asp nuggets: send email and insert line feeds into email
Posted on: November 5, 2007
- In: asp
- 4 Comments
In case you find yourself (as I have on a recent project) delving into the seedy underbelly of a server-side you’re neither familiar with or particularly fond of (*cough*ASP*cough*), here’s a couple of gems which may help you out.
ASP has plenty of gotcha’s (as does any programming language to be sure) so here are solutions to a couple of my common problems.
Sending email
Actually pretty simple, but I can across a couple of different ways of doing it. This is the way that actually worked.
Set myMail=CreateObject("CDO.Message")
myMail.Subject="I de best"
myMail.From="webserver@mydomain.org.nz"
myMail.To="billy@johnsue.net"
myMail.TextBody="Behold! The email content!."
myMail.Send
set myMail=nothing
Inserting line feeds
In order to stop your email text from loking like the blancmange of doom, you’ll need to insert some line break / line feed characters. I spent an inordinate amount of time looking for how to achieve this. (Is there anything like php.net for asp? Some of the online ‘documentation’ leaves a lot to be desired…)
Return (VB ‘carriage return’):
myMessage = “hello.” & vbCr & “My name is Trevor”
Return and New Line (VB ‘carriage return and line feed’):
myMessage = “Hello, my name is Trevor” & vbCrLf & “What be your name?”
4 Responses to "asp nuggets: send email and insert line feeds into email"
July 19, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Hi Everybody,
I have a problem similar to the one you showed.
I’m using “php” and trying to concatenate some variables to create the message on an email. But I would like to have a line feed to separate the data.
For example:
$message=’Client Name: ‘.$name.’Phone: ‘.$phone.’Fax: ‘.$fax;
I just need to know what code and how to include it in the instruction.
I’ll appreciate any help on this!
M@rko,
This should work:
$message=’Client Name: ‘.$name.”\r”
$message .= ’Phone: ‘.$phone..”\r”
$message .= ’Fax: ‘.$fax;
\r = carriage return
\n = new line
(you can use them in combination too)
🙂
Paul
January 6, 2012 at 4:52 am
It seems that just adding a “\n” in the string does the trick for me.
paul bennett 
July 2, 2008 at 8:17 pm
This is very usefull, thanks!
Not even w3schools make any mention of this on their site under the asp mail section ->
http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_send_email.asp