I've had dozens of reports of missing mail, and it has always come down to something other than CF. The email address was wrong, the SMTP server was down, the domain of the sender had been blacklisted, something along these kind of lines.
Steve 'Cutter' Blades Adobe Community Professional Adobe Certified Expert Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer ____________ http://cutterscrossing.com Co-Author "Learning Ext JS 3.2" Packt Publishing 2010 https://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js-3-2-for-building-dynamic-desktop-style-user-interfaces/book "The best way to predict the future is to help create it" On 4/4/2013 5:26 PM, Russ Michaels wrote: > This has been reported many times on the forums. > You say it has not happened to you, but how would know unless someone > actually contacted you to say they had not reveived an email and you > investigated it. In most cases of missing email, someone simply resends it > and your none the wiser. > > Regards > Russ Michaels > www.michaels.me.uk > www.cfmldeveloper.com - Free CFML hosting for developers > www.cfsearch.com - CF search engine > On Apr 4, 2013 9:48 PM, "Steve 'Cutter' Blades" < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> That is surprising. Thirteen years with CF, from v4 thru 10, and that >> has never been my experience. It has always come down to the SMTP >> server, or the recipient, 100% of the time. One environment I ran >> processed upwards of 800,000 emails a day. >> >> When you say there is no record on the mail server, do you mean the >> recipient server? Or the SMTP server? Is there a spam filtering server >> in between somewhere? Does your CF server authenticate with your SMTP >> server on send? What sort of security checks and balances are setup on >> your SMTP server? >> >> If you have an entry in the CF Sent Mail log, then there was a valid >> handoff of your message to your SMTP server. If the hand off fails, it >> drops to the Undelivered folder. >> >> Steve 'Cutter' Blades >> Adobe Community Professional >> Adobe Certified Expert >> Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer >> ____________ >> http://cutterscrossing.com >> >> >> Co-Author "Learning Ext JS 3.2" Packt Publishing 2010 >> >> https://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js-3-2-for-building-dynamic-desktop-style-user-interfaces/book >> >> "The best way to predict the future is to help create it" >> >> On 4/4/2013 12:15 PM, Brian Cain wrote: >>> I have had an ongoing problem with ColdFusion dropping some mail >> messages. The mail log show the messages being delivered to the mail >> server, but there is no record on the mail server. I found this thread on >> Adobe's website (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/585718), but there never >> seemed to be an actual resolution of the issue. I have tried contacting >> Adobe support, but that has led to nowhere. Most messages go out, but i >> need 100% reliability for this. Seeing as the problem is not with the >> CFMAIL tag, or my mail server (everything worked fine before we migrated to >> CF9 last year), I need an alternative that will completely bypass the CF >> engine all together. >>> I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. >>> >>> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:355290 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
