Do you have to use an email client in order to send emails?

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December 16, 2010
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I am in the process of writing code to test some sample emails. However, I wanted to use Gmails" SMTP to send emails, but it is asking me for an email client. I currently do not have permission to the email client and I do not have administrative privileges to download software on this desktop.

Please provide me with any assistance or other suggestion on my testing emails for my application I am developing?

Best regards,

garjuyen1107

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ilssac

Inspiring

No, I don't think so.

I am not sure what it is asking for? Are you sure your gmail has been configured to allow messages to be posted to it? I have never done it, but I have read many places that others have, I recall these sources mentioning that a default GMAIL configuraiton does not allow ColdFusion to send messages to them. That you have to configure something in GMAIL for it to accept the SMTP requests.

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Anonymous

THanks for the reply. You are absolute right and I tried to configure my GMAIL account to allow me to send emails to it using the various articles I found online and information I found at Gmail. But I am far from an expert when it comes to these things, so I could be doing something wrong when I try to configure in Coldfusion 9. Here is what I have input under the Mail Setting in my Coldfusion Administrator and Gmail Settings:

If you look under POP for Gmail Settings, has a link for Configure Email Client

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Anonymous

When I did my first test, it was with my copy of CF installed on my local workstation, which does have Outlook installed. I just tried again on a new server I'm building, which definitely does not have any mail clients installed, and the test worked from there as well.

I'm not sure about attaching files. I don't see any option for doing that.

That is certainly strange. I believe it is the Server Settings. Now, should I have my full domain name under username. for example, I have listed siamadu@gmail.com as the user. SHould it be siamadu instead? Are you using Coldfusion 9?

I am really trying hard to trouble shoot this thing. I apologize for the silly questions? I was able to cut and paste a copy of Summary Settings

System Information

Server Details
Server Product	ColdFusion
Version	9,0,1,274733
Edition	Developer
Operating System	Windows XP
OS Version	5.1
Adobe Driver Version	4.0 (Build 0005)

Server Information

General Settings
Timeout requests	Yes
Enable Per App Settings	Yes
Request Time Limit	60 seconds
Use UUID for CFToken	No
Enable Whitespace Management	Yes
Disable Service Factory	No
Protect serialized JSON	No
Protect Serialized JSON Prefix	//
Missing Template Handler
Site-wide Error Handler
Enable HTTP status codes	Yes
Enable Global Script Protection	Yes
Default CFForm ScriptSrc Directory	/CFIDE/scripts/
Google Map Key
Maximum size of post data	100 MB
Request Throttle Threshold	4 MB
Request Throttle Memory	200 MB
Request Tuning
Simultaneous request limit	10
Flash Remoting request limit	5
Web Service request limit	5
CFC request limit	10
CFThread Pool Size	10
Maximum number of report threads	8
Request Queue Timeout	60 seconds
Request Queue Timeout Page
Maximum number of running JRun threads	50
Maximum number of queued JRun threads	1000
Caching
Template cache size	1024 templates
Enable trusted cache	No
Cached query limit	100
Save Class Files	Yes
Cache web server paths	No
Client Variable Settings
Default client variable store	Registry
Client Stores
Registry
Type	REGISTRY
Description	System registry.
Purge data after time limit	Yes
Time limit	90 days
Disable global updates	No
Cookie
Type	COOKIE
Description	Client based text file.
Purge data after time limit	Yes
Time limit	10 days
Disable global updates	No
Memory Variables
J2EE Sessions	No
Application Variables
Enable Application Variables	Yes
Default Timeout	2,0,0,0
Maximum Timeout	2,0,0,0
Session Variables
Enable session variables	Yes
Default Timeout	0,0,20,0
Maximum Timeout	2,0,0,0
ColdFusion Mappings
/gateway	C:\ColdFusion9\gateway\cfc
/CFIDE	C:\ColdFusion9\wwwroot\CFIDE
Mail Connection Settings
Default Server Port	465
Connection Timeout	60 seconds
Spool Interval	15 seconds
Mail Delivery Threads	10
Maintain Connection to Mail Server	No
Spool Messages To	disk
Max Messages Spooled to Memory	50000
Default CFMail Charset	UTF-8
Use SSL Connection	Yes
Use TLS	Yes
Default Mail Server
smtp.gmail.com
Server	smtp.gmail.com
Port	465
Username	siamadu@gmail.com
Password	not shown
Mail Logging Settings
Log Severity	warning
Log all E-mail messages sent by ColdFusion	No

Event Gateways

Settings
Enable Event Gateway	Yes
Thread Pool Size	1
Max Queue Size	10
Gateway Types
SMS
Description	Handles SMS text messaging
Class	coldfusion.eventgateway.sms.SMSGateway
Timeout	30 seconds
Kill On Timeout	Yes
XMPP
Description	Handles XMPP instant messaging
Class	coldfusion.eventgateway.im.XMPPGateway
Timeout	30 seconds
Kill On Timeout	Yes
SAMETIME
Description	Handles Lotus SAMETIME instant messaging
Class	coldfusion.eventgateway.im.SAMETIMEGateway
Timeout	30 seconds
Kill On Timeout	Yes
DirectoryWatcher
Description	Watches a directory for file changes
Class	examples.watcher.DirectoryWatcherGateway
Timeout	30 seconds
Kill On Timeout	Yes
Socket
Description	Listens on a socket
Class	examples.socket.SocketGateway
Timeout	30 seconds
Kill On Timeout	Yes
CFML
Description	Handles asynchronous events through CFCs
Class	coldfusion.eventgateway.cfml.CfmlGateway
Timeout	30 seconds
Kill On Timeout	Yes
JMS
Description	Handles Java Messaging Service messages
Class	examples.JMS.JMSGateway
Timeout	30 seconds
Kill On Timeout	Yes
ActiveMQ
Description	Handles Apache ActiveMQ JMS messages
Class	examples.ActiveMQ.JMSGateway
Timeout	30 seconds
Kill On Timeout	Yes
DataServicesMessaging
Description	Handles Data Services Messaging messages
Class	coldfusion.eventgateway.flex.FlexMessagingGateway
Timeout	30 seconds
Kill On Timeout	No
FMS
Description	Handles Flash Media Server shared objects
Class	coldfusion.eventgateway.fms.FMSGateway
Timeout	30 seconds
Kill On Timeout	Yes
DataManagement
Description	Notifies Data Management Services of data changes
Class	coldfusion.eventgateway.flex.FlexDataManagementGateway
Timeout	30 seconds
Kill On Timeout	Yes

Security

CF Admin Authentication
Enable authentication for the ColdFusion Administrator	Yes
Allow access to ColdFusion Administrator with a Single password	Yes
RDS Authentication
Enable authentication for RDS access	Yes
Allow access through RDS with Single password	Yes
Security Sandboxes
Enable ColdFusion Security	No

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