User Guide

304 Chapter 16 Sending and Receiving E-mail
Sample Uses of cfmail
An application page with the cfmail tag dynamically generates e-mail messages
based on the tag’s settings. Some of the tasks you can accomplish with
cfmail
include the following:
• Sending a mail message whose recipient and contents are determined by data
the user enters in an HTML form
• Using a query to send a mail message to a database-driven list of recipients
• Using a query to send a customized mail message, such as a billing statement to
alist of recipients that is dynamically populated from a database.
• Sending a MIME file attachment along with a mail message
Sending form-based e-mail
In the following example, the contents of a customer inquiry form submittal are
forwarded to the marketing department. Note that the same application page could
also insert the customer inquiry into the database.
< cfmail
from="#Form.EMailAddress#"
to="[e-mail]"
subject="Customer Inquiry">
A customer inquiry was posted to our Web site:
Name: #Form.FirstName# #Form.LastName#
Subject: #Form.Subject#
#Form.InquiryText#
</cfmail>
Sending query-based e-mail
In the following example, a query (ProductRequests) is run to retrieve a list of the
customers who have inquired about a product over the last seven days. This list is
then sent, with an appropriate header and footer, to the marketing department:
< cfmail
query="ProductRequests"
from="[e-mail]"
to="[e-mail]"
subject="Widget status report">
Here is a list of people who have inquired about
MyCompany Widgets over the last seven days:
<cfoutput>