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ColdFusion 9 adds SpoolMail (Kinda...)

One of the new features in ColdFusion 9 was inspired (I think so anyway) by my SpoolMail project. If you go to the mail settings in your ColdFusion 9 Administrator, you will see:

This brings you to a new page that allows you to browse email sitting in the undelivered folder. This is a great tool for checking emails sent out by ColdFusion on a development machine, which are normally not set to talk to a real mail server. Click the thumb for an example of the UI:

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 9:02 AM. It was filed in the following categories: ColdFusion. It has been viewed 1,919 times and has 7 comments.

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Comment 1 written by JC on 14 July 2009, at 9:28 AM

hmm... is there a function in CF9 to let you delay mail delivery? I've often wished I could leave mail in the spooler for an hour or two when I was sending out a bulk mailing to customers (I usually have our network guys blacklist the outgoing address so they capture it in our mail filters)... that way I can compare the number of mails that actually went out with the number I think should have gone out, and lets me wipe 'em out if I realize at the last minute that something was wrong with them.
Comment 2 written by Raymond Camden on 14 July 2009, at 9:37 AM

As far as I know - no. You would have to write your own logic to do the mails in 'bunches' on an scheduled basis. It wouldn't be too terribly difficult though. You can store them in a 'queue' table, and your scheduled task could process N rows at a time.
Comment 3 written by Steve Rittler on 14 July 2009, at 9:45 AM

what if you change the mail spooler check interval to some really high number (this may be possible through the AdminAPI - don't know off the top of my head), run your mail task and do your checks before that period expires?

similar fun could be had by setting the mail server name to something that makes no sense at all (mail.foofoo.bar), forcing all mail to the undelivr folder where you can do your review prior to moving the files to the spool directory so they get sent. i'm sure i could think of some other dumb server tricks to make this work...
Comment 4 written by Phil Duba on 14 July 2009, at 10:16 AM

It looks like you can only delete or resend, but not edit then resend. Is that the case or does the "Resend" button allow for edits prior to respooling?
Comment 5 written by Raymond Camden on 14 July 2009, at 10:18 AM

I believe you are right. SpoolMail FTW? ;)
Comment 6 written by DanaK on 14 July 2009, at 10:25 AM

glad to see this feature in there. Spoolmail is always one of the first things we add to a new Coldfusion dev environment install.
Comment 7 written by Adam on 19 January 2010, at 5:31 PM

Hopefully there is an adminapi method for re-spooling underlivered mail?!