<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 10, 2007, at 2:42 AM, C.J. Scheppers wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hello fellow Perl Mongers!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I am trying to write a perl call to a web host's CDOSYS email<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">interface.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The web host provides a visual basic script to do this<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">but since everything I have written for the site is in perl, I'd like<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to write the email call in perl, too.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>This will be an auto-responder<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">when someone completes a form.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I succeeded (with help from an<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">on-line article which I cannot find again)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>in adapting perl for a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">call to CDONTS on another web host for a different client.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>But this<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">time, it's CDOSYS on the present client's web host.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I can send one<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">email with the code at the bottom of the page, but only one, and then<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have to wait many hours before another one can be sent.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It doesn't<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">seem to be reliable.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Sending two emails in succession (one to buyer<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and one to seller) results in no emails sent at all.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Anybody have a comment on this?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Point me in a direction?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I searched<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the web for info, found hundreds of examples of VB and CDOSYS but<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">none for perl and CDOSYS.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It's even hard to find useful info on<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">CDOSYS.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Perl reads so well and other languages are so bizarre!</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><B><A href="http://tinyurl.com/ynv98g">http://tinyurl.com/ynv98g</A></B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I haven't worked with win32 OLE for awhile, but it reading VB -> Perl was very similar.</DIV></BODY></HTML>