Question

CFMAIL using a query

Asked by: John_crawford32

I use the following code to send email messages. After the cfmail code. I do a cfoutput of my query and it displays the right email addresses.

<cfQuery name="MailNames" datasource="mydsn">
select FirstName, Email
FROM contacts
where contactID in (#MailingList#)
</cfquery>


<cfmail
TO="#email#"
FROM="stsinfo@saf-t-swim.com"
SERVER="205.166.61.75"
SUBJECT="#Form.Subject#"
Type="HTML" QUERY="MailNames">

<BR><BR>
Hi #mailNames.FirstName#,<BR><BR>
#Form.Body#<BR><BR>
<cfif #Form.imageLocation# IS NOT "">
<img Src="#Form.ImageLocation#">
</cfif>

</cfmail>

I receive the following error.

Error Diagnostic Information
unknown exception condition

TagCFMail::sendMessage

The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFMAIL), occupying document position (21:1) to (26:30).
 
The area if error comes from my cfmail tag

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2000-11-14 at 10:47:05ID11862498
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Topic

ColdFusion Application Server

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Answers

 

by: KobiKPosted on 2000-11-14 at 11:15:42ID: 5335841

The cfmail tag looks ok.
Here are some pointers:

1) try changing the
TO="#email#" inito
TO="#MailNames.email#"

2) Try this tag without the QUERY attribue (remove all fields that belong to the query also) to see if it works ok..

3) If you have any CFOUTPUT around the cfmail tag, remove it.

HTH


 

by: John_crawford32Posted on 2000-11-14 at 11:27:02ID: 5336079

I tried removing the query param and using the fully qualified field name, It sends only one email to the first person on the list.
Thank you, but I have to keep trying.
I also just tried removing all of my cfoutput tags from the page.

 

by: bigbadbPosted on 2000-11-14 at 11:33:57ID: 5336269

rather than using the query attribute of cfmail why dont u use a cfloop query and loop out side of the mail tag.  THis is how i usually do it and it works well

 

by: KobiKPosted on 2000-11-14 at 11:40:25ID: 5336453

bigbadb gave a good solution also.

What i ment is using the QUERY attribue and adding TO="#MailNames.email#"...

what happens in this situation?

 

by: satish2676Posted on 2000-11-14 at 20:43:35ID: 5350782

There is no error in the Coding u r using There might be some problem with CFMAIL tag

U can download the patch for CFMAIL & try it

 

by: John_crawford32Posted on 2000-11-15 at 06:30:49ID: 5358504

I removed the mailnames. from in front of the email and the Firstname in the body.
It still gives me an error locally but on the server it is OK now. I don't understand. I wouldn't mind seeing how bigbadb would use a cfloop to do this though. My cf mind isn't developed enough yet to see how to do it.

 

by: iamariPosted on 2000-11-15 at 06:38:38ID: 5358726

The correct syntax for this is:

<cfmail
                    TO=#ValueList(MailNames.email)#
                    FROM="stsinfo@saf-t-swim.com"
                    SERVER="205.166.61.75"
                    SUBJECT="#Form.Subject#"
                    Type="HTML">

(drop the QUERY=...)

 

by: KobiKPosted on 2000-11-15 at 09:19:24ID: 5363499

Using a Loop:

<cfloop query="MailNames">

<cfmail
TO="#MailNames.email#"
FROM="stsinfo@saf-t-swim.com"
SERVER="205.166.61.75"
SUBJECT="#Form.Subject#"
Type="HTML">

<BR><BR>
Hi #mailNames.FirstName#,<BR><BR>
#Form.Body#<BR><BR>
<cfif Len(Form.imageLocation)>
<img Src="#Form.ImageLocation#">
</cfif>
</cfmail>

</cfloop>

But, i agree with satish2676... as i said the code looks ok.

Cheers!

 

by: bigbadbPosted on 2000-11-16 at 06:15:06ID: 5387179

yea kobik has the right code for my loop idea.  This should work for u

 

by: marco_tortoliPosted on 2000-11-21 at 05:48:13ID: 5474782

i have the same problem of john, and i tried to use kobik code but i still have the same problem:

Error Diagnostic Information
unknown exception condition

TagCFMail::sendMessage

The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFMAIL), occupying document position etc etc....

Someone has any good code for this problem?

 

by: KobiKPosted on 2000-11-21 at 08:26:18ID: 5479361

What version of CF you use?
Maybe you need to upade CF server?
Try SP2 (for CF 4.5.1) on allaire site.

Both the codes (with or without loops works greate for me)

 

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by: jyokumPosted on 2003-11-09 at 09:04:59ID: 9710408

John_crawford32,
No comment has been added lately (893 days), so it's time to clean up this TA.
I will leave a recommendation in the Cleanup topic area for this question:

RECOMMENDATION: split points between iamari http:#5358726 and KobiK http:#5363499

Please leave any comments here within 7 days.

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