It looks like this has been addressed in ColdFusion 8.0.1; from the release
notes: "The cfmail and cfmailparam tags now have a remove attribute that tells
ColdFusion to
remove any attachments after successful mail delivery."
Complete release notes:
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/
How about keep a list of email attachments that need to be deleted. This could
be in application or server scope. After an email is spooled up, add the
attachement to the list or array. Have a scheduled task look through your spool
folder every so often and if the attachment isn't in any of the
Dan G. Switzer, II wrote:
> I went ahead and blogged an fully working example using the technique Jon
> Wolski pointed out on Charlie Arehart's blog:
>
> http://blog.pengoworks.com/blogger/index.cfm?action=blog:610
>
> My example also shows using embedded images in an HTML message.
Unfortunately
Nathan,
>Thanks a lot for the references. They both look very promising for our
>needs. Our applications don't send that many emails, but I knew I wasn't
>the first one to run into problems like this. You saved me some time
>searching in the dark.
I went ahead and blogged an fully working exam
Nathan Wells wrote:
> Does anybody know how attachments work in CF 8?
Same as in 7.
> Has anyone heard of future plans by Adobe to allow attached files to be
> automatically deleted after the spool file has been processed. Maybe
> something similar to the tag?
>
I like that idea. Did y
>Nathan,
>
>
>Adobe did this to speed up mass e-mailings that all use a common set of
>attachments--which is common when doing bulk mailings. Obviously in this
>case there's considerably less disk space used and does speed things up.
>However, when you're trying to send dynamically generated conten
Without having tried it, the first thing that springs to mind is to turn
off mail spooling.
In theory, attaching files should not be that much of a bother. I think
you have to add a header specifying filename, MIME header, etc., and you
have to add the file as a base-64 encoded block at the en
Nathan,
>Is there any way to safely delete files that were attached using a
> tag to an email that was generated with the tag? If
>you delete the attached file too soon, then the file doesn't get attached
>to the email, at best, and at worst, the email fails altogether.
>
>
>
> See attached f
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