CFMAIL and adding CC if needed

Question

I am currently looping over a list of email addresses and
sending out the
mail to all users. I'd like to instead check to see if a
variable is set,
and add the cc="" in the cfmail tag instead.
When I try this it fails, I simply did a <cfif MailCC neq
"">cc="[email protected]"</cfif> in the cfmail tag, but
it doesn't seem to like
this.
Has anyone done anything similar?
Or how can I get this to work?
Thanks!

Answer 1

i have not tried it, but i know several ways to make it work:
1) put your whole CFMAIL tag inside a cfif block checking for
MailCC var
. you will have 2 complete cfmail tags - one executed when
MailCC var
exists (this one will have the cc=".." attribute in it),
another
(without cc) executed when MailCC var is empty:
<cfif len(trim(MAilCC))>
<cfmail cc="..." ...>
</cfmail>
<cfelse>
<cfmail ...><!--- no cc attrib in this one --->
</cfmail>
</cfif>
2) use attributeCollection attribute of cfmail tag. assumes
you are on
cf8. (or is it only update 1 that allows using
attributeCollection
together with in-tag attributes? if so, you have to be on
cf8.0.1).
something like:
<cfscript>
mailAttr = {};
mailAttr.server = "mail.somedomain.com";
mailAttr.username = "...";
mailAttr.password = "...";
mailAttr.from = "[email protected]";
mailAttr.subject = "mail subject here";
if (len(trim(MailCC)) gt 0)
mailAttr.cc = "[email protected]";
</cfscript>
<cfmail to="..." attributeCollection="#mailAttr#">
</cfmail>
hth
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/