Matt, That's pretty nifty. I use a number of the API features of smarter mail integrated into my company management/hours/tasks system. It's definitely a great platform and worth a look.
-mark -----Original Message----- From: Money Pit [mailto:websitema...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 5:53 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: database driven mail server I rolled my own solution with CF coupled to Smartermail's support of Plus-addressing. If you aren't familar with it, its pretty powerful. Lets say my email is u...@domain.com. I send mail with CF as usual and set CFMAIL's FailTo parameter to 'failedmail+1...@domain.com', where 1234 is the primary key ID number for the user record. So bounces come back and plus addressing puts every failure into failedm...@domain.com. I use CFPOP with GETHEADERSONLY (!) to read that mailbox periodically and parse thru returned emails, figuring out what happened from the headers and doing stuff accordingly. Sound like what you're after? A quick snippet to illustrate the maintenance process (which I cfschedule): <cfpop server="#servername#" username="#failUser#" password="#failPwd#" action="GETHEADERONLY" name="GetHeaders"> <cfloop query="getHeaders"> <!--- this header identifies the email ---> <cfset variables.emailID=getHeaders.UID> <!--- this pulls out the user ID from the return address. Note if the email itself is stored in a db then this next step is unnecessary and so is plus addressing as you could just log the user id with the email record ---> <cfset variables.usrID=listLast(listFirst(getHeaders.to,"@"),"+")> <!--- run tests here, as detailed as you like. For example I keep track of failure counts and scrub emails from my list if they reach three strikes. ---> <cfif findNoCase("fail",getHeaders.subject,"1")> blah </cfif> <cfif findNoCase("error",getHeaders.subject,"1")> woof </cfif> <!--- do more clever stuff here as needed. Then delete the failed email from the inbox and continue. ---> <cfpop server="#servername#" username="#failUser#" password="#failPwd#" action="DELETE" uid="#variables.emailID#"> </cfloop> -- --m@Robertson-- Janitor, The Robertson Team mysecretbase.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356693 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
