Coldfusion Mail Form Problem

[besnette1]

Hi there,
I have something that is frustrating me to no end - something simple, I think. If anyone has had this problem and a suggestion I would be grateful!

I am doing a mail form on my site. Very simple. However, when I add a cc field, or a bcc field, it stops working (doesn't send the mail).

This works:

<cfmail>
from="#form.emailaddress#"
to="david@widget.com"
subject="widget.com contact"
server="mail.widget.com"
username="david@widget.com"
password="widgetpassword">

This does not work:

<cfmail>
from="#form.emailaddress#"
to="david@widget.com"
cc="customer@widget.com"
subject="widget.com contact"
server="mail.widget.com"
username="david@widget.com"
password="widgetpassword">

Thank you for taking a look!

 

[dinoviapangea]

I'm not sure if the code you provided is exactly what you have coded. If it is make sure that the <cfmail> tag is open until all the attributes are defined as below.

<cfmail from="#form.emailaddress#"
to="david@widget.com"
cc="customer@widget.com"
subject="widget.com contact"
server="mail.widget.com"
username="david@widget.com"
password="widgetpassword">

Hope this helps,
Dino

 

[besnette1]

Hi Devon,
Thanks for the speedy suggestion. The problem was actually the
from="#form.emailaddress#"

My hosting company doesn't allow that for authentication - so instead I did this

from="david@widget.com"
to="david@widget.com"
replyto="#form.emailaddress#"
cc="whoever you want"
bcc="whoever you want"
subject="Mail form for widget"

And it works great. I appreciate your effort to help me. Take care!

 

[GUJUm0deL]

My hosting company doesn't allow that for authentication

That doesn't make any sense. What does authentication by the hosting company have anything to do with from="#form.emailaddress#"?

The CF server will parse #form.emailaddress# into an actual e-mail (as being passed via the FORM scope)

Did you try wrapping the <cfmail> tag around <cftry>/<cfcatch> to see what the actual error returned is?

Ghepetto's comment above makes sense in that if you coded the <cfmail> tag as:
<cfmail>
from="#form.emailaddress#"
to="david@widget.com"
cc="customer@widget.com"
subject="widget.com contact"
server="mail.widget.com"
username="david@widget.com"
password="widgetpassword">

The portion in red will cause the error as you close the <cfmail> tag before you pass any attributes.

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