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

[Guest]

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

[ilssac]

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.

[Guest]

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

[Deb]

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?

[Guest]

Yes. I have skip that part of the configurating to a email client.  I have verify the connection and it has failed several times. I have also tried to send emails, and the emails remind in the Undeliverable email section of the Coldfusion Administrator.

I do not know what else to do? I was think that there was some sort of WebMail to use just for the purpose of testing emails that I only have to use within a browser and would not have to install any software. Please advise.

Thanks!!

[Deb]

I just set mine up for gmail and it was able to verify. I do NOT have the "Sign" checkbox turned

on, and I set mine to use Port 465 though. The rest of my settings are the same as yours.

[Guest]

Ok. I changed it to the 465 port  It tells me that my connection has failed again. Were you able to look at my gmail settings? Is that set-up properly?

Could there be another place in my Coldfusion Administrator that needs to be also set up in conjunction with the Mail Server?

Were you able to receive emails at the gmail account?

[Deb]

I just did a test and the mail was successfully sent.

Did you uncheck the "Sign" checkbox? When I turned that on, my connection would verify, but the mail would not be sent. Also, have you tried re-entering your gmail password? Perhaps you have a typo/error there?

Your settings on your gmail account page appear to be set the same as mine...

[Guest]

So, you have not configurated any email client at all? No, Microsoft Outlook? 

My password is the same. I tried again and connection stilled failed. Could it be my Server Settings?

I have a pdf version of my current Server Settings I would like to post, but I want to attach it as a file. Is this possible?

[Deb]

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.

[Deb]

Have you checked the mail.log file to see if any error information is being written there?

[Guest]

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

[Deb]

Everything looks ok to me in your settings. You're correct in using your full email address. My first test was on CF 7 and the second test was on CF 9.0.1.

Is there perhaps a firewall or something else on your network that might be blocking that traffic?

[Guest]

There could possibly a firewall blocking the traffic. I am looking into now.

[Guest]

I will tried to download CF 9 on another computer and see if I can setup the Gmail with that computer. If I can, then I know it is the firewall issue. If I cannot, then it will problem be my CF settings.