CFMAIL Looping
I have an application that I've written so that a user can
send a group of people an email message. It is in two parts, the
form and the action page that actually sends the email. The first
page's code is as follows:
<cfquery name="getEmail"
datasource="#application.dsn#">
SELECT *
FROM tblEpolarityRPP_new
ORDER BY EMAIL
</cfquery>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Email RPPs</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="organized.css">
</head>
<body>
<h2>Email RPPs</h2>
<cfform action="rppemail_actiontest.cfm" method="post">
<cfoutput query="getEmail">
<!--- #getEmail.Email#<br> --->
<input type="hidden" name="Email"
value="#getEmail.Email#">
</cfoutput>
<p class="p5">Enter message here:<br>
<textarea name="Message" rows="20"
cols="50"></textarea><p>
<input type="submit" value="Send
Email"> <input type="reset" value="Clear
Form">
</cfform>
</body>
</html>
The query retrieves about 710 email addresses from the table.
When we submit, it apparently works okay, but according to the host
of our web site, there are too many email addresses in the list and
it doesn't send any because it hangs. I know that what the action
page is doing is creating an email with 710 email addresses in the
"TO" line. What I would like it to do is create 710 different
emails, with one of the email addresses from the database in each
message. According to the tech support person at the hosting site,
this should fix the problem. The code on the action page is:
<cfmail to="#Form.Email#"
from="[email protected]" subject="ePolarity"
type="html" server="mail.polarityinbalance.com">
#Form.Message#
</cfmail>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Email RPP Results</title>
</head>
<body>
Your email was successfully transmitted.<p>
<a href="polarityadminindex.cfm">Click here</a>
to return to the Administrator menu.
</body>
</html>
Any suggestions on how to create a loop to insert one email
address at a time into the email would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much,
Michelle Craig
look into this document
http://127.0.0.1:8500/cfdocs/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm
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hth
Azadi Saryev
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CFMAIL Attached vs. embedded (cfmail, multipart/mixed)
I want to send a mail which has a PDF attachment and an embedded image. When I send them both with cfmailparam (with correct disposition) they arrive in the email as attachments in the body...you don't get the little email paperclip attachment icon.
When I tried using mimeattach for the PDF it did work!...but the image denoted with cfmailparam also came through like that. So I looked the email headers of both and the good one was Content-Type: multipart/mixed; while the bad one was "multipart/related".
So how can I make cfmailparam send it as multipart/mixed? (if that's even the right question...maybe I should stick with mimeattach and do something else?)
Thanks Folks' - RandyI never found a solution using cfmail. I had to resort to java instead.
I have all of my file information (including content) in a query called qFiles and loop through that in the code below.
<cfscript>
// config will stay this way
emailServer = serverAddressHere;
emailServerAccount = "";
emailServerPwd = "";
// set email variables
vSentFrom = sentFromEmailHere;
vSubjectText = subjectHere;
recipientsTo = listToArray( SentToListHere );
recipientsCC = listToArray( CCListHere );
recipientsBCC = listToArray( BCCListHere );
// set javamail properties
props = createObject("java", "java.util.Properties").init();
props.put("javax.mail.smtp.host", emailServer);
// get static recipient types
recipientType = createObject("java", "javax.mail.Message$RecipientType");
// create the session for the smtp server
mailSession = createObject("java", "javax.mail.Session").getInstance(props);
// create a new MIME message
mimeMsg = createObject("java", "javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage").init(mailSession);
// create the to and from e-mail addresses
addrFrom = createObject("java", "javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress").init(vSentFrom);
for (cfIdx = 1; cfIdx LTE arrayLen( recipientsTo ); cfIdx++)
addrTo[cfIdx] = createObject("Java", "javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress").init( recipientsTo[cfIdx] );
// add a recipient
mimeMsg.addRecipient(recipientType.TO, addrTo[cfIdx]);
if(ArrayLen(recipientsCC)){
for (cfIdx = 1; cfIdx LTE arrayLen( recipientsCC ); cfIdx++)
