Insanely Useful: Spoolmail
ColdFusionFor years I have programmed all sorts of workarounds for sending email in development. Recently I tried Spoolmail, written by Ray Camden, and have found it to be insanely useful.
Set up is simple. First in the CF administrator set your mail server settings to a non existent mail server.
Second, as detailed in the instructions that come with spoolmail, place the folder in cfide/administrator folder and alter one file. Next time you log in to the CF administrator under Custom Extensions is a listing for Spoolmail.
Click on that and Spoolmail will list the contents of the undeliverable mail folder.
And here is a partial showing of clicking on one of the emails, in this case a multi-part email:
William Broadhead said:
um... Is that just a pointer to the bad mail folder? couldn't I just look there for my expected outbound emails?
Raymond Camden said:
Yes, it "is" just that - but consider this. THe application reads in the emails and formats it much like other web based mailers. This gives you a better way to read the email your CF app is generating. I much rather see the email as my end user would instead of double clicking on text files.
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