Conquering the beast

Well my attempt to get a working staff contact form for warealtor.org was successful. Albeit not without a little adventure. Till today (or more like yesterday) I never really did anything with classic ASP outside of doing simple file includes. But I was able to taste victory after a few losing battles.

The tutorial I was following used a email function called CDONTS that I found out was deprecated in Windows Server 2003. However the variable structure used to hide email addresses was exactly what the doctor ordered. I’d already adapted this along with a select box holding staff email addresses in my HTML form. So I researched the way Win Server 2k3 likes to handle email and found a built in function called CDOSYS. I figured out how to properly deploy that from of all places w3schools.com. So I massaged (the term I like to use to annoy Erika) the script with this knowledge and…

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