you can get the immediate notification error if your tell CF not to spool the email. Not sure if you can do this outside of the admin tools though.
jonese On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:53:27 -0500, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195020 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
