I am trying to send a mass mailing to a somewhat carelessly created list of
contacts using e-mail addresses which were not verified at the time of
entry. Whenever the cfloop tag comes to an erroneous recipient, it quits and
throws an error. Is there anything I can do to the code to make it keep
Dave,
A) What is the error. Fixing the error will keep your loop going.
B) Using a try/catch INSIDE the loop will allow you to keep it going - with
the caveat that you will miss whatever email throws the error so you might
want to log that inside the catch.
-Mark
-Original Message-
You may want to add a cftry/cfcatch (around the cfmail block) so when
the error occurs it can be handled gracefully via cfcatch (like tagging
the recipient record as having a bad address) and the loop will keep
going - valid recipients get their mail and the others can be cleansed
from the
cftry
Run you CFMAIL..
cfcatchMark email bad in database/cfcatch
/cftry
-Original Message-
From: Dave Long [mailto:d...@northgoods.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 5:12 PM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Handling invalid recipient in mailing list
I am trying to send a mass mailing to a
Dave,
You could have your code 'automatically' scrub the list and use a 'log' to
keep track of the changes. This way you won't have to do a test run.
Also, you could set up your code on a 'dummy' email server that will send
the email but trap it prior to being mailed, this way you don't have
Thanks to all. The scheme worked perfectly. Next I will have to warn my
recipients that a test is coming so I can remove invalid recipients.
Unless maybe you can suggest a method to delete them as they occur. I intend
to add a confirmation message requirement to our contact form, which should
You probably know already, but I'll say it just in case ... you can rarely
have a 100% clean list. I have found that even after you just clean up
a list, your next mailing will have rejects in it. Even if it's only a
few minutes since you last cleaned it up.
Your error handling needs to be
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