Sends an e-mail message that optionally contains query output, using an SMTP server.

Communications Tags Internet Protocol Tags

cfftp cfhttp cfldap cfmailparam cfmailpart cfpop wrap

ColdFusion 8: Added priority, useSSL, and useTLS attributes. ColdFusion MX 7: The cfmail tag no longer lets you send multipart mail by embedding the entire MIME-encoded message in the tag body. Use the cfmailpart tag, instead. The cfmail tag renders non-proportional fonts proportionately. This is a behavior change from ColdFusion 5. ColdFusion MX 7 uses UTF-8 and sends this in the mail header (Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8). ColdFusion 5 uses ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1). To avoid this behavior, add the charset="ISO-8859-1" attribute to restore the default ColdFusion 5 encoding. Alternatively, you can change the encoding on the Mail page in the ColdFusion Administrator. ColdFusion MX 6.1: Added the following attributes: charset, failto,replyto, username, password and wraptext. Added support for multiple mail servers in the server attribute. Added several configuration options to the ColdFusion Administrator Mail Settings page. ColdFusion MX: Added the SpoolEnable attribute. ColdFusion 9: Added support for digitally signing the mail. The following are the relevant attributes that are newly added: sign, keystore, keystorepassword, keyalias, keypassword and remove.

<cfmail 
    from = "e-mail address" 
    to = "comma-delimited list" 
    bcc = "comma-delimited list" 
    cc = "comma-delimited list" 
    charset = "character encoding" 
    debug = "yes|no" 
    failto = "e-mail address" 
    group = "query column" 
    groupcasesensitive = "yes|no" 
    mailerid = "header id" 
    maxrows = "integer" 
    mimeattach = "path" 
    password = "string" 
    port = "integer" 
    priority = "integer or string priority level" 
    query = "query name" 
    remove = "yes|no" 
    replyto = "e-mail address" 
    server = "SMTP server address" 
    spoolenable = "yes|no" 
    startrow = "query row number" 
    subject = "string" 
    timeout = "number of seconds" 
    type = "mime type" 
    username = "SMTP user ID" 
    useSSL = "yes|no" 
    useTLS = "yes|no" 
    wraptext = "column number" 
    sign = "true|false" 
    keystore = "location of keystore" 
    keystorepassword = "password of keystore" 
    keyalias = "alias of key" 
    keypassword = "password for private key"> 
 
(Optional) Mail message body and/or cfmailparam tags 
 
</cfmail>

Note: You can specify this tag’s attributes in an attributeCollection attribute whose value is a structure. Specify the structure name in the attributeCollection attribute and use the tag’s attribute names as structure keys.

Sends a mail message to the specified address. Mail messages can include attachments. The tag body can include CFML code to generate mail output. The cfmailparamand cfmailpart tags can only be used in the cfmail tag body.
Mail messages can be single or multipart. If you send a multi-part mail message, all message content must be in cfmailpart tags; ColdFusion ignores multipart message text that is not in cfmailpart tags.
Note: The cfmail tag does not make copies of attachments when spooling mail to disk. If you use the cfmail tag to send a message with an attachment with spooling enabled and you use the cffile tag to delete the attachment file, ColdFusion might not send the mail because the mailing process might execute after the file was deleted. (When this happens, the mail log includes a FileNotFound exception and the e-mail is not sent.) You can prevent this problem by setting SpoolEnable="No" in the attribute or disabling spooling in the ColdFusion Administrator. Disabling spooling causes the e-mail to be delivered immediately.
If you set type="text", sometimes whitespace might be compressed in the messages that you send. To resolve this, in the ColdFusion Administrator, go to Server Settings > Settings and then deselect the option Enable Whitespace Management.

<h3>cfmail Example</h3> 
 
<!--- Delete the surrounding comments to use this example. 
 
<cfif IsDefined("form.mailto")> 
    <cfif form.mailto is not "" AND form.mailfrom is not "" AND form.Subject is not ""> 
        <cfmail to = "#form.mailto#" from = "#form.mailFrom#" subject = "#form.subject#"> 
                This message was sent by an automatic mailer built with cfmail: 
                = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 
                #form.body# 
        </cfmail>     
        <h3>Thank you</h3> 
        Thank you, <cfoutput>#mailfrom#: your message, #subject#, has been sent to 
            #mailto#</cfoutput>.</p> 
    </cfif>     
</cfif> 
 
<form action = "cfmail.cfm" method="POST"> 
    <pre> 
    TO: <input type = "Text" name = "MailTo"> 
    FROM: <input type = "Text" name = "MailFrom"> 
    SUBJECT:     <input type = "Text" name = "Subject"> 
    <hr> 
    MESSAGE BODY: 
    <textarea name ="body" cols="40" rows="5" wrap="virtual"></textarea> 
    </pre> 
    <!--- Establish required fields. ---> 
    <input type = "hidden" name = "MailTo_required" value = "You must enter a recipient"> 
    <input type = "hidden" name = "MailFrom_required" value = "You must enter a sender"> 
    <input type = "hidden" name = "Subject_required" value = "You must enter a subject"> 
    <input type = "hidden" name = "Body_required" value = "You must enter some text"> 
    <input type = "Submit" name = ""></p> 
</p> 
</form>