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Developing applications

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DEVELOPING COLDFUSION 9 APPLICATIONS

Using External Resources

<cfmail from="daniel@MyCompany.com"

to="jacob@YourCompany.com"

subject="Requested Files">

Here are the files you requested.

Use a fully qualified system path for the

ColdFusion server machine (or a location on the local network), not the browser machine.

Including images in a message

You can use the

tag for each image following the

tag, do the following

attribute to the location of the image.

disposition="inline"

attribute to a unique identifier; for example, myImage1.

In the location in your HTML where you want the message included, use an

The following example shows a simple mail message with an inline image. In this case, the image is located between

paragraphs, but you could include it directly inline with the text. To test this example, replace the

with a valid e-mail address and change the

<cfmail type="HTML"

to = "Peter@myCo.com"

from = "Paul@AnotherCo.com"

subject = "Sample inline image">

<cfmailparam file="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\web.gif"

disposition="inline"

contentID="image1">

<P>There should be an image here</p>

<p> This text follows the picture</p>

Adding a custom header to a message

When the recipient of an e-mail message replies to the message, the reply is sent, by default, to the address specified in

the From field of the original message. You can use the cfmailparam tag to provide a Reply-To e-mail address that tells

the mail client to override the value in the From field. Using

addressed to widget_master@YourCompany.com:

attribute of

to include images from other files in an HTML message, as follows:

parameter to the path to a valid image.

Last updated 8/5/2010

. The file must be located on a drive on the

tag such as the following:

, the reply to the following example is