Follow Up Email Autoresponder Using IIS 6 and ASP

[BlueScr33n]

I was wondering if a standard script, program or method existed for sending out an email automatically when a web site user confirms a sale.

Kind've like how when you purchase airline tickets, in a matter of a few seconds of confirming your purchase, you've got an email in your in box confirming the same as well as listing off your itinerary.

Is this something that's typically done in house, or are there off the shelf products that would allow me to do this?

Not really interested in the web based services that charge monthly/annually for use of this type of service.

Also, if there are resources online that I could read through and possibly develop a low end version, any pointers or links would be appreciated.
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I hope I can provide a bit more clarity in terms of what I'm trying to sketch out.

Currently when an order is placed & submitted, the customer is directed to a page with the details of their order (for printing/saving). What I would like to happen is, upon final order confirmation, certain data that the customer had entered into the required is dumped into a template email that contains the information displayed on the order confirm screen.

Kind've like:

Thank you [name] for your purchase of the following:
* [list item]
* [list item]

Your total amount is [amount].
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The conditions for sending an email would be a successful transaction - the information in the email would not be taken from a database entry (again, from the fields).

Currently everything is coded in vb/asp (not .net).

On my test machine I have the SMTP service running with the default settings - when I do get something running, I will need to authenticate on another mail server.

 

[TonyU]

This can be done with ASP and obviously a database with no problem

There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over!

-TonyU

 

[TonyU]

The logic:

Client side

Client fills out form with request and information is entered into the database

Server Side

The server (asp pages) would know when the last request was made based on the last page, then makes a trip to the database and retrieves all the information stored from the current client sending an automated email with all the information relevant to them...

There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over!

-TonyU

 

[BlueScr33n]

Update:
Ended up using a nice freeware package called ASPEmail (

http://www.persits.com)

& modifying a web form.