Tom,
Whenever my application tries to send a mail using the CFMAIL functionality it
either crashes or no mails show up in SpoolMail.
Before I installed SpoolMail, my Coldfusion/Flex application was crashing due
to reference to a null object eventObj which made me think that since I have no
mail server installed, it is occurring when CFMAIL tries to send an email and
posted here on May 26.
The application has a functionality something like the below for Recovering
password function.
User clicks a button in the Flex front end, enters his mail address, after
which a function called recoverPassword is called in the "login.mxml" file
which has code as
public function recoverPassword(eventObj:ResultEvent):void{
if(eventObj.result.status == 'true'){
Alert.show(eventObj.result.statusMsg, 'Password
Recovery Confirmation');
currentState = '';
}
else{
Alert.show(eventObj.result.errMsg, 'Email Not Found');
}
}
In the ColdFusion component file, there is a function
<!--- Password Retrieval --->
<cffunction name="recoverPassword" access="remote" returntype="any">
<cfargument name="form_data" type="struct">
<cftry>
<cfquery datasource="#Application.ds#" name="accountCheck">
SELECT *
FROM user_accounts
WHERE email = '#form_data.email#<cfif form_data.email does
not contain '@domain.com'>@domain.com</cfif>'
</cfquery>
<cfif accountCheck.recordcount>
<cfmail from="[email protected]" to="#accountCheck.email#"
subject="Credentials Request" type="html">
Dear #accountCheck.fname# #accountCheck.lname#, <br
/><br />
You have requested that we send your login credentials
for the system on #DateFormat(now(), 'MMMM DD,YYYY')#.
<br /><br />
Your log-in information:<br />
<b>Email address:</b> #accountCheck.email#<br />
<b>Password:</b> #accountCheck.password#
<br /><br />
If you did not request your login credentials, please
contact us immediately at <a
href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>:
<br /><br />
<span style="color:red; font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic;">Please do not reply to this email</span>
</cfmail>
<cfset result['status'] = true>
<cfset result['statusMsg'] = 'Your credentials have been
sent to the following email address: #accountCheck.email#'>
<cfelse>
<cfset result['errMsg'] = 'The email address that you
supplied was not found in our records.'>
<cfset result['status'] = false>
</cfif>
<cfreturn result>
<cfcatch>
<cfsavecontent variable="contentSaver">
<cfdump var="#cfcatch#">
</cfsavecontent>
<cffile action="write" file="#ExpandPath('.')#\debug.html"
output="#contentSaver#">
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
</cffunction>
Before I installed SpoolMail the application crashed at public function
recoverPassword(eventObj:ResultEvent):void as the eventObj was null so trying
to access eventObj.result.status resulted in an access violation.
After I installed SpoolMail it is still crashing and nothing shows up in
SpoolMail. I commented out the function public function
recoverPassword(eventObj:ResultEvent):void, but still nothing shows up in
SpoolMail.
Am I missing something?
Any advice would be appreciated?
Thanks
________________________________
From: Tom McNeer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, May 26, 2010 4:53:39 PM
Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] Newbie questions on Flex for email notification
and form review
Chris,
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Chris H <[email protected]> wrote:
I tried Spoolmail, but could not see any section named Custom Extensions in the
ColdFusion Administrator in my browser(Firefox 3.6) after I copied the
Spoolmail files into the web
>root at: /CFIDE/admistrator and creating the extensionscustom.cfm as explained
>in the install.doc file.
I'm afraid I have no way of knowing the problem. If the files are in the
correct place, the "Custom Extensions" menu choice should be available at the
bottom of the left-hand menu in CF Admin. Clicking it will reveal the SpoolMail
link.
In extensions section in the Coldfusion administrator, all I see is Java
Applets, CFX Tags, Custom Tag Paths, CORBA Connectors
>
Yep. But that's the wrong place. The "Custom Extensions" choice is separate
from "Extensions." It's probably the last choice in the left-hand menu.
If you're certain that all files are correct, and in the correct place, I guess
you could try restarting the CF service. The SpoolMail docs don't mention it,
and I can't imagine why it should be necessary, but you could try it.
I've installed SpoolMail on several machines. If it's set up correctly, it
always works.
>Next, Spoolmail is used for reading mail only meaning an email server is
>required for testing and Spoolmail will be helpful in reading it?
>>Or, is no mail server required if using Spoolmail?
>
You don't need a mail server. The actual mail message is created and formatted
properly by the CFMAIL functionality. If ColdFusion cannot connect to a mail
server, it places the message in its "undelivered" folder. You can find it at
{CFInstallDirectory}/Mail/Undelivr.
SpoolMail just looks into this directory and displays what's there.
--
Thanks,
Tom
Tom McNeer
MediumCool
http://www.mediumcool.com
1735 Johnson Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30306
404.589.0560
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