isn't the way that emails need to get sent anymore so I tried changing it all to CDOSYS. But the funny thing is, there are a lot more sites on this server that I have tested using the same SMTP code that work.
Changes using CDOSYS:
Set Mailer = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
Mailer.From = "Web Visitor <my#email.com>"
If request("email") <> "" then
Mailer.ReplyTo = request("email")
Else
Mailer.ReplyTo = "noEmailEntered#domain.com"
End If
Mailer.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "hostserver"
If TempTest = TRUE then
Else
Mailer.AddRecipient siteOwner, ContactEmail
If ContactCC <> "" then
Mailer.Cc siteOwner, ContactCC
End If
End If
If DesignerEmail <> "" then
Mailer.Bcc DesignerEmail, DesignerEmail
End If
Mailer.Subject = siteOwner & " Contact Form"
Mailer.HTMLBody = strBody
If Mailer.Send then
response.redirect "contact.asp?sent=yes"
Else
response.redirect "contact.asp?sent=no"
End If
But now I get this error:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01b6'
Object doesn't support this property or method: 'Mailer.AddRecipient'
/contactsubmit.asp, line 89
I have tried changing it to Mailer.Add and to Mailer.AddAddress with no luck. Does anyone know how I can get around this error and hopefully get this to work? I've never worked with mail servers before so I apologize if this is an easy fix, but I've searched for the past 3 hours and can't come up with a good alternative to .AddRecipient.

Answer 1

The CDO.Message object simply has the string properties of To, Cc and Bcc to which you assign a standard semi-colon delimited list of smtp email addresses for example:
"Joe Bloggs" <joeB#somecompany.com>; "Fred Smith" <fSmith#smiths.co.uk>

Answer 2

Try to execute the below simplest way of sending mail using CDO and then take the relevant fields from it and apply to your script:
Set myMail=CreateObject("CDO.Message")
myMail.Subject="Sending email with CDO"
myMail.From="mymail#mydomain.com"
myMail.To="someone#somedomain.com"
myMail.TextBody="This is a message."
myMail.Send
set myMail=nothing
As you can see the way to add recipient is like this:
myMail.To="someone#somedomain.com"
You can see more examples here
Hope this helps.