CFMAIL and adding CC if needed

[Newsgroup_User]

I am currently looping over a list of email addresses and sending out the
mail to all users. I'd like to instead check to see if a variable is set,
and add the cc="" in the cfmail tag instead.

When I try this it fails, I simply did a <cfif MailCC neq
"">cc="name@site.com"</cfif> in the cfmail tag, but it doesn't seem to like
this.

Has anyone done anything similar?

Or how can I get this to work?

Thanks!

[Newsgroup_User]

i have not tried it, but i know several ways to make it work:

1) put your whole CFMAIL tag inside a cfif block checking for MailCC var
. you will have 2 complete cfmail tags - one executed when MailCC var
exists (this one will have the cc=".." attribute in it), another
(without cc) executed when MailCC var is empty:

<cfif len(trim(MAilCC))>
<cfmail cc="..." ...>
...
</cfmail>
<cfelse>
<cfmail ...><!--- no cc attrib in this one --->
...
</cfmail>
</cfif>

2) use attributeCollection attribute of cfmail tag. assumes you are on
cf8. (or is it only update 1 that allows using attributeCollection
together with in-tag attributes? if so, you have to be on cf8.0.1).

something like:

<cfscript>
mailAttr = {};
mailAttr.server = "mail.somedomain.com";
mailAttr.username = "...";
mailAttr.password = "...";
mailAttr.from = "name@somedomain.com";
mailAttr.subject = "mail subject here";
if (len(trim(MailCC)) gt 0)
mailAttr.cc = "ccname@somedomain.com";
</cfscript>

<cfmail to="..." attributeCollection="#mailAttr#">
...
</cfmail>

hth

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

[Dan_Bracuk]

quote:

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Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
I am currently looping over a list of email addresses and sending out the
mail to all users. I'd like to instead check to see if a variable is set,
and add the cc="" in the cfmail tag instead.

When I try this it fails, I simply did a <cfif MailCC neq
"">cc="name@site.com"</cfif> in the cfmail tag, but it doesn't seem to like
this.

Has anyone done anything similar?

Or how can I get this to work?

Thanks!

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You can never put one cf tag inside another like this.

<cftag1 <cftag2> </cftag2> >

To get it to work, my approach would be do the if/else stuff in advance and set a variable to either an empty string or "cc='whoever'". Then put that variable into your cfmail tag.

[Daverms]

Or else,

<cfmail to="email_id_goes_here" from="from_info_goes_here" subject="subject_goes_here" cc="#Iif(IsDefined('your_cc_variable') and len(your_cc_variable) gt 0,DE(your_cc_variable),DE(''))#">

[Newsgroup_User]

Ok, I tried:
<cfmail from="info@site.com" to="#mail#"
cc="#iif(isdefined("MailCC"),de("MailCC"),de(""))#" subject="Fencing e-mail
regarding #cReason#" type="html" replyto="#form.contactEmail#">

And it still send to the 1st email only, but not the MailCC.... and I am
manually setting that varialbe, so I know it has a value..........

Why isn't it sending to the MailCC??

"Daverms" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:g763qi$egd$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Or else,
>
> <cfmail to="email_id_goes_here" from="from_info_goes_here"
> subject="subject_goes_here" cc="#Iif(IsDefined('your_cc_variable') and
> len(your_cc_variable) gt 0,DE(your_cc_variable),DE(''))#">
>
>
>

[Daverms]

Hi Steve,

Couple of questions though,

i) Are you setting the MailCC variable somewhere in your page before the <cfmail> declaration. (Try a cfdump)?..

ii) What do you get when assigning
"#Iif(IsDefined('your_cc_variable') and
> len(your_cc_variable) gt 0,DE(your_cc_variable),DE(''))#" to a variable (using cfset) and printing it?...

[Newsgroup_User]

"Daverms" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:g78qnf$iac$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi Steve,
>
> Couple of questions though,
>
> i) Are you setting the MailCC variable somewhere in your page before the
> <cfmail> declaration. (Try a cfdump)?..

Yes, I'm manually setting the MailCC variable before the <cfmail> tag.
>
> ii) What do you get when assigning
> "#Iif(IsDefined('your_cc_variable') and
> > len(your_cc_variable) gt 0,DE(your_cc_variable),DE(''))#" to a variable
> (using cfset) and printing it?...

[Daverms]

Hi,

Can you please post your code?.

[Newsgroup_User]

I get the email address that is defined for 'your_cc_variable'

"Daverms" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:g7b0s9$5fk$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi,
>
> What do you get when outputting
>
> "#Iif(IsDefined('your_cc_variable') and
>> len(your_cc_variable) gt 0,DE(your_cc_variable),DE(''))#"
>

[Daverms]

Hi,

quote:

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I get the email address that is defined for 'your_cc_variable'

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Can you please be more specific about your last reply?.. Do you mean the solution that I provided you earlier is working?.