Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started
by Ben Forta, Raymond Camden, Charlie Arehart
Sending Email from ColdFusion
ColdFusion’s main purpose is to create dynamic, data-driven Web pages. But it also provides a set of email-related tags that let you send email messages that are just as dynamic and data-driven as your Web pages. You can also write ColdFusion templates that check and retrieve email messages, and even respond to them automatically.
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<cfmail> sends standard, Internet-style email messages using the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP). SMTP isn’t explained in detail in this book; for now, all you need to know about SMTP is that it’s the standard for sending email on the Internet. Virtually all email programs, such as Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Eudora, and so on send standard SMTP mail. The exceptions are proprietary ...
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