ColdFusion mail queue stops processing

Question

Our CF server occasionally stops processing mail. This is problematic, as many of our clients depend on it.

We found suggestions online that mention zero-byte fil

Answer 1

There is a bug in Ben Doom's code. Thank you anyway ben, the code is great, and we use it now on one of our servers with CF8 installed, but: if directory (\spool) is empty, the code fails (error: Date value passed to date function DateDiff is unspecified or invalid.) That's because if the query object spool is empty (spool.recordcount EQ 0), the datediff function produces an error.

we used this now:

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    1/2 action: ...try to restart. Send another mail if succeeded!
    #now()#

    Mails:
    #liste#
    

    
    
    
    

    
    
    2/2 action: ...succeeded!
    #now()#