addrCC[cfIdx] = createObject("Java", "javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress").init( recipientsCC[cfIdx] );
// add a recipient
mimeMsg.addRecipient(recipientType.CC, addrCC[cfIdx]);
if(ArrayLen(recipientsBCC)){
for (cfIdx = 1; cfIdx LTE arrayLen( recipientsBCC ); cfIdx++)
addrBCC[cfIdx] = createObject("Java", "javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress").init( recipientsBCC[cfIdx] );
// add a recipient
mimeMsg.addRecipient(recipientType.BCC, addrBCC[cfIdx]);
// build message
// set who the message is from
mimeMsg.setFrom(addrFrom);
// set the subject of the message
mimeMsg.setSubject(vSubjectText);
// create multipart message: only needed if you're including both plain/text and html
// or using attachments
multipart = createObject("java", "javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart").init();
// specifies that the message contains both inline text and html, this is so that
// images given a cid will show up when rendered by the e-mail client
multipart.setSubType("mixed");
// create html text multipart
oHtml = createObject("java", "javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart").init();
// add the html content (the setText() method shortcut/only works for "plain/text")
oHtml.setContent( emailContentHTML, "text/html");
// add the body part to the message
multipart.addBodyPart(oHtml);
// loop over files to attach to the email
for ( intRow = 1 ; intRow LTE qFiles.RecordCount ; intRow = (intRow + 1))
// set file info to vars
fileContent = qFiles["fileContent"][intRow];
fileMimeType = qFiles["mimeType"][intRow];
fileName = rereplace( qFiles["filename"][intRow] , '(?!\.[^.]*$)\W' , '' , 'all' );
if(len(fileName) > 50)
{fileName = mid(fileName,1,44) & right(fileName,find('.',reverse(fileName)));}
// attach an inline binary object
att = createObject("java", "javax.mail.internet.MimeBodyPart").init();
// create an octet stream out of the binary file
os = createObject("java", "org.apache.axis.attachments.OctetStream").init(fileContent);
// we now convert the octet stream into the required data source. using an octet stream
// allows us pass in any binary data as a file attachment
osds = createObject("java", "org.apache.axis.attachments.OctetStreamDataSource").init("", os);
// initialize the data handler using the data source
dh = createObject("java", "javax.activation.DataHandler").init(osds);
// pass in the binary object to the message--javamail will handle the encoding
// based on the headers
att.setDataHandler(dh);
// define this binary object as a PDF
att.setHeader("Content-Type", fileMimeType);
// make sure the binary data gets converted to base64 for delivery
att.setHeader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "base64");
// specify the binary object as an attachment
att.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment");
// define the name of the file--this is what the filename will be in the e-mail client
att.setFileName(fileName);
// add the body part to the message
multipart.addBodyPart(att);
//end loop through qFiles
// place all the multi-part sections into the body of the message
mimeMsg.setContent(multipart);
// in this section we'll build the message into a string. you could dump
// the string to a file in most SMTP server's queue file for delivery
// this is exactly what would be pass to the SMTP server
// create a bytearray for output
outStream = createObject("java", "java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream");
// create a budder for the output stream
outStream.write(repeatString(" ", 1024).getBytes());
// save the contents of the message to the output stream
mimeMsg.writeTo(outStream);
// save the contents of the message to the sMailMsg variable
sMailMsg = outStream.toString();
// reset the output stream (for stability)
outStream.reset();
// close the output stream
outStream.close();
// create a transport to actually send the message via SMTP
transport = mailSession.getTransport("smtp");
// connect to the SMTP server using the parameters supplied; use
// a blank username and password if authentication is not needed
transport.connect(emailServer, emailServerAccount, emailServerPwd);
// send the message to all recipients
transport.sendMessage(mimeMsg, mimeMsg.getAllRecipients());
// close the transport
transport.close();
</cfscript> -
I need to send an individual email to about 100 names fetched
from an Access 2003 database. I am fetching the distinct emails
from the database and getting each Project owned by each distinct
email address.
