Delivering undelivered emails in ColdFusion 4.5,5, MX 6.1 and MX 7 Servers


An email Server can be configured under mail options in Coldfusion Administrator .
CF administrator can be reached using the following url

When CF application generates email. Email is sent in to directory called Spool.

When CF server was unable to deliver the emails, undelivered emails are sent in to a folder called undelivered (under mail folder of CF administrator). The following are the possible reasons for an undeliverable email

  • Un availability of Mail server
  • Unknown Recipient (wrong email address)


To deliver the emails use the following steps to resend the emails

Copy the undelivered emails from undelivered directory to spool directory; Next Time When CF servers spools the emails, copied emails will be delivered. When CF Server running in UNIX use user id nobody to copy the emails to spool directory