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Adobe® ColdFusion® 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started
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Adobe® ColdFusion® 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started

by Ben Forta, Raymond Camden, Charlie Arehart
April 2010
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
15h 46m
English
Adobe Press
Content preview from Adobe® ColdFusion® 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started

Chapter 20. Interacting with Email

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, ...

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