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I don't normally blog about SpoolMail, but this is a pretty significant update. Mek Logan sent in a set of updates that dramatically improve the speed. I tested with 666 emails (pure chance, I swear) and the difference before and after was dramatic. The main thing he changed was to stop parsing the body of emails when generating the list of emails. The body is now only parsed on view. Which makes perfect sense of course and I wish I had noticed it first. Anyway, grab the 1.4 release from RIAForge: http://spoolmail.riaforge.org

A few cool updates today. BlogCFC now supports comment moderation. This is a feature people have been asking about for a long time, and it's finally in, thanks to Trent Richardson. Secondly, I updated SpoolMail. I cleaned up the UI a bit and added pagination to the mail display. This will make the application a heck of a lot faster for servers with a lot of email in the undelivered folder.

Just a quick note that I updated SpoolMail this morning. I didn't get a chance to blog it till now. The changes include some bug fixes and suggestions from Peter Farrel and Todd Sharp.

I released a small update to SpoolMail this morning. I was working on a project this morning (at 5AM, now that I'm not sick anymore it's back to 5 or so hours of sleep at night) and realized that I couldn't use SpoolMail to check the CC or BCC values of mails. That is now done. I also added a simple Refresh button to the top frame. For those who may not know (and it's been many months since the last release), I built SpoolMail as a way of reading the mail files that ColdFusion generates on a box with no mail server. This is a handy way to check the mail generated by your application without having to open a bunch of text files. It basically adds a simple mail reader to the ColdFusion administrator. (I assume most folks know how to add entries to the ColdFusion Admin, right? If not, let me know and I'll have an excuse to blog again. :)

This is a small update, written by Steve 'Cutter' Blades (no.junk at comcast.net). It adds a "Select All" JavaScript doohicky so you can quickly select all of the emails in the folder. Very, very handy for clearing out old stuff (or moving all back to the spool). This is version 1.0.1 and can be downloaded from the SpoolMail project page. This build was brought to you by the Smiths, "How Soon is Now", one of the absolute best songs ever created. The kind of song I think Beethoven would probably like.

SpoolMail has been updated to version 1(it makes sense, really, I released it at version 0). What's new? Well now I actually include the CF Admin Application.cfm file. This means that the application will now be password protected like the rest of the admin. (Duh.) I also had some good fixes sent in by users, including:

• A timeout so a directory full of files won't time out the code.
• Handling of zero-length mail files.

Enjoy! As always, you can download the code from the project page. What projects are next in line to get some good ole Jedi love? Harlan Ad Server will have a minor update this week. I didn't actually think people would use it - but they are and are sending in some good comments. After that I have a bigger update coming for Lighthouse Pro.

I made two minor updates to SpoolMail. First off - I got rid of the Application.cfc file and changed it to a Application.cfm file provided by Phillip Duba. Now - let me be clear. Application.cfc is much better than Application.cfm. But since this was the only thing preventing the application from working in CFMX6 (and 5 most likely), it seemed like a good call. Secondly, I added the ActivateURL UDF to the message display. This will auto-hot link any URL/email address. These links should pop open a new window. Oh - and I added a license. If you have any questions on the license, just let me know. You can download the application from the project page.

So - here is a problem. You use to generate some mail on your dev box. Since you aren't hooked up to a "real" mail server, to check the mail you need to dig down to your undelivered folder. Wait for it to show up. Open the file, and then ignore all the mail header junk and see if the mail came out ok. This works - but is a pain. Especially now that I run multiple ColdFusion servers under JRun. Sure I could add a shortcut to my desktop, but then I'd have to minimize my desktop, and that's just too much work. Enter SpoolMail. [More]

Date Published: Jan 16, 2006 - 3:19 pm