title: Sending Email from Classic ASP on Windows 2012 R2 Server Core
body: <p>We have a classic ASP application we just migrated from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2012 R2 Core.</p>
  
  <p>Apparently Core versions of windows don't include cdosys or cdonts and thus our application can no longer send email.</p>
  
  <p>Most of the advice I can find suggests using system.net.mail for sending email which of course is a .NET technology and we're using classic ASP.</p>
  
  <p>We do have .NET on our system but I'm not sure if classic ASP could talk to a .NET page for sending email?</p>
  
  <p>Besides using a 3rd party COM utility like Persits ASPEmail are there any native ways of working around this?</p>
  
  <p>We do NOT want to convert the server core instance to the full version of windows. That's killing an ant with a bazooka. This is only impacting two places in our code and everything else works just fine on core.</p>