On 12/28/05, Snake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > U know that windows 2003 server has mail built in right ?
And windows 2000 has SMTP relay built in.... I'm pretty surprised that you're not considering sending test email through the production mail server. Assuming you can get access to relay mail through it (not an automatic with many security setups though). If you think about it from a testing perspective, once your ColdFusion page hands off your email to the /Mail/Spool directory, all of your tasks as a ColdFusion developer are pretty much complete. The fact that it goes out instead of to /Undelvr only shows that your local CF server is configured with a valid mailserver... which tests your dev environment much more than your application per se. And even passing that test does not guarentee that everything is set up properly in the production environment (eg you can "verify" to a mail server in CF Admin and still get relaying denied when you try to send email). And if your client has AOL or other tools with built-in spam filtering, your tests can *cause* more concerns from sent but not received mail than waiting to test outbound mail til the production environment (SORBS I think is the spam blackhole list that has many, many dynamic IPs I believe -- seen that bounce personal test servers several times). Just some food for thought. If you're sending HTML/text email, sending some out does make some sense, but think about skipping the whole intermediate Argosoft/etc step and try for the production server (or use you normal outbound server from your ISP) -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint (blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:4:227829 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
