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nikoo560
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August 27, 2009
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Email data from form to my email

  • August 27, 2009
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Hi,

I have a ColdFusion form; I need this form mail to my email address. I use this line of code:

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="mailto:nikoo56@yahoo.com" ENCTYPE="text/plain">

Also I tried <cfform tag too.

It doesn’t give me any error but I'm not getting any email too. Even when I try this code in simple .html page it doesn’t send any email as well. Is there any problem with my computer should I change any setting or does it have any other way make it work.

I really appreciate your help.

Thanks,

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    Correct answer Leonard_B

    Hi There,

    Inside the <cfmailpart> tags input your form elements as such:

    <cfmailpart type="text"><!--- Comment - Sends a plain text version --->

    #form.[element_name]# <!--- Do this for each form element you want sent --->

    </cfmailpart>

    <cfmailpart type="html"><!--- Comment - Sends and html verson --->

    #form.[element_name]# <!--- Do this for each form element you want sent --->

    </cfmailpart>

    Leonard

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    Leonard_B
    Inspiring
    August 30, 2009

    Hi,

    The following should take care of your situation.

    For example purposes, lets say your .cfm page is called: mail_form.cfm

    In the body of the mail_form.cfm page, enter the following code structure.

    When this page is opened in a browser the first thing displayed is your form.

    After completing the form and clicking on the "Send" button, the second part

    of the code structure will be processed thus sending an e-mail containing the

    input content of the form.

    Text inserted between <- Comment -> can be removed when coding into the

    page as it is not required for functionality.

    Leonard

    <== Code Sample To Try ==>

    <cfif IsDefined('form.btn_send')>

    <=============>

    <=============>

    <cfmail
    to="nikoo56@yahoo.com"
    from="[Enter email address]"
    subject="[Enter a subject]"
    server="mail.servername.com/org/net/us, etc."
    username="[Enter approrpiate username - mail server]"
    password="[Enter appropriate password - mail server ]">

    <cfmailpart type="text"><- Comment - Sends a plain text version

    <- Comment - Enter email body content --->

    <- Comment - Do not use any html code at all in this section --->

    </cfmailpart>

    <cfmailpart type="html"><- Comment - Sends and html verson

    <- Comment - Enter email body content --->

    <- Comment - Can use html code  here --->

    </cfmailpart>

    </cfmail>

    <- Comment - By adding the following <cflocation> tag into the process, you reduce

    and/or eliminate the chance of multiple e-mails being sent if the page

    gets refreshed.

    <cflocation url="mail_form.cfm?send_status=Successful" addtoken="no">

    <=============>

    <=============>

    <cfif IsDefined('url.send_status' AND Trim(url.send_status) eq "Successful">

    <=============>

    <=============>

    <- Comment - Enter code to let you know that the process has been processed

    successfully ->

    <=============>

    <=============>

    <cfelse>

    <=============>

    <=============>

    <cfform
    action="mail_form.cfm"
    method="post"
    enctype="multipart/form-data"
    name="mail_form"
    preloader="no"
    id="mail_form"
    lang="en"
    dir="ltr">

    <- Comment Form element code here ->

    <cfinput

    type="submit"

    name="btn_send"

    id="btn_send_mail"

    dir="ltr"

    lang="en"

    value="Send">


    </cfform>

    <=============>

    <=============>

    </cfif>

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    nikoo560Author
    Known Participant
    September 2, 2009

    Thanks a lot for the help. It works perfect and send the email but it doesn’t send the form inputs. Email is empty. Is there anything I need to do?

    Thanks,

    L
    Leonard_BCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    September 2, 2009

    Hi There,

    Inside the <cfmailpart> tags input your form elements as such:

    <cfmailpart type="text"><!--- Comment - Sends a plain text version --->

    #form.[element_name]# <!--- Do this for each form element you want sent --->

    </cfmailpart>

    <cfmailpart type="html"><!--- Comment - Sends and html verson --->

    #form.[element_name]# <!--- Do this for each form element you want sent --->

    </cfmailpart>

    Leonard

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    Dan_Bracuk
    Inspiring
    August 28, 2009

    I think that only works with links.  Cold Fusion has a cfmail tag you can use.

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    Inspiring
    August 28, 2009

    I have not seen that used in a long time. IIRC, support for it was 'iffy at best.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279460

    Cold Fusion has a cfmail tag you can use.

    +1

    CFMail runs on the CF server, so it is not dependent on client configuration like "mailto".

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