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Decide whether you must delete messages from the POP server after you retrieve them.
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Incorporate the
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Build an application page to handle the output. Retrieved messages can include ASCII
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characters that do not display properly in the browser.
You use the
cfoutput
output to the browser. These functions convert characters with special meanings in HTML, such
as the less than (<), greater than (>), and ampersand (&) symbols, into HTML-escaped
characters, such as &lt;, &gt;, and &amp;. The
tag block. The examples in this chapter use these functions.
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The cfpop query variables

Like any ColdFusion query, each
information:
•
RecordCount
•
CurrentRow
query-driven loop.
You can reference these properties in a
query name in the
<cfoutput>
This operation returned #Sample.RecordCount# messages.
</cfoutput>

Handling POP mail

This section provides an example of each of the following uses of POP mail:
•
Retrieving only message headers
•
Retrieving a message
•
Retrieving a message and its attachments
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Deleting messages
Retrieving only message headers
You can retrieve only the headers of your messages by using the
attribute of the
action
message, ColdFusion returns a query object that contains one row for each message in the
specified mailbox. The query object, whose name is specified in the
tag, consists of the following fields:
•
date
•
from
•
messageNumber
•
replyTo
•
subject
•
cc
•
to
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tag in your application and create a user interface for accessing a mailbox.
cfpop
tag with the
HTMLCodeFormat
cfpop
The total number of records returned by the query.
The current row of the query being processed by
cfoutput
attribute of
name cfpop
tag. Whether you use
cfpop
and
HTMLEditFormat
HTMLCodeFormat
query returns two variables that provide record number
tag by prefixing the query variable with the
:
to retrieve the header or the entire
cfpop
functions to control
tag also surrounds the text in a
or
cfoutput cfloop
value for the
GetHeaderOnly
attribute of the
name
in a
cfpop