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Message from discussion "method '~' of object '~' failed " with CDONTS

Tony Proctor

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More options Jun 9 2005, 12:31 pm

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.mail, microsoft.public.mail.misc, microsoft.public.internet.mail

From: "Tony Proctor" <tony_proctor@aimtechnology_NoMoreSPAM_.com>

Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:31:36 +0100

Local: Thurs, Jun 9 2005 12:31 pm

Subject: Re: "method '~' of object '~' failed " with CDONTS

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Just for the archives...

I identified two big causes for this error message, both of which were
relevant to our problem reports:

1) The LogonSMTP method requires a valid email address for the sender. If
this is blank for any reason then this error message results.

2) CDONTS requires a local SMTP Service, and this comes as part of IIS.
Hence, trying to use CDONTS on a machine without IIS results in this same
error.

Tony Proctor

"Tony Proctor" <tony_proctor@aimtechnology_NoMoreSPAM_.com> wrote in message

news:#SiPORQZFHA.2756@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

> We have a Windows Service that uses CDONTS to send email. This generally
> seems to work fine, but we've had reports of the above error occasionally
> being generated, and we haven't yet figured out why.

> The Service runs under a specific domain account, rather than LocalSystem.

> At first sight, it sounds similar to Q235541, although this specifically
> talks about CDONTS being used under MTS, and specifically under Windows NT
> 4.0 SP3 and Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1. Also, one of its suggested
> workarounds is to "Associate the Windows NT account running the MTS
package
> to a running service that is run automatically at startup", which is
pretty
> much what our configuration involves anyway.

> Can anyone suggest any other possible causes for this error message?

> Tony Proctor

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