Introducing the <cfmail> Tag

You can use the <cfmail> tag to send email messages from your ColdFusion templates. After the server is set up correctly, you can use <cfmail> to send email messages to anyone with a standard Internet-style email address. As far as the receiver is concerned, the email messages you send with <cfmail> are just like messages sent via a normal email sending program, such as Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Eudora, OS X Mail, or the like.

Table 21.1 shows the key attributes for the <cfmail> tag. These are the attributes you will use most often. For clarity, they are presented here in a separate table. You have almost certainly sent email messages before, so you will immediately understand what most of these attributes do. ...

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