Monitoring The ColdFusion Mail Server With GMail And A Scheduled Task

code-1.cfm

<!--- Create a directory path to the undelivered mail folder. --->
<cfset undeliveredMailDirectory = "C:\ColdFusion8\Mail\Undelivr\" />

<!--- Query for the undelivered mail items in this directory. --->
<cfdirectory
	name="mailStubs"
	action="list"
	directory="#undeliveredMailDirectory#"
	sort="dateLastModified DESC"
	/>

<!---
	Check to see how many undelivered files we have. If we
	have more than the given threshhold, we need to alert the
	server administrator that something has crapped-out in the
	mail server.
--->
<cfif (mailStubs.recordCount gt 3)>

	<!---
		Too many emails have failed! Something is breaking on
		the server - might need a restart. Send email - of
		course, since MAIL SERVER IS BROKEN, we cannot use the
		configured mail server. Rather, we have to use a 3rd
		party mail service; in this case, Google Mail (GMAIL).
	--->
	<cfmail
		to="ben@bennadel.com"
		from="coldfusion@bennadel.com"
		subject="ColdFusion Mail Server Not Working (#mailStubs.recordCount# Undelivered Messages)"
		type="html"
		server="smtp.gmail.com"
		username="****"
		password="****"
		port="465"
		usessl="true">

		<h1>
			ColdFusion Mail Server Has Probably Failed
		</h1>

		<p>
			The following emails are sitting in the undelivered
			mail folder on the server:
		</p>

		<ul>
			<cfloop query="mailStubs">
				<li>
					#mailStubs.name# -
					#dateFormat( mailStubs.dateLastModified, "mm/dd/yyyy" )#
					at
					#timeFormat( mailStubs.dateLastModified, "hh:mm TT" )#
				</li>
			</cfloop>
		</ul>

		<p>
			You might want to consider restarting the service.
		</p>

	</cfmail>

</cfif>


<!--- Mail sent! --->
Done.