I know there are 3rd party email applications for CF ... Can
anyone point me to them and/or let me know if they have worked
better. I'm looking for more power with email (tracking, sending,
routing, etc).
Its been a couple of years, but I know we had a bidding
program written in CF that needed more power such as tracking
sending and routing. We have an exchange server, so we were able to
use that in conjunction with CF. (Exchange handled
the emailing instead of coldfusion). Not sure if this is an
option for you.
Yeah, that might be to much. Normally, CF will directly send
to your mailserver (usually IIS mail services) and if something
goes wrong your only options reside in looking at the CF logs if
you're logging mail. But I know there are some third party apps
that do more tracking/resending then send to your mail server (and
or better bulk mail processing). In your case you've just handled
it more complexly by using an Exchange Server. That will be
overkill for me plus a good amount of time learning and installing
(not to mention price tag).