I will give this a shot tomorrow. Just need to figure out a POP account I
can mess with. ;-) I guess you can turn on POP access in gmail?

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Perhaps I should bump this thread by way of a simple question:
> Is anyone out there successfully using the OpenBD tag CFPOP to retrieve
> email w/attachments?
> Thanks!
> Al
>
>
> On 1/13/2011 11:55 AM, Alan Holden wrote:
>
>> BACKGROUND:
>> Traditional ACF behavior for CFPOP is to read a user's email into a
>> "query" object, with each row being a message. Email attachments are saved
>> off into individual files ONLY IF you provide an "attachmentpath" attribute.
>> Because the same path is used by all attachments, the
>> "generateUniqueFilenames" attribute prevents file overwrites.
>> CFPOP places one comma delimited list (tab delimited as of CF8) of
>> attachment file names per message into an "attachments" column of the query.
>> There's also a similar "attachmentfiles" column, but with the expanded path
>> of each file. If generateUniqueFilenames was false, then CFPOP would just
>> use the file's native name - otherwise CFPOP would use a unique name and the
>> file's native suffix.
>>
>> PROBLEM:
>> OpenBD's CFPOP seems to respect the "attachmentpath" attribute, but not
>> the "generateUniqueFilenames" attribute. All the attachments of a single
>> message are saved under the extension-less name "unknownfile", and
>> subsequently overwritten by each attachment & message retrieved, leaving one
>> with a single file of unknown type in the attachmentpath after retrieving
>> multiple messages with attachments.
>>
>> ENVIRONMENT:
>> This issue is observed when retrieving emails from a Dovecot IMAP/POP3
>> server that were originally sent by AOL's feedback loop system. The MTA is
>> SendMail.
>> This is version 1.4a (2010-08-07 01:00:38 GMT)
>> Linux i386 (2.6.24-19-server) Apache Tomcat/6.0.20
>> JVM 1.6.0_17
>>
>>
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