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>#For m.hemails#</cfoutput></p>
<cfmail to="#Form.semails#,#Form.hemails#" replyto="#Form.useremail#"
failto="nosuch@sbcglobal.net" from="#Form.useremail#" subject="Keep Maine
Toxin-Free!" server="mail.nosuch.com" port="26" timeout="40"
username="none@nosuch.com" 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

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).

--
Adam

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.