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December 27, 2018
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CFMAIL from name changing to lowercase

  • December 27, 2018
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Hi

We're in the process of setting up our new Windows 2016 server running ColdFusion 2018 with Update 1 installed.

When firing an email via CFMAIL the "from" name is converted to lowercase. We can't find any settings in the administrator panel or in the neo-mail.xml file.

It this behaviour when our mailserver is turned on, but to test it's Coldfusion that's causing this, we've turned off our mailserver so that the file automatically fails and is saved as a ".cfmail" file in the ColdFusion2018\cfusion\Mail\Undelivr folder.

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Example CFMAIL tag (note the capitalised Sender Name)

<cfmail to="info@recipient.com" from="orders@sender.com (Sender Name)" subject="Example subject name">

....

</cfmail>

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In the failed ".cfmail" file (or delivered email) this shows as below (note the lowercase Sender Name)

type:  text/plain; charset=UTF-8

server:  servername:99

server-username:  server@sender.com

server-password:  password

from:  sender name <orders@orders@sender.com>

to:  info@recipient.com

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Is there a setting or known fix that I can put in place?

Kind regards, Stuart

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4 replies

Billy Fan
Participant
April 17, 2019

We had the same issue.

After some tries we found that we can achieve the "not lowercased sender name" by using this "sender name <sender@email.com>" instead of "sender@email.com (sender name)".

It might break the code highlighting in you editor, but it tested working in my cf2018 environment. And if you really hate the broken code highlighting, you can use script style instead:

<cfscript>

cfmail(

  from = "sender name <sender@email.com>",

  to = "someone@email.com",

  subject = "test",

  type = "html"

){

  writeoutput('my email content')

}

</cfscript>

stuartw81Author
Participating Frequently
January 9, 2019

We've now purchased ColdFusion 2018 Standard edition so are no longer on the Development version. The bug is still in place on the software.

Where can I submit a bug for CF18?

(Link from BKBK above goes to MySQL)

Charlie Arehart
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 9, 2019

Tracker.adobe.com

/Charlie

Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone

/Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
BKBK
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 30, 2018
WolfShade
Legend
December 27, 2018

I've experienced this in our DEVELOPMENT environment.  If you surround the name with anything like parenthesis or quotes, this will happen.  Remove the parenthesis and try it.  I have a feeling that it will not force lowercase when you do this.

HTH,

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