Yep, that's another nifty feature of <cfpop>, the <cfcatch type="any">
doesn't catch those errors. Here's what I use:
<!--- i'll catch any connection errors --->
<cftry>
<!--- i retrieve the emails --->
<cfpop action="GetAll"
attachmentpath="#request.Path.FileDir#attachmentpath\"
maxrows="250"
name="getReplies"
password="#pwqueryName.Password#"
server="#request.MailServer#"
username="#pwqueryName.UserName#">
<!--- i set an error if an invalid username and password combination is
given --->
<cfcatch type="COM.Allaire.ColdFusion.POPAuthFailure">
<cfset POPError="AuthFailure">
</cfcatch>
<!--- i set an error if the mail server cannot be reached --->
<cfcatch type="COM.Allaire.ColdFusion.POPConnectionFailure">
<cfset POPError="ConnectionFailure">
</cfcatch>
<!--- i catch an error if there are no messages --->
<cfcatch type="Any">
<cfset POPError="NoMessages">
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
I then do a <cfswitch> on the output page if there's an error. And I'm not
sure about locking <cffile> tags but if you use <cfpop action="GetAll">, it
is going to save multiple files on your server (depending on your
attachmentpath attribute.) You can use action="GetHeadersOnly", but then
you won't retrieve the message (sarcasm alert: which isn't that important
anyway), any attachments, or the html portion of any multi-part emails...I'd
like to hear anyone's opinion's on putting <cflock>s on <cffile>s if they're
out there->
Tyler
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: Lock CFPOP?
> Are you checking for <cfpop>'s "special" errors such as
> "COM.Allaire.ColdFusion.POPAuthFailure" and
> "COM.Allaire.ColdFusion.POPConnectionFailure"?
No, I wasn't aware of those. Where should I have looked to find out about
these?
> I was pulling a similar non-descriptive error and I had
> to put a <cftry> and <cfcatch> block around my <cfpop>'s to catch these
> errors...
Well, I do have <cfpop> wrapped with <cftry> and <cfcatch type="any">, but
this problem doesn't seem to get caught by cftry. I'm not exactly sure what
that means about the mechanics of the problem.
> ...let me know if you want/need the snippet (if that's the problem)->
I would certainly be interested in seeing that.
-- Owen
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