Tom Jordahl wrote: > We explicitly do not have ColdFusion move undelivered mail in to the spool > folder because we assume this should be a user initiated procedure. > > We do not retry as a "proper" SMTP server does because CF *isn't* an SMTP > server. It expects that you will have a reliable SMTP server that you can > at least spool the mail to, and since it is written explicitly to get mail > where you want it to go and it will take care of any transient failures.
Tom, that's all very interesting, but there are a few issues. #1 - in a shared hosting environment, the "user" does not have the ability to respool things, only the admin does. #2 - Other languages that do SMTP injection actually give an immediate error that can be trapped by the page... like php will generate an error immediately, because it connects to the SMTP server to send right away (if you do it that way)... with coldfusion, there's no way to know if it has been sent, and in a shared environment, there's no OTHER way to know if it's been sent either. I'd love to see a NOTIFY_ON_FAILURE option to CFMAIL that would allow CF to send failure notifications to a specified address. Ie, something the programmers in a shared hosting environment could use. - Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:194975 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
