As a note, I wrote an application several months ago that scanned the Undeliverable folder in CF for mail and made 3 attempts to resend the message before discarding the message (stored attempts in a database). It worked pretty well, but the code is on my former employer's servers which I don't have access to. But it can be done and it was pretty successful. It typically caught all the "good" mail that just got shoved aside for whatever reason. CFMail is pretty buggy (especially 4.x and 5) so I'd recommend doing something similar if you're not using MX.
So far I haven't had any issues with MX and CFMail, but I'm still going to be re-writing that application for my new CFMX server just in case. If you can find a reliable method to scan the undelivered mail for status codes or something then it would be more efficient than resending everything that doesn't get delivered. Thanks, Joshua Miller On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 11:18 AM, John Beynon wrote: > I've recently had an issue similar to this and the cause was an > uncontactable SMTP server, perhaps down to a network glitch or over > worked > SMTP server/ > > Jb. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 27 November 2002 16:21 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CFMail Problems > > I'm having an interesting problem with an application. I searched the > archives and found issues with 0 byte emails and spool questions about > CF Mail, but nothing that matches this. > > Why would CFMail put a perfectly good email in the Undeliverable > folder? > I have an app that generates a steady flow of emails all day long and > they typically get delivered. However there are some cases where an > email will get batched in the undeliverable folder. I don't have > access > to the server logs as of yet but it's rather disconcerting. > > On the same issue, my mind's already working on a work-around for the > issue. I'm thinking it might come in the form of a batch file that > automatically copies any files in the undeliver directory that meet a > specific criteria back into the spool directory. My thought was to > base > it on the date/time stamp of the file, however I'm wondering if CF > changes the date/time stamp when it moves a message into undeliver. > > Thanks! > C. Hatton Humphrey > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
