Oh! Atleast according to the documention in Adobe website, if you use the 'spoolEnable' = false in CFMAIL or use the CF administrator's Mail settings to disable spooling altogether, the page that sends out the email, should atleast try to send out the email immediately and, give you out an application exception if there was a delivery or connection issues.
However, beware that disabling spool might degrade performance and/or user experience. I've always tried to use a combination of 'failto' or 'replyto' attributes in CFMAIL.. that would send out any failed delivery details to a designated email address. Just make sure you have a general mailbox specified and not a personal one.. This needs to especially followed if the email addresses that your page tries to send to, are not properly validated or may subject to spam entries from the front-end. The 'failto' is a nice way to know if there was a failure or an exception especially due to the content that CF is trying to send to. The reasons may be.. large attachment size... etc., things like that which you may want to investigate on. You may even write a customized coldfusion template that checks this general mailbox to detect any failures and track it through the application. This is only possible if you use 'detectable signatures/ subjects' when your page sends the email. Did anybody had failures with using failto or replyto?.. Thanks, Arun Nallan 409 363 0587 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Charlie Arehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Bettina, tracking successful receipt isn't really a CF problem. It's an > inherent email problem. About all you have is using return-receipt requested > (which you can do via cfmailparam, as shown on > http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_m-o_02.html), > or using a web beacon (that surreptitiously sends a request back to your > server in response for an image request). There are problems with both, > again having nothing to do with CF, in that most mail clients ask if people > want to send the return receipt (I rarely choose to), or they may block > images from being requested (which would block your beacon getting out). > > > > To Ajas' point, you could at least confirm by looking in the mail > directories (and logs) to see if the mail failed to get out, but you really > can't track what happens to it once it leaves CF and gets out through the > destination mail server. > > > > That's my understanding, at least. > > > > /charlie > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Ajas > Mohammed > *Sent:* Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:49 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CFMail Delivery Confirmation > > > > Hi, > > > > Do you have access to the CF Administrator? > > > > If yes, then there is a setting in mail settings where in you could set > Admin to maintain log of emails sent.. > > > > I believe that would be a good starting point to see if mails are being > sent out or not. > > > > HTH, > > > > Ajas Mohammed. > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Tina Scurlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Can you track an email sent from ColdFusion by using CFMAIL tag? Is there > anyway to tell if the email was successfully delivered to the recipient? > > I have tried using the *spoolEnable *and* timeOut *attributes but it has > not done anything. > > Thank you! > Bettina > ------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/> > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > <Ajas Mohammed /> > http://ajashadi.blogspot.com > We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are. > No matter what, find a way. 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