Hi,

I see lots of Search engine entries for this but nobody ever 'really' explains it through.

What I know is this:

1. To send an email one needs:
    SMTP Server Name/ IP Address.
    SMTP User Name & Password. 
    In some cases, the SMTP Username and Password are the same as the POP3 Logon details, in others, it's required and different.

2. In the DNN Host Settings page, under the 'SMTP Server Settings' are entries for the SMTP Server, Username and Password.
Additionally there is a checkbox set requesting either 'Anonymous', 'Basic' or NTLM

I guess that Anonymous relates to those SMTP Servers that don't require any username or passsword [Are there any? ....Odd]. I note also that whilst the short help suggests that Anonymous is the default, that checkbox isn't [by default] checked.

Basic and NTLM aren't described in either the documentation, the online help or the DNN 3 Book .... So I just switch between them to see which one might work.... It would be nice to understand what I was doing...

Several sources suggest that entering 'localhost' in the SMTP Server textbox will translate to the 127.0.0.0 address [ie the server itself ] and that the OS settings should take over and manage the link to the SMTP Server.

Other postings suggest that the host and portal admin email address should be 'valid addresses' and by this I think that what is meant is that the email addresses shouldn't require a relay to other SMTP Servers [So if you're sending from www.Klimer.com, the email address should be Ivy@Klimer.com...]

So I've done all this... and I still get " Could not access 'CDO.Message' "

when I press the Test link in the Host Admin page.........

I was a bit alarmed at one set of postings that suggested that there was a core code error in 3.1.x onwards. hope this isn't the case.

ANy suggestions?

TIA

Duncan.