VP-ASP Email Setup
Email is an important feature of VP-ASP Shopping Cart. By default VP-ASP will automatically e-mail both the merchant and the customer when an order has been completed. Both receive extensive details about the order including prices, name and address and products ordered.

E-mail Support 
VP-ASP has built in support for  a number of e-mail interfaces to your E-mail system. VP-ASP does not write directly to your mail server. It needs an interface. We support the most common ones.  There is no way we can tell where the message goes after it is handed to the interface.
We cannot tell if it ever leaves your system or not . In order for VP-ASP to be able to e-mail, one of these software components must be on your server.

The supported interfaces for Windows are: ASPMAIL, CDONTS, JMAIL, ASPEMAIL, CDOSYS. 
Under Unix, VP-ASP uses ONLY the SUN ASP CDONTS emulation. It does not use native Unix mailing.

ASPMAIL is a third party product.

JMAIL is a free software package

CDONTS is a free Microsoft add-on for Windows NT/2000

CDOSYS is a free Microsoft add-on for Windows 2003

ASPEMAIL is another free product 


Testing E-mail 
Our diagnostic tool diag_dbtest.asp (shopdbtest.asp in previous releases) can be used to help you determine what is installed on your system. It will send a 1 line message if it works

Configuring e-mail 
E-mail needs to be configured by specifying a few options in the VP-ASP configuration file. The information that needs to be configured is:

Your e-mail address, the subject the customer sees on receiving an e-mail confirmation, 
The e-mail system on your web hosting company. These are set-up in the VP-ASP Shop Configuration under Merchant Details

xemail[email protected]
Merchant e-mail address 

xemailname=Merchant name
The name of your store

xemailsubject=Shopping Cart Order
Subject of confirmation e-mail

xemailsystem=mail.yoursystem.com
Your web host's e-mail system.There is no standard naming for your e-mail system it could be smtp.abc.com. Check with your NT/Windows administrator or web hosting company.

xemailtype=CDONTS
Mailing interface; CDONTS, ASPMAIL, ASPEMAIL, JMAIL, OCXMAIL, CDOSYS

Other ASP Interfaces
Other e-mail interfaces that are compatible with Active Server Page programs may be integrated into VP-ASP. They must be able to be called from an Active Server Page program. Normally this means that are implemented with a DLL and have a COM interface. VP-ASP cannot run EXE files.

If you want us to help integrate another interface besides  then provide us with a working sample of Active Server Page code that works with your e-mail program.