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Anonymous
December 16, 2010
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Do you have to use an email client in order to send emails?

  • December 16, 2010
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Do you have to use an email client in order to send emails?

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
    ilssac
    Inspiring
    December 16, 2010

    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
    December 16, 2010

    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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    Deb
    Participating Frequently
    December 16, 2010

    Can you just skip the client configuration portions of that page? It  looks like you could do that.

    Have you tried verifying your mail server connection in the CF Administrator? Does it verify? If it does, have you tried sending a message using CFMAIL?

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