Tom, I can agree with not moving the mail automatically, but your second statement seems more like an excuse for a lack of oversight.
A million things can get in between CF and the SMTP server even if they are on the same box. CF should have a setting to determine how many times to attempt delivery. Even reliable servers have load constraints. So one second it may be too busy to accept the message, yet a second later it can. I see this all the time with Exchange, which I find to be a quite reliable SMTP server. To me it seems half-assed that you couldn't put such a minor feature into CF considering how frequently people bring this up as a problem. I can't count how many people I have met at conferences who have built mass email applications who all complain about the same _defficiency_ And for future reference please don't not refer to _any_ cf developer methods as half-assed. It's not the type of community involvement we expect from MM. -Adam On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 03:50:47 -0500, Tom Jordahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > In summary: instead of doing it half-assed, we let the expert program (and > admin) handle it. > > The right way to think of CFMail is as a "User Agent" passing mail for > delivery. Not as a "Mail Transport Agent". > > Hope that helps clarify things. > > Tom Jordahl > Macromedia Server Development > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 6:10 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: why do e mails go into the Undelivr folder? is there any > improvement in MX 7? > > Ah I see there were earlier posts. You can't always rely on GMail's > threading to group stuff. > > Sure it would be more efficient, but a batch file in Windows can't > make decisions based on file age without some outside help. Don't > know about *n*x. > > A new feature would be nice, and maybe we'll get it within the next > 2-3 years when CF8 comes out :D > > -- > --mattRobertson-- > Janitor, MSB Web Systems > mysecretbase.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195045 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
