Rick, > #1 - in a shared hosting environment, the "user" does not have the > ability to respool things, only the admin does.
#1 - the shared hosting is a problem, so I would expect those sites to use #2. > #2 - Other languages that do SMTP injection actually give an immediate > error that can be trapped by the page... like php will generate an error > immediately, because it connects to the SMTP server to send right away > (if you do it that way)... with coldfusion, there's no way to know if > it has been sent, and in a shared environment, there's no OTHER way to > know if it's been sent either. #2 - Of course you can do this, both in the admin and the tag: SpoolEnable=no. This attribute has been around since CFMX 6.0. > I'd love to see a NOTIFY_ON_FAILURE option to CFMAIL that would allow CF > to send failure notifications to a specified address. Ie, something > the programmers in a shared hosting environment could use. We have the FailTo attribute which you can direct delivery failures to. This assumes that the mail has reached the STMP server of course. But you have to see the irony of trying to send mail when I can't get a spooled mail file to the mail server.... http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000297.htm Tom Jordahl Macromedia Server Development -----Original Message----- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: why do e mails go into the Undelivr folder? is there any impr ovement in MX 7? Tom Jordahl wrote: > We explicitly do not have ColdFusion move undelivered mail in to the spool > folder because we assume this should be a user initiated procedure. > > We do not retry as a "proper" SMTP server does because CF *isn't* an SMTP > server. It expects that you will have a reliable SMTP server that you can > at least spool the mail to, and since it is written explicitly to get mail > where you want it to go and it will take care of any transient failures. Tom, that's all very interesting, but there are a few issues. #1 - in a shared hosting environment, the "user" does not have the ability to respool things, only the admin does. #2 - Other languages that do SMTP injection actually give an immediate error that can be trapped by the page... like php will generate an error immediately, because it connects to the SMTP server to send right away (if you do it that way)... with coldfusion, there's no way to know if it has been sent, and in a shared environment, there's no OTHER way to know if it's been sent either. I'd love to see a NOTIFY_ON_FAILURE option to CFMAIL that would allow CF to send failure notifications to a specified address. Ie, something the programmers in a shared hosting environment could use. - Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195139 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
