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Using cfpop

Use the following steps to add POP mail to your application.

To implement the cfpop tag in your application:

  1. Choose the mailboxes to access within your ColdFusion application.
  2. Determine which mail message components you must process: message header, message body, attachments, and so on.
  3. Decide whether you must store the retrieved messages in a database.
  4. Decide whether you must delete messages from the POP server after you retrieve them.
  5. Incorporate the cfpop tag in your application and create a user interface for accessing a mailbox.
  6. Build an application page to handle the output. Retrieved messages can include ASCII characters that do not display properly in the browser.

You use the cfoutput tag with the HTMLCodeFormat and HTMLEditFormat functions to control output to the browser. These functions convert characters with special meanings in HTML, such as the less than (<), greater than (>), and ampersand (&) symbols, into HTML-escaped characters, such as &lt;, &gt;, and &amp;. The HTMLCodeFormat tag also surrounds the text in a pre tag block. The examples in this chapter use these functions.
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