Your best bet would be to get HMS's mail server working (localhost). Could you be more specific on why that didn't work to begin with?
Look in the mail.log file in <coldfusionroot>/logs/mail.log to see what error is happening when CF attempts to send the mail. Does HMS require authentication when using their mail server. Localhost would assume that an smtp server was listening that the same server CF is installed on. I'm kind of surprised they don't use a separate mail server. Do they have SMTP running on every single one of their CF servers? Also, what if you simply leave the server attribute off of the cfmail tag. Then it will default to what is in CF Administrator. As far as the relay, if the external mail server has relay set to allow requests from certain IP's (which isn't the smartest thing in the world, since IP's can be spoofed to my knowledge) they would need the IP address of the HMS server which would be sending the mail. Depending on how HMS's network is set up, that might the actual CF box, or their firewall. You said "HMS says they don't have a relay to give me." I don't know what you really mean by that since the external mail server (smtp.company.com) would be the one "relaying" the mail. The only problem HMS site might introduce is if their firewall blocked outgoing traffic on port 25 but I doubt that. Hope that helps. ~Brad -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CFMAIL - should be simple right? wrong One of my clients site is hosted at hostmysite.com and we've been trying to get cfmail working. The client, companyname.com hosts the domain's DNS and HMS has the domain listed on their system. I've tried cfmail ... server ="localhost" per HMS recommendation and even tried to point to companyname's mail servers smtp.company.com and it still doesn't work. Companyname say they need to know the ip address of the relay to open it up for incoming requests. HMS says they don't have a relay to give me. Does anyone have any idea or expereince with this? This has been going on for over 36 hours. I've never had this issue with over hosting companies. Thanks D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:288307 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
