Local Outlook Email Address

[EAS]

Hi everyone
Can I get the local machines Outlook Email address automatically, so I can store it in a variable to use in the From field in cfmail?
Thanks in advance for any help
Liz

 

[SidianConsulting]

You can't do that with ColdFusion alone, and as it's a security issue, you'd need either a Java applet or ActiveX control to get this information. You can't just grab anything you want to off the user's machine; there's a privacy issue involved and they'd have to accept a control program that would be downloaded to their machine to perform this functionality; think of all the extra spam this would create, if a web site could just grab email addresses at will from each machine connected.

-Tek

 

[EAS]

Thanks for your reply. I appreciate the security issues - this is purely an intranet system. As the recipient would never need to reply to the email I have used the #remote_user# variable to overcome my problem.
Thanks again
Liz