<cfpop>

Retrieves and deletes e-mail messages from a POP mail server.

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This tag is also supported within <cfscript>


		<cfpop
    connection=string
    server=string
    uid=string
    port=number
    username=string
    password=string
    secure=boolean
    action=getHeaderOnly|getAll|delete
    name=string
    messageNumber=string
    attachmentPath=string
    timeout=number
    debug=boolean
    maxRows=number
    startRow=number
    generateUniqueFilenames=boolean
    delimiter=string
>

Attribute	Description	Default
connection _{string, optional}	label for a connection.
server _{string, optional}	Host name biff.upperlip.com or IP address 192.1.2.225 of the POP server.
uid _{string, optional}	UID or a comma-delimited list of UIDs to get or delete. Invalid UIDs are ignored.
port _{number, optional}	Defaults to the standard POP port, 110.
username _{string, optional}	If no user name is specified, the POP connection is anonymous.
password _{string, optional}	Password that corresponds to user name.
secure _{boolean, optional}	enables SSL for pop requests
action _{string, optional}	Specifies the mail action. getHeaderOnly: returns message header information only getAll: returns message header information, message text, and attachments if attachmentPath is specified delete: deletes messages on POP server	getHeaderOnly
name _{string, optional}	Name for the index query. _{Alias: variable}
messageNumber _{string, optional}	Can be a comma-separated list of the message ids
attachmentPath _{string, optional}	Allows attachments to be written to the specified directory when action = "getAll". If an invalid attachmentPath is specified, no attachment files are written to the server.
timeout _{number, optional}	Specifies the maximum time, in seconds, to wait for mail processing. Defaults is 60 seconds.
maxRows _{number, optional}	Sets the number of messages returned, starting with the number in the startRow attribute. This attribute is ignored if messageNumber is specified.
startRow _{number, optional}	Specifies the first row number to be retrieved. Default is 1. This attribute is ignored if messageNumber is specified.
generateUniqueFilenames _{boolean, optional}	Boolean indicating whether to generate unique filenames for the files attached to an e-mail message to avoid naming conflicts when the files are saved. Default is NO.
delimiter _{string, optional}	Character that separates uid list, The default value is comma(,). _{Alias: delimiters}

Unimplemented Attribute(s)

Attribute	Description	Default
debug _{boolean, optional}	this attribute is deprecated and ignored, log control happens via the logging framework directly. * deprecated *

Examples

Action getAll

<cfpop action="getAll" username="#username#" password="#password#" server="#server_name#" uid="#uid#" name="res">
<cfdump var="#res#" />

<cfpop action="getAll" username="#username#" password="#password#" server="pop.mail.com" port="995" secure="true" name="message"
maxrows = "15" attachmentpath="#expandpath('./')#">
<cfdump var="#message#" />

Action getHeaderOnly

<cfpop action="getHeaderOnly" username="#username#" password="#password#" server="pop.mail.com" name="getHeader">
<cfdump var="#getHeader#" />

Action delete

<cfpop action="delete" username="#username#" password="#password#" server="pop.mail.com" uid="1RaJA7-1ioN2e27mu-00thu">

<cfpop>

Unimplemented Attribute(s)

Examples

Action getAll

Action getHeaderOnly

Action delete

See also