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Using JMail with ASP pages: 

JMail by Dimac allows programmers to easily send e-mail with just a few lines of ASP code. Simply set a few JMail properties and send the message.

The following ASP example illustrates the most commonly-used features of the JMail program which is already installed on your Windows NT hosting account:
  1. First, initialize the JMail program...
      
  2. Set JMail = Server.CreateObject("JMail.SMTPMail")
      
  3. Next, define your SMTP server & port address...
    (note that you just need to use the following line:
      JMail.ServerAddress = "127.0.0.1:25" 
      (This just means, use the local server on port #25 - don't change this setting.)
      
  4. The JMail Sender property is what you set to let your recipient know who the e-mail is from, for example...
      JMail.Sender = "mailbot@yourdomain.com"
      
  5. The Subject property allows you to fill in the subject of the e-mail message you're sending...
      JMail.Subject = "Info you requested..."
      
  6. To add recipients to the e-mail message, you use the AddRecipient method. Note that it does not require the use of an = sign!
      JMail.AddRecipient "user@somehost.com"

    You can keep adding recipients until you're done...
      JMail.AddRecipient "joe@blow.com"
      JMail.AddRecipient "shag@austinbaby.com"
      

  7. You can also add recipients to what would normally be the CC: and BCC: fields of your e-mail, as follows (respectively)...
      JMail.AddRecipientCC "boss@job.com"
      JMail.AddRecipientBCC "secret@squirrel.com"
      
  8. If you want to make the To: address more personal, you can use the AddRecipientEx method to add not only the person's e-mail address, but their name, too...
      JMail.AddRecipientEx "lame@address.com", "Sparky O'Malley"
      
  9. The body of your message can be set in a number of ways. To set the body explicitly, you can just do something like this...
      JMail.Body = "Thanks for signing up!"

    Or you might need to add text later after a generic greeting, in which case you'd append text to the body like this...
      JMail.Body = JMail.Body & "Have a nice day!"
      

  10. You can also append text with the AppendText method...again, note the lack of an = sign here because you're using a method, not setting a property...
      JMail.AppendText "Have a nice day!"

    If you have some text stored in a file, you can also use the contents of that file to set the body of the message, as follows...
      JMail.AppendBodyFromFile "c:\webserver\yourdomain\htdocs\mytext.txt"
      

  11. If your message is really important, you may want to set the message priority with the Priority property. When setting this property, remember that 1 is highest priority (urgent) and 5 is lowest priority...
      JMail.Priority = 1
      
  12. You can even add attachments to your message. As with the AddRecipient method, this does not use = signs and can be called as many times as you have attachments...
      JMail.AddAttachment "c:\webserver\yourdomain\htdocs\pix\myphoto.jpg"
      JMail.AddAttachment "c:\webserver\yourdomain\htdocs\faq\faq1.txt"
      
  13. Once you've set everything up, it's just a matter of sending the message...
      JMail.Execute

 

Example Form

Here is a very simple example, without all the comments, that takes data from a form and sends a simple message to the user: The code must begin with <% and end with %>

<%

Set JMail = Server.CreateObject("JMail.SMTPMail")

JMail.ServerAddress = "127.0.0.1:25"

JMail.Sender = "mailbot@yourdomain.com"

JMail.Subject = "Sign-up acknowledgement..."

JMail.AddRecipientEx Request.Form("EMailAddress"),

Request.Form("UserName") JMail.Body = "Thanks for signing up for our new

online service!" JMail.Execute

%>

Complete details on JMail can be found at the links below.

Jmail reference manual HTML format (Has Examples)

Jmail reference PDF format