yeah, check out logs. Mail is spooled so fails silently again, most all you need to know is here http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=basiconfig_11.html note the links in the Note too as one directs you to a doc explaining how cfmail works
Now, I don't mean to just stick a RTFM at you from up high. I don't get the impression of another Robert here folks. :D DK On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Shane Heasley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look in your CF administrator logs. > > Shane > CTek Media > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peyton Todd > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] How does one use <cfmail>? > > > Troy, the only ColdFusion mail folder I can find is > C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Reporters\CFIDE\administrator\mail. Is that the one you > mean? The only files in it are _charsets.cfm and index.cfm. Would I have > to enable mail logging to see anything? I'll try that... > > -----Original Message----- > >From: Troy Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Mar 20, 2008 2:07 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] How does one use <cfmail>? > > > >Have you verified that the mail is even being sent by looking in the > ColdFusion mail folder? Also, it could be that it is being greylisted at the > recipient server. Just a couple of suggestions. > > > >________________________________ > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Peyton Todd > >Sent: Thu 3/20/2008 2:00 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] How does one use <cfmail>? > > > > > > > >No luck so far. The company which allegedly handles their e-mail (USA.net) > tells me the SMTP server to use is exchange.usa.net, and at least when I > enter that in the 'mail' dialog of the CF Administrator, then put a check by > Verify Mail Server Connection and submit it, it does respond with Connection > Verification Successful. But whether I use server='exchange.usa.net' in > the <cfmail> tag, or just let it use what's in the CF Adminstrator, the > office manager at my client's site tells me he sees nothing from me in his > e-mail Inbox. (I have my e-mail address in the from='<sender'> parm of the > tag, and my name in the subject line parm of the tag). > > > >If we assume that this means what I was given as the SMTP server name is > incorrect, how do I find the correct name? I'll be at their site tomorrow > and can look on their server, but where would I look? The guy at the > USA.net help desk said the place to look is in the mail icon in Settings > --> Control Panel. He said there should be profiles there with the correct > information. However, when I click the Mail icon there on my own computer > just to educate myself, there are not profiles to be seen. And when I called > the office manager at the client's place of business and asked him to look > for the Mail icon in Settings --> Control Panel on their web server, he said > he could find no such icon in the Control Panel. (I'm almost certain that PC > is running Windows Server 2003, while I'm running XP Professional.) > > > >Also, I'm unclear as to whose server we're talking about here: the one > used by the sender or the one used by the recipient of the e-mail message? > > > >Peyton > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Dusty Hale > >Sent: Mar 19, 2008 11:28 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] How does one use ? > > > > > > > > Also I assume you will be moving the app to a different server > after you test it locally. Where ever you host it at should be able to > provide you with an SMTP server name to use. If you plan to use the "server" > attribute rather than configuring it in cf admin, you might consider setting > a variable in your application.cfm file with the value of the server name > so you can easily change it. Or better yet you might do something like: > > > > <cfif cgi.server_name is "localhost"> > > <cfset request.mymailserver = "mail.someserver.com"> > > <cfelseif cgi.server_name is "somedomain.com" or cgi.server_nameis " > www.somedomain.com"> > > <cfset request.mymailserver = "mail.someotherserver.com"> > > <cfelse> > > <!--- throw some kind of error ---> > > </cfif> > > > > then in your cfmail tag do > > > > <cfmail to="blabla" from="blabla" subject="hello world" > server="#request.mymailserver#"> > > bla bla > > </cfmail> > > > > And if you have multiple instances of cfmail you might do the same > for the to and from email addresses. > > > > -Dusty > > > >________________________________ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Douglas Knudsen > > Sent: 03/19/2008 11:11 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] How does one use <cfmail>? > > > > > > typically the server stuff is set in the admin, thus encapsulating > the developer from needing that info. Check out > > http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/basiconfig_11.html > > > > You will need the email servers SMTP info. I doubt you will be > able to send email vial mail.earthlink.net though due to relaying > restrictions. Is your client using a host? > > > > DK > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Peyton Todd < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > This question will probably be easy for nearly every > ACFUGGER except me: > > > > I want to use the <cfmail> tag, and my question is: what > do they mean by the 'server'? For example, in testing the site I'm building > on my own PC as local server, I plan to send the e-mail messages from the > site I'm building to myself. My e-mail address is > [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that's how I'm filling in the > to="<recipient>" parameter of <cfmail> (Incidentally, does the > from="<sender>" parameter make any difference if the recipient will not be > replying? In this case the recipient will be the office manager on the same > LAN as the web server itself, and he'll always know where the e-mails come > from). > > > > But the hard part is what to put for the server. I've > tried webmail.atl.earthlink.net <http://webmail.atl.earthlink.net/> , > which is were I get my e-mail. And I've tried just earthlink.net < > http://earthlink.net/> by itself, and just mindspring.com < > http://mindspring.com/> . But nothing appears in my e-mail inbox, not even > a message from the MAILER DAEMON, which ought to know where to send such a > message (of ColdFusion should know, since I've specified from=" > [EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > > > Thanks for your help, > > Peyton > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com < > http://www.figleaf.com/> > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform < > http://www.acfug.org/?fa=login.edituserform> > > > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > > Archive @ > http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com < > http://www.fusionlink.com/> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Douglas Knudsen > > http://www.cubicleman.com <http://www.cubicleman.com/> > > this is my signature, like it? > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software <http://www.figleaf.com/> > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform < > http://www.acfug.org/?fa=login.edituserform> > > > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > > List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software <http://www.figleaf.com/> > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform < > http://www.acfug.org/?fa=login.edituserform> > > > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > > List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > >Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com > > > >To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > >http://www.acfug.org?fa=gin.edituserform > > > >For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > >Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > >List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > >------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com > > > > > > > >To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > > > >http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > > > > > > >For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > > > >Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > > > >List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com > > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com > > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?falogin.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
