Sending Form-Based Email; Sending Query-Based Email - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 4.5-DEVELOPING WEB Develop Manual

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Use a query to send a customized mail message, such as a billing statement to a
list of recipients that is dynamically populated from a database.
Send a MIME file attachment along with a mail message.

Sending form-based email

In the example below, the contents of a customer inquiry form submittal are
forwarded to the marketing department. Note that the same application page could
also insert the customer inquiry into the database.
<CFMAIL FROM="#Form.EMailAddress#"
TO="marketing@allaire.com"
SUBJECT="Customer Inquiry">
A customer inquiry was posted to our Web site:
Name: #Form.FirstName# #Form.LastName#
Subject: #Form.Subject#
#Form.InquiryText#
</CFMAIL>

Sending query-based email

In the example below, a query ("ProductRequests") is run to retrieve a list of the
customers who have inquired about a product over the last seven days. This list is then
sent, with an appropriate header and footer, to the marketing department:
<CFMAIL QUERY="ProductRequests"
FROM="webmaster@allaire.com"
TO="marketing@allaire.com"
SUBJECT="ColdFusion status report">
Here is a list of people who have inquired about
Allaire ColdFusion over the last seven days:
<CFOUTPUT>
#ProductRequests.FirstName# #ProductRequests.LastName#
(#ProductRequests.Company#) - #ProductRequests.EMailAddress#
</CFOUTPUT>
Regards,
The WebMaster
webmaster@allaire.com
</CFMAIL>
Note the use of the nested CFOUTPUT tag to present a dynamic list embedded within
a normal CFMAIL message. The text within the CFOUTPUT is repeated for each row in
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