I created the correct output on a test web page where the
query will list every distinct email address with each email
address having their own Project Title listing. Now the question is
how do I use my output to send an individual email to each of the
distinct email addresses I got in my query??
For example someone with the email Address of
[email protected] would get one email with his Project Title
listings that could be 3 or 4 titles. The next distinct email
address of [email protected] will get his own email with his
Project title listings.
Here is my attempt but the #userEmail# has everyones email
address.
<cfoutput query = "theQuery" group = "userEmail">
<cfmail to: #userEmail# subject: Project Listing
<cfoutput>Project Listing:
#ProjectTitle#</cfoutput>
<cfmail>
</cfoutput>
Please help.Jazzy has the correct answer. And if your project listings
reside in seperate tables, you need to run a seperate query within
the loop BUT outside of the cfmail in order to retrieve those. So
that would then be...
<cfquery name="rs_read" datasource="xxx" >
SELECT *
FROM #session.sometable#
WHERE whateverid = '#variables.whateverid#';
</cfquery>
<cfloop index="loopcount" from="1"
to='#rs_read.RecordCount#' step="1">
<cfquery name="rs_projects" datasource="xxx" >
SELECT projects
FROM #session.sometable#
WHERE email = '#rs_read.email#';
</cfquery>
<cfset variables.proj = ''>
<cfoutput query="rs_projects">
<cfset variables.proj = variables.proj & ' ' &
rs_projects.projects>
</cfoutput>
<cfmail from="[email protected]" to="#rs_read.email#"
subject="#rs_projects.whatever#">
bla bla #rs_read.anyvariable#
PROJECTS: #variables.proj#
</cfmail>
</cfloop>
REMEMBER: You can not nest outputs in outputs, that's why you
can not run the query output inside CFMAIL because CF regards
cfmail as an output routine. -
CFMAIL (CF5) sends with many corrupted characters
I'm maintaining a system that sends out email mailings. The
same server hosts some Cf applications that also send out some
mails every once in a while. It has been working fine for a long
time. However, in the past few weeks, the server started sending
out the emails with many corrupted characters in them.
There is no error in the logfiles or something, but it seems
like when CF gets too busy sending emails, it starts sending memory
dumps in the mail or so.
What happens exactly is this. I send out mailings to about
10.000 people. It loops over a query that gets these people and
sends out one mail for every 100 persons with the code:
<CFMAIL from="#attributes.from#" to="#attributes.to#"
bcc="#attributes.addresses#" subject="#attributes.subject#"
type="HTML">
#mailcontent#
</CFMAIL>
the attribute 'addresses' contains a list of a 100 email
addresses.
In many cases, this works fine. Only when the server appears
to be quite busy, it sometimes sends out the mails like the example
below.
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CF-SERVER-02 ˆ‚o
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´ £ (×¢ß äp
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4£ ;×8¡ß T
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¸M_ÿÿÿÿ¸M_¬„o
@ ¨Åe 4¹ÿ
4£ Kׄªß 4 5
¸M_ÿÿÿÿ¸M_,…o
@ ¨Åe 4¹ÿ
´‰£
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
</HTML>
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Hƒo
n tcp xƒo
¨ƒo
؃o
tcp np „o
Dƒo
lpc 4%õ x„o
,‹o
@ ¨Åe 4¹ÿ
´u ú
‘1 p
¸M_ÿÿÿÿ¸M_ì„o
@ ¨Åe 4¹ÿ
´ £ (×¢ß äp
¸M_ÿÿÿÿ¸M_ìŠo
@ ¨Åe 4¹ÿ
4£ ;×8¡ß T
p
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@ ¨Åe 4¹ÿ
4£ Kׄªß 4 5
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@ ¨Åe 4¹ÿ
´‰£
The code between the HTML tags is exactly as it should be ,
only mailclients don't understand this anymore and show the
complete HTML code as a text message.
This happens when I send out HTML mails, but when sending
text-emails, the very same happens sometimes.
It's running on CF5 on win2k.
