Cfmail - works locally but not when uploaded

Question

Hi,
I'm using cfmail with form variables for the email addreses.
It's so users can send email to political candidates. Here's the
code:
<cfoutput>#Form.semails#</cfoutput>,<cfoutput>#Form.hemails#</cfoutput></p>
<cfmail to="#Form.semails#,#Form.hemails#"
replyto="#Form.useremail#" failto="[email protected]"
from="#Form.useremail#" subject="Keep Maine Toxin-Free!"
server="mail.nosuch.com" port="26" timeout="40"
username="[email protected]" password="nosuch">
#Form.usermessage#
</cfmail>
The form submit page collects those variables and passes them
as form variables - GET. The "to" field in cfmail is populated by
hidden fields that contain session variables... they're forwarded
on as those .semails and .hemails form variables. Actual values
have been replaced with "none" or "nosuch" for security, but you
can see the structure anyway.
This works when run locally, sends the emails as it should.
When uploaded exactly as is to godaddy's server, it doesn't send
emails. Doesn't throw any errors, the form results page displays as
it should... but the emails just never get sent.
I'd really appreciate any ideas...
Joe

Answer 1

Adam Cameron wrote:
> I don't know how these shared hosting outfits work, and
what access you
> have to what, but here's some questions:
>
> - have you inspected the mail logs to see if they cast
any light on the
> scene
> - have you configured CF to tell it where the SMTP
server is?
> - do you need to authenticate to it, and that sort of
thing?
> - are the email messages failing @ the CF end (in which
case they'll be in
> the mail/undeliverable dir (not entirely sure that's the
name of it, but
> have a shufti around in the cfusion dir...), or are they
getting to the
> SMTP server and failing there (check the SMTP server's
logs).
>
Unfortunately all that can't be done by us users of these
shared hosting
outfits. You'll need to contact GoDaddy support and ask them
to take
these steps. I'm sorry about your probably experience with
this.
While I use GoDaddy for my personal hosting where I care more
about not
spending a great deal of money over high performance. I do
not wish my
support experiences on anybody. If you know ColdFusion well
and can
tell support what needs to be done, they should be able to do
it. Or,
more likely, you would be able to figure out the self help
tools to do
it yourself. But, unless this has changed since my last
experience,
their support staff is not ColdFusion literate and are unable
to guide
other, inexperienced ColdFusion users.
Saying all that. Email works just fine on my GoDaddy website
and I do
not believe I had to do anything special to use it.