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Do
you need to send automated, personalized email from your web
site? CFMail could be the thing you've been looking for!
The
CMAIL Workshop is divided into five parts. The workshop is
designed to be worked thru from start to finish.
CFMAIL is a Cold Fusion tag that generates SMTP mail! For
CFMAIL to work you're going to need two things:
- having
your Cold Fusion pages (.cfm) hosted on a server that is
running Cold Fusion server
- your
server will need to be running a mail server
The
source code of CFMAIL looks like this:
The
source code doesn't look that different to what you see in
an email client as an end user! The only significant difference
for now is that it begins with an opening CFMAIL tag and ends
with a closing one.
How
does it work? Simple. Put a CFMAIL tag on a .cfm page and
it will send an email as specified in the tag.
CFMAIL
requires you to specify a sender address, recipient address
and subject, all the other attributes (there are more than
shown above) are optional.
What
is especially neat about the CFMAIL tag is that all the attributes
can be dynamic, that is for example, the recipients email
could be pulled from a database query, or from a form, or.....
well, let's take a look at CFMAIL in action!
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