Can I check the value of the mail server outside of Admin?

[TheDrider]

We use our application at several different locations on multiple servers. (Military stand-alone instances.) I would like to set up my email code to run regardless of whether or not a particular instance has a valid smtp server defined.

Currently the cfmail fails if the admin's SMTP server field is blank, so we have to set up a dummy server as in "no.email.server". Can I check this SMTP field for a value before calling cfmail?

Thanks much.

 

[silverspecv]

Well, it doesn't appear to be stored in the registry. There does seem to be a config file cfusionmx\lib\neo-mail.xml that contains the name of the mail server, but in a military installation, you might not be able to read it directly.. that'd be kind of iffy anyway. I'd just wrap it in a cftry and then put another version with the fake mail server in the cfcatch:

<cftry>
<cfmail etc..>
text
</cfmail>
<cfcatch type="any">
<cfmail server="alternate">
text
</cfmail>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>

You could even be slick and do something like this inside the cfcatch:

<cfset mailserverfile=getdirectoryfrompath(getcurrenttemplatepath())&"mailserver.txt">
<cfif fileexists(mailserverfile)>
<cffile action="read" file="#mailserverfile#" variable="mailserver">
<cfmail server="#mailserver#">
etc...
</cfif>

A lot of this will depend on what resources you have from the server of course