User Guide

314 Chapter 16 Sending and Receiving E-mail

Body:

#Sample.body#

Header:

HTMLCodeFormat(Sample.header)#

<hr>

</cfoutput>

</body>

</html>

3 Change the following line so that it refers to a valid POP mail server, as well as to a

valid user name and password:

<cfpop server="mail.company.com"

username=#username#

password=#password#

4 Save the file as hdrbody.cfm in myapps under the Web root directory and view it

in the ColdFusion Studio Browse tab or your Web browser.

Note

To avoid duplicate filenames when saving attachments, set the

generateUniqueFilenames attribute of cfpop to Yes.

Deleting messages

By default, retrieved messages are not deleted from the POP mail server. If you want

to delete retrieved messages, you must set the

action attribute to Delete. You must

also specify use the

messagenumber attribute to specify the numbers of the messages

to delete.

Using cfpop to delete a message permanently removes it from the server. If the

messagenumber does not correspond to a message on the server, ColdFusion

generates an error.

Note

Message numbers are reassigned at the end of every POP mail server

communication that contains a delete action. For example, if you retrieve four

messages from a POP mail server, the message numbers returned are 1,2,3,4. If you

then delete messages 1 and 2 with a single

cfpop tag, messages 3 and 4 are assigned

message numbers 1 and 2, respectively.