cfmail is not working properly

Question

I am trying to send email using following script but it's not working and throwing error:

<cfmail to="user@mydomain.com" 
            from="user@mydomain.com" 
           <!---  subject="#sub#"   --->
            type="html" 
            server="smtp.sendgrid.net" 
            timeout="360" 
            username="un" 
            password="psw"  >

            <cfmailparam name="X-SMTPAPI" value="{\"category\":\"Cool Emails\"}">
            <cfoutput>
                Hello
            </cfoutput>
     </cfmail>

Error is :Invalid token \ found on the <cfmailparam tag line

I have tried removing tags as well still it didn't work.

What tags did you try removing and what were the details of "still didn't work"? — Dan Bracuk, Dec 09 '13 at 20:27

Miguel-F · Answer 1 · 2013-12-09T20:36:13.727

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That is not how you escape quotes in CFML. You should be able to just double them up. Like so:

<cfmailparam name="X-SMTPAPI" value="{""category"":""Cool Emails""}">

Or you could use single-quotes to surround your values instead of double quotes. This will allow you to use double-quotes within your values. Like so:

<cfmailparam name='X-SMTPAPI' value='{"category":"Cool Emails"}'>

Also, in your example you do not need to use <cfoutput> tags within the <cfmail> tags.

edited Dec 09 '13 at 20:36

answered Dec 09 '13 at 20:06

Miguel-F

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Sometimes you do need to use cfoutput tags within a cfmail block. This is not one of those times. – Dan Bracuk Dec 09 '13 at 20:30
That's what I meant Dan; in the example they are not needed. I will clarify in my answer. – Miguel-F Dec 09 '13 at 20:35

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