I find CFMAIL issues amongst the most difficult to debug, because you get such vague or even non-existent indications of problems. Often the only indication you get that your CFMAIL is wrong, is you dont receive any email.
[A] I would check that you have all the required settings for your mail server. For example, in our system, the username is the full complete email address, not just the part to the left of the @. [B] Check that you have the server= attribute and the username= and password= correct in the CFMAIL tag. Our system blocks any mail coming from anywhere that doesnt have the correct authentication to prevent spammers exploiting our mail server. Yours may well be the same. Your support people at eworks.in will be able to tell you this. [C] check that you have no syntax errors in the message. If your message is built using coldfusion, and you have an error in your code there, you'll not get an error message, you'll just get nothing at all. I would verify that you can indeed send emails using CFMAIL by sending one with a very simple content like "TEST" to eliminate this as a possible culprit. [D] check that your isp doesnt block some ports. My isp (iinet.net.au) for example, blocks port 25 by default to help reduce hacking, but can be enabled if you need it (we do in order to pass mail through to the remote mail server). In this case, I think you're not making a connection to the server, but once you get through that obstacle, the others may well show themselves too. I think the most likely is [D] above. Hope this helps. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Sagar Gupta <jupi...@eworks.in> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm trying to send emails using the CFMAIL tag. I know how it is done and > have tried every possible way to figure out why it isn't working. > Coldfusion > 9 64-bit is running on a CentOS 5.4 x64 box with Apache 64-bit installed. > It > is neither sending email through smtp.gmail.com (Google App account) nor > with localhost (sendmail server.) > > > > I've tried following way so far: > > > > 1. Tried to verify my mail server connections (both to Gmail and > sendmail) using the Coldfusion administrator, however, always get following > error: Connection Verification Failed! > > 2. Enabled mail log and have set the log level to Debug. Still don't > see any error in the mail.log file. It does keep updating with spool > related > information but no error or details about connection to the mail server. > > 3. I know correct port and SSL settings required to connect to the > Gmail smtp server. > > 4. Coldfusion is running as user cfusion in developer mode. > > 5. This is a new installation on a fresh CentOS box at a client's > site > and I've tried reinstalling Coldfusion a couple of times already. > > 6. Coldfusion is connected properly with Apache version 2.2_15. > > 7. I tried sending email using sendmail using the command-line and it > went through. > > 8. I also tried to send email using a PHP script and it works, > however, I can't rely on it as it deliver email very slow and I need to fix > my installation. > > 9. If I enter localhost in SMTP field, uncheck SSL and check Verify > connection and hit the Submit button in the CF Administrator, it gives > Connection Verification Failed! Error instantly. However, with Gmail, when > the SSL and Verify connection is checked, and port is set to 465 it take a > while (about 20-40 seconds) to give the message Connection Verification > Failed! I'm passing correct login credentials each time. As I mentioned in > the point above it does work from command-line and PHP work with same mail > server settings and login credentials and same CentOS box/Apache > installation. > > 10. IP, host name, trusted users, network config and Firewall all seems > to > be setup quite properly. > > > > Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong here? Where should I look in > my server to get more details? Again, neither sendmail nor Gmail works. > I've > looked in server.log and mail.log. Not sure what's happening. > > > > Best, > > Sagar Gupta > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335091 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
