asp+html email

[jrthor2]

I have an application that I am sending out html emails. Is there a way to do include files in an email? For example, in my website, I use:

<!--#include virtual="/inc/footer.asp"-->

to include my footer, header, etc. I'd like to put a footer and header on my emails the same way, but was wondering if I could use an include of somekind so that if I have other applications that send out emails, I could use the same include file so if I made a change to the email footer, I wouldn't have to update all my different email code, just the include file?

Thanks!

[jrthor2]

Ok, I've been looking at getting this to work all weekend. I an using CDO, and I read about sending an html email that sends a web page, so I tried to implement it. I have my code that generates the email, that looks like this:

Set objMail = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")

'Set key properties
objMail.From = sName & "<" & sFrom & ">"
objMail.To = sTo
objMail.Subject= sSubject
'send email from webpage
objMail.CreateMHTMLBody "http://www.site.com/online_store/downloadable/download.asp?pin=" & pin

'Send the email
objMail.Send

'Clean-up mail object
Set objMail = Nothing

When It tries to send the mail, I get this error:

CDO.Message.1 error '800c0005'

The system cannot locate the resource specified.

Which points to the line that has objMail.CreateMHTMLBody "http://www.site.com/online_store/downloadable/download.asp?pin=" & pin

The file is there on the server, so I'm not sure why it says it cannot locate the resource specified??

Thanks

[jrthor2]

can anyone help here?

[jrthor2]

anyone, please????

[buntine]

I assume the parameter expects a local file apposed to a remote one. Try a physical path on your server.

Andrew.

[jrthor2]

actually, I have tried using 127.0.0.1 and localhost, but that didn't work.

[jrthor2]

I have tried this as well (I got the path using the Server.MapPath):

\\shared.hosting.local\nfs\cust\1\86\18\681681\web\online_store\downloadable\download.asp

No luck though.

[Chikara]

what is www.mysite.com?

If you are running a webserver that doesn't have a domain(www.somehost.com) type in your ip. If you are just testing things out at your home pc try the following. You can get your ip by going doing this.

Start -> run
cmd
ipconfig


http://123.22.22.11/something/page.asp

or your localhost.

http://127.0.0.1/something/page.asp

[jrthor2]

www.mysite.com would be my website address. I am not running my own webserver. I'm trying to send a dynamic email that gets the contents from a page on my site.