Filtering Outbound Email

[Cerin]

On my development server, I'd like to filter all outgoing email and
replace the recipients with an arbitrary email address, in order to
prevent customers from being accidentally emailed.

Obviously, this could be done by removing customer addresses from the
database, but I'd like to keep these intact for testing various
reports that require unique addresses for each customer.

There doesn't seem to be any existing feature in Cfadmin for this. Any
thoughts on how I'd go about implementing this? One thought I had was
to create a script that would monitor CF's spool directory, and modify
any newly creating files, but I'm not sure how I'd guarantee the
script would see the files before CF.

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[Robert Nurse]

You don't have to remove email addresses from the DB.  <CFMAIL> can use a
query that discriminates recipients on some basis.  If it's that you don't
want other recipients to see other recipients' addresses, you could use the
BCC attribute.


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Chris Spencer <chrisspen@...> wrote:

> On my development server, I'd like to filter all outgoing email and
> replace the recipients with an arbitrary email address, in order to
> prevent customers from being accidentally emailed.
>
> Obviously, this could be done by removing customer addresses from the
> database, but I'd like to keep these intact for testing various
> reports that require unique addresses for each customer.
>
> There doesn't seem to be any existing feature in Cfadmin for this. Any
> thoughts on how I'd go about implementing this? One thought I had was
> to create a script that would monitor CF's spool directory, and modify
> any newly creating files, but I'm not sure how I'd guarantee the
> script would see the files before CF.
>
>

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[Mike Chabot]

Put conditionals before every cfmail tag to determine the recipients
based on which server environment you are in. It would help to have a
wrapper class around cfmail that handles this site-wide. I would not
try to monitor the spool folder. You can disable sending email
entirely in cfadmin, although you would need some alternate way to
test emails.

-Mike Chabot

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Chris Spencer <chrisspen@...> wrote:

> On my development server, I'd like to filter all outgoing email and
> replace the recipients with an arbitrary email address, in order to
> prevent customers from being accidentally emailed.
>
> Obviously, this could be done by removing customer addresses from the
> database, but I'd like to keep these intact for testing various
> reports that require unique addresses for each customer.
>
> There doesn't seem to be any existing feature in Cfadmin for this. Any
> thoughts on how I'd go about implementing this? One thought I had was
> to create a script that would monitor CF's spool directory, and modify
> any newly creating files, but I'm not sure how I'd guarantee the
> script would see the files before CF.

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[Wil Genovese]

Yikes - that could be an ugly amount of code if there are a lot of  
cfmail tags.

I'd make a mail CFC wrapper for the cfmail tag and then pass your mail  
params the the CFC.  This CFC can then control if is on the Dev server  
or not and adjust the ONE cfmail tag accordingly.



Wil Genovese

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-Andrew Jackson

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

On Dec 30, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Mike Chabot wrote:

> Put conditionals before every cfmail tag to determine the recipients
> based on which server environment you are in. It would help to have a
> wrapper class around cfmail that handles this site-wide. I would not
> try to monitor the spool folder. You can disable sending email
> entirely in cfadmin, although you would need some alternate way to
> test emails.
>
> -Mike Chabot
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Chris Spencer <chrisspen@...>  
> wrote:
>> On my development server, I'd like to filter all outgoing email and
>> replace the recipients with an arbitrary email address, in order to
>> prevent customers from being accidentally emailed.
>>
>> Obviously, this could be done by removing customer addresses from the
>> database, but I'd like to keep these intact for testing various
>> reports that require unique addresses for each customer.
>>
>> There doesn't seem to be any existing feature in Cfadmin for this.  
>> Any
>> thoughts on how I'd go about implementing this? One thought I had was
>> to create a script that would monitor CF's spool directory, and  
>> modify
>> any newly creating files, but I'm not sure how I'd guarantee the
>> script would see the files before CF.
>
>

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[Mike Chabot]

A conditional is five lines of trivial code that gets copy/pasted and
most sites don't have that many cfmail tags. For new sites I prefer a
wrapper class/function/custom tag, but it is often hard to retrofit an
established site with a sitewide cfmail replacement. The easiest
solution in the short term is to add in conditionals or disable the
cfmail tag in dev.

-Mike Chabot

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Wil Genovese <juggler@...> wrote:

> Yikes - that could be an ugly amount of code if there are a lot of
> cfmail tags.
>
> I'd make a mail CFC wrapper for the cfmail tag and then pass your mail
> params the the CFC.  This CFC can then control if is on the Dev server
> or not and adjust the ONE cfmail tag accordingly.
>
>
>
> Wil Genovese
>
> One man with courage makes a majority.
> -Andrew Jackson
>
> A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
>
> On Dec 30, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Mike Chabot wrote:
>
>> Put conditionals before every cfmail tag to determine the recipients
>> based on which server environment you are in. It would help to have a
>> wrapper class around cfmail that handles this site-wide. I would not
>> try to monitor the spool folder. You can disable sending email
>> entirely in cfadmin, although you would need some alternate way to
>> test emails.
>>
>> -Mike Chabot
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Chris Spencer <chrisspen@...>
>> wrote:
>>> On my development server, I'd like to filter all outgoing email and
>>> replace the recipients with an arbitrary email address, in order to
>>> prevent customers from being accidentally emailed.
>>>
>>> Obviously, this could be done by removing customer addresses from the
>>> database, but I'd like to keep these intact for testing various
>>> reports that require unique addresses for each customer.
>>>
>>> There doesn't seem to be any existing feature in Cfadmin for this.
>>> Any
>>> thoughts on how I'd go about implementing this? One thought I had was
>>> to create a script that would monitor CF's spool directory, and
>>> modify
>>> any newly creating files, but I'm not sure how I'd guarantee the
>>> script would see the files before CF.
>>
>>
>
>

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