I really hope that somebody can help me out!In iTunes, select your Music Library (the first entry at the top left in the side bar)
Press cmd & A keys (Select All)
In the menu bar, go to Advanced > Convert ID3 tags. Click on "None" to reveal the choices available and choose version 2.4, then on click OK.
Note: this will not repair damaged accented characters on songs you have already played since updating to iTunes 7.7. You should correct these before updating the tags. -
CFMAIL sending duplicate messages
I am using ColdFusion 11 on a Windows Virtual Server 2008. The CFMAIL tag is producing duplicate messages (3 each time with IE11 and 2 each time with FireFox. Numerous tests have produced the same results. I tested with and without the mail spooler enabled - no change. The code is simple. no loops, no query, no double-click of the 'send' button. I have seen other complaints about this in other forums with the only solution being "to disable CF scripts that start/stop the mail spooler". 1) Does anyone have a suggestion? 2) How would I disable the CF Script to start/stop the spooler? Robert
RM, not your answer, but note that you’ve asked this on the CFBuilder forums. That’s the CF IDE (integrated development environment, or editor).
You will want to ask this on the CF Forum or one of its subforums instead (perhaps the ColdFusion Server Administration one). It and they are listed at https://forums.adobe.com/community/coldfusion.
/charlie -
CFMail to goup by form field code numbers
Greetings
I have a situation where a user fills out a form with 1 to 10
code numbers (Commercial Commodity Codes), which triggers a CFMAIL
to all Vendors with those codes.
Would a CFQUERY that had:
SELECT cccategory_ID, ccc_cat_num
FROM cccodes_categories
WHERE ccc_cat_num LIKE '%#form.code_01#%'
OR ..... etc. etc.
be the approach here?
I would need to:
<cfmail to = "[email protected]"
all the vendors with either 1 or several of the form field
codes....</cfmail>
Thanks in advance
rinormanI got this to work- I'm sure there is a simpler way or a
different way to do it- but...
<cfquery name="emailData" datasource="mydata">
SELECT vendor_email, vendor_cccodes
FROM main
WHERE vendor_cccodes LIKE '%#form.code_01#%'
OR vendor_cccodes LIKE '%#form.code_02#%'
OR vendor_cccodes LIKE '%#form.code_03#%'
OR vendor_cccodes LIKE '%#form.code_04#%'
OR vendor_cccodes LIKE '%#form.code_05#%'
OR vendor_cccodes LIKE '%#form.code_06#%'
OR vendor_cccodes LIKE '%#form.code_07#%'
OR vendor_cccodes LIKE '%#form.code_08#%'
OR vendor_cccodes LIKE '%#form.code_09#%'
OR vendor_cccodes LIKE '%#form.code_10#%'
</cfquery>
<cfloop query="emailData"> <!--- loop thru vendors
and send one email to each --->
<cfmail to="#emailData.vendor_email#"
from="[email protected]"
subject="Available Bid"
server = "emailsrv.whatever">#Form.bid_ID# is
Available</cfmail>
</cfloop>
again, the "vendor_cccodes" field, in this example, is a
comma-delimited list of from 1 to as many as 10 code numbers. -
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We have a few clients who are youth sports leagues and who, a
few times a year, need to send emails out to 'all parents' - this
can be 6000-8000 recipients a pop. We have an email manager program
that generates recipient lists, works with FCKEditor to create the
email, and then loops over the list and initiates a <cfmail>
call for each and every recipient.
This is not usually a problem, even in moderate quantites of
one or two thosuand. The problems occur when we get two leagues who
both do this at the same time, or one league who sends out a big
email and cuts-and-pastes from MS word where the email is 200kb of
HTML. I know we could stop the latter from happening, but I'd
rather find a way to (gasp) enable their bad behavior, if at all
possible.
Originally, we had an offsite email provider that we used for
everything. The problem was that it would require CFMAIL to
authenticate for each and every email sent, adding something on the
order of 5-8 seconds' delay to each email. This made sending more
than a few hundred impractical. We switched to using IIS' built-in
SMTP service right on the same machine as our Coldfusion server,
and this has served us pretty well; we don't authenticate but we
only allow connections from our local IP. We still have the same
basic problem, though, even if it takes more effort to gum up the
works.
