RE: [ACFUG Discuss] How does one use ?

[Peyton Todd]

Yes, Shane, it turned out to be in the CF Administrator logs. And the problem was the username and password. (Doug, I did read the material at the url you provided, and now I've read it again; I still don't see anything I don't already know about other than the password issue, which of course I read about earlier, but didn't yet know if it would bite me...). Anyway, I called USA.net and was told that their server is indeed restricted, and they'll try to co-ordinate the password issue with a third party (a middleman between them and my client). But in any case it's not clear that I'll have access to that username and password myself. In testing it from my home, does anyone know of a mail server that's not restricted in this way? Or is there some 'local mail server' on my PC? As I mentioned, when I look into the Mail icon in the Control Panel there are no profiles there. I could put one there if I knew what to enter... Peyton -----Original Message----- From: Dusty Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mar 20, 2008 2:03 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] How does one use ? It really has nothing to do with the sender's server or the recipient server. You just need a mail server that will allow your application access it. A lot of mail servers are set up to not allow that kind of thing or otherwise we could just be using anyone's mail server in our cfmail tag.   If you do use your own mail server then you may also need to pass in the username and password for the email your email box. Did you try that? I believe there are additional attributes username="blabla" password="blabla" ... give that a try if you haven't already done so.   Dusty From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peyton Todd Sent: 03/20/2008 2:01 PM To: discussion@acfug.org 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mar 19, 2008 11:28 PM To: discussion@acfug.org 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_name is "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: discussion@acfug.org 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, which is were I get my e-mail. And I've tried just earthlink.net by itself, and just 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]". 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