Re: Check for valid email before CFMAIL
verify your email addresses above the cfmail statement as described. if not valid email then branch your code to notify somebody that Record X has a sucky address that needs fixing (I compile a complete list of all failures and only send the list once its finished). After that, surround your cfmail statement in a try/catch block, where the catch block also adds notification to the list you are already compiling. By putting cfmail into a try/catch block you allow the other cfmail statements in your query loop to run despite the failure of one or more cfmail statements. You wind up with a much more robust chunk of code. I never use the query attribute of cfmail anymore. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janitor, The Robertson Team mysecretbase.com ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276699 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Check for valid email before CFMAIL
Or just "isValid() + Livedocs" Less to type... :-) "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Rick Root To: CF-Talk Sent: Tue May 01 18:59:33 2007 Subject: Re: Check for valid email before CFMAIL Shoot I forgot.. CFMX 7 introduced isValid() which allows you to validate the format of an email address. google isValid +site:livedocs.adobe.com ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276665 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Check for valid email before CFMAIL
Shoot I forgot.. CFMX 7 introduced isValid() which allows you to validate the format of an email address. google isValid +site:livedocs.adobe.com ~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276656 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Check for valid email before CFMAIL
google, isEmail +site:cflib.org
You won't be able to use the query attribute on cfmail if you have
badly formatted email addresses in your database though... unless you
loop through the query and "correct" or "remove" the rows with invalid
email addresses first using the UDF you find on cflib.
Rick
On 5/1/07, Josh Nathanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've got a database that didn't use form validation and some email
> > addresses are
> > not valid. So before I use the cfmail tag to send these out how can I
> > check to make
> > sure it's a valid email address?
>
> It depends what you mean by "valid". You can check for valid syntax on the
> fly using isValid("email",email) (CF7 only). At least this will allow you
> to get through the whole list without generating an error.
>
> Checking to see if the email box exists on a server somewhere is another
> issue and is more tricky to handle - there are solutions out there to handle
> that though. I don't think you want to do that on the fly as it's quite
> slow.
>
> Mmmm, yogurt.
>
> -- Josh
>
>
>
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Re: Check for valid email before CFMAIL
> I've got a database that didn't use form validation and some email
> addresses are
> not valid. So before I use the cfmail tag to send these out how can I
> check to make
> sure it's a valid email address?
It depends what you mean by "valid". You can check for valid syntax on the
fly using isValid("email",email) (CF7 only). At least this will allow you
to get through the whole list without generating an error.
Checking to see if the email box exists on a server somewhere is another
issue and is more tricky to handle - there are solutions out there to handle
that though. I don't think you want to do that on the fly as it's quite
slow.
Mmmm, yogurt.
-- Josh
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RE: Check for valid email before CFMAIL
You can check to see if the email is syntactically correct, but short of opening a socket to the mail server used by that email, there's no way of checking that it's a "real" email address. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:21 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Check for valid email before CFMAIL I've got a database that didn't use form validation and some email addresses are not valid. So before I use the cfmail tag to send these out how can I check to make sure it's a valid email address? Code ... SELECT dbo.mailprofiles.email, dbo.mailprofiles.firstname FROM dbo.subscriptions INNER JOIN dbo.mailprofiles ON dbo.subscriptions.mailprofileID = dbo.mailprofiles.mailprofileID INNER JOIN dbo.newslettertypes ON dbo.subscriptions.newslettertypeID = dbo.newslettertypes.newslettertypeID WHERE (dbo.subscriptions.newslettertypeID = 16) ORDER BY dbo.subscriptions.datesubscribed DESC Hello #firstname#, Recently you told us you'd be interested in sharing your thoughts with us about our products. Please let us know what you think about some new yogurt flavors. As a thank you for completing our short survey, we'll enter your name in a drawing to win Please click on the link below to get started. We appreciate your feedback. Thank you. ~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276639 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
