verifying outgoing e-mails (cfmail tag)

[dakota81]

I maintain an application for a company, and we've run into some instances in the past.

(1) Coldfusion Administrator lost the mail server setting and reverted back to localhost. Not sure why, but it happened.
(2) The mail server has gone down for some length of time

In both cases, Coldfusion has just dropped any e-mails attempted to be sent out. Is there any way I can quickly verify the functionality of e-mailing from Coldfusion? Obviously I'd like to give better warnings in the application than just "the e-mail didn't reach the receipient.

 

[TruthInSatire]

you could have it email you when there is a problem...
just kidding.

If there is a problem sending mail its captured by CF and entered into the mail log.

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