My question is: does anyone know a reputable provider of
outgoing, SMTP-only email service that would either not require
authentication, or would cache authentication based on IP so as not
to require us to re-authenticate every single time we send an
email, or else some way around having to send X-thousand individual
emails that won't trigger spam filters? How have you solved this
problem?
Thanks very much!
SKAzadi,
We deal with volunteer parents and thousands of them every
year - and they migrate in and out of the program as their children
do. It is impractical to try and require them to sign up for
mailing lists, or even to maintain mailing lists with the
infrastructure we have. We also have users with multiple roles, and
recipient lists that are only 10-12 people - 'all parents on team A
in division X' or 'all volunteer referees in division Y' and so on.
There are dozens and dozens of recipient lists that change up to
three times a year.
We have user addresses in a database and are willing to
entertain any solution that doesn't require our users to do
anything differently that is within our means. -
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I am building an email system that will be looping through a
list of email addresses in our database and sending mail via
CFMAIL. Alot of times, the email addresses are bad. i.e.: no
".com", a comma in the email address, bad characters etc. How can I
loop through the email addresses sending them out, but when CFMAIL
errors out because of a bad address, the loop continues on ignoring
the bad address. Can I do this with CFTRY/CFCATCH? Will
CFTRY/CFCATCH halt the process entirely or will it catch it then
continue on?Cold Fusion has an isvalid function you can use to confirm
that any
given string is a properly formatted email address. You can
use this to
prevent improperly formatted addresses from getting into your
db in the
first place.
If ColdFusion was used to put the email address into the
database in the
first place. That is not always true. Some places have more
the one
application working with a given database.
Now using isValid to validate the address before attempting
to use it in
a <cfmail...> tag may provide some value, but would
still be comfortable
with wrapping the tag with a try catch. I just like to do so
whenever I
am playing with other protocols. -
CFMAIL error when encountering bad address
Hello
I have an app running with approx 6,000 signees. I try to ensure their email going in the DB is validated via javascript- but this not totally effective.
What code could I write in the CFmail tag that would ignore bad emails, send the meassage without errors, and perhaps even list the bad mail addresses?
Thanks in advance
Norman B.You may have to validate the e-mails one by one. You could loop through the e-mail addresses, and do something like
<cfloop>
<cfset isFromEmailValid = isValid("email", fromEmail)>
<cfset isToEmailValid = isValid("email", toEmail)>
<cfset isSubjectValid = len(trim(subject))>
<cfif isFromEmailValid and isToEmailValid and isSubjectValid>
<cfmail from="#fromEmail#" to="#toEmail#" subject="#subject#"></cfmail>
<cfelse>
<!--- log details of unsent mail--->
</cfif>
</cfloop>
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[Edited: my initial response had crossed Adam's on the wire.] -
Debugging CFMAIL attribute / bad address errors
We sent out email blasts by querying the database for a list of addresses and have been getting two errors which seems to kill off the loop we use to call CFMAIL:
"Error","mailWorker-5","11/01/12","10:15:29",,"javax.mail.SendFailedException: Invalid Addresses; nested exception is:
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPAddressFailedException: 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address "
and
"Error","ajp-bio-8012-exec-251","10/29/12","10:16:31",,"Attribute validation error for tag CFMAIL."
I suspect that both are related to some type of malformed email addresses, but how would i determine which email address? is there a way to determine which attribute caused an error?ggantzer2 wrote:
... have been getting two errors which seems to kill off the loop we use to call CFMAIL
It's a shame if one error should kill off the loop. Imagine the error occurring after just 3 sent mails out of a 5000-message job! If throughput is important, then you might want to redesign as follows:
<cfloop query>
<cftry>
<cfmail>
</cfmail>
<cfcatch type="any">
<!--- handle errors, for example, log e-mail address and error message --->
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
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