ColdFusion written in html page

Question

I'm very new to ColdFusion (this is my second day dealing with it) and I am implementing a simple HTML page. I have a feedback form on this page and when the user hits submit, I want to email the contents of the form to myself. I have to do it using cfmail.

To try it out before I implemented it, I created the following cfmail.cfm file:

<cfmail from="#form.from#" to="myemailaddress" type="html">
    Some text
</cfmail>

and passed the name of the file to the action attribute of my form. Every time I click submit on my form, it just opens the above file.

All the examples I find online pretty much show the same thing, but obviously I'm way off here.

Am I using cfmail in the wrong manner?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

Just like Evik said in the comments, add a subject because it is a required field for the cfmail tag.

<cfmail to="#form.mailto#" from="#form.mailFrom#" subject="#form.subject#">
  #form.body#
</cfmail>

Also check the mail settings in the ColdFusion administrator under Setting > Mail. There is also a mail log in the administrator you can check.

I recommend using Adobe online docs for ColdFusion. I referrer to it almost daily, they are great.

Here is a link to the cfmail for CF8 but at the bottom it links to other version.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_m-o_01.html

Answer 2

If it's just opening the file and not throwing a ColdFusion error (which it should do without the subject) then you most likely have a problem in your ColdFusion installation or more likely in the setup of your development web server is not handling the cfm scripts (IIS or Apache depending on the platform).