Coldfusion Mail Script

Posted At : 24 May 2008 19:30 | Posted By : Jonny Shaw
Related Categories: Coldfusion Tutorials

In this short tutorial i will show you how to easily add mail functionality to your website using the cfmail tag. This script could be used to send newly registered users a confirmation email or could actually be developed into a full webmail system.

The first thing we need to do is create the basic tag.

<cfmail to="sample@sample.com" from="test@test.com"

subject="Welcome to my website!" type="html">

Body of message

</cfmail>

There we have the most basic script to send an email.

For those of you requiring extra functionality out of your site here is the syntax of the cfmail tag.

<cfmail
from = "e-mail address"
to = "comma-delimited list"
bcc = "comma-delimited list"
cc = "comma-delimited list"
charset = "character encoding"
debug = "yes|no"
failto = "e-mail address"
group = "query column"
groupcasesensitive = "yes|no"
mailerid = "header id"
maxrows = "integer"
mimeattach = "path"
password = "string"
port = "integer"
priority = "integer or string priority level"
query = "query name"
replyto = "e-mail address"
server = "SMTP server address"
spoolenable = "yes|no"
startrow = "query row number"
subject = "string"
timeout = "number of seconds"
type = "mime type"
username = "SMTP user ID"
useSSL = "yes|no"
useTLS = "yes|no"
wraptext = "column number">

(Optional) Mail message body and/or cfhttpparam tags

</cfmail>