cfmail not working on cf9 - coldfusion

CFMail was working fine on coldfusion 9. Then suddenly it stopped sending the email. The log says email sent sucessfully but no one received it.
It seems it is a know issue as discussed here - adobe forum
Anyone has got any idea then please tell me. client is going mad here.

I got it working. My client changed the from email from the setting page which we provide and they entered an invalid email address which was then failing at the SMTP server end with "invalid return path" as error.
After adding a valid email id it worked.

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How can I work with cfmail failto attribute?

I've checked with the cfmail tag. But, if we use failto attribute. It doesn't work to me. So, what can I do? Could you please provide an exact answer to me?
There are many variables at play here but we rely on failto to function for a high volume email system so I can confirm it works. The underlying thing that is happening is that it lets you specify the envelope FROM for the message (what the email server sees) separately from the header FROM (what the receiving user sees). Envelope from can be considered like the reply address on a physical envelope and the header FROM like an address on the letter inside the envelope. If failto is not included in the cfmail tag then they are one in the same.
If the failto is being ignored for some reason or a mail server chooses to ignore it then then the header From address (cfmail from attribute) should be getting the bounce.
If the From address is not getting a bounce then your email is likely just not going out. The message has to reach the mail server for the bounce to occur. If ColdFusion is just failing to reach the mail server then mail will end up in the undelivr folder in your CF instance Mail directory. If that is happening then go into your CF admin interface and ensure the mail server can connect. To retry a message you can just move from undelivr to spool directory.
None of the above an issue? Make sure that you can send an email through your mail server to the failto address you are trying to use, otherwise there is no point in putting that address in the failto attribute.
If you're not getting a return email for failures, it's probably because the target email's server isn't set up to return a notification of failed delivery.
See here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/ColdFusion/CFMail-How-do-I-know-if-email-is-bounced/td-p/2001466

my opencart checkout page show,internal server error

i was trying to integrate zoho email with my opencart website,as my hostgator team suggested,to point to the domain first,so it was already did,so i deleted an old one and point again to zoho,and after that pointing thing,my payumoneys stop working.
i am really sure,that i didnt delete anyfile from anywhere,but still got internal server error,i dont get it why is this happening,this is my first time to integrate payment gateway with opencart,somebody please give me some,solution for this.enter image description here
It sounds like you've switched your mail settings in OpenCart from "mail" to "SMTP" and tried to configure Zoho?
If the SMTP settings are wrong it could throw an error at the checkout and if your server is not configured to display errors these will appear in the error log only - not on the page.
You should try switching back to "mail" to see if that solves the issue and that would then confirm the above diagnosis.

Partially Delivered Email Causes Error in CF10

My company just turned on sender validation for the SMTP relay. So in the old days, I could send an email to nobody#company.com and it would not result in any error. Now, that email results in this:
"Error","scheduler-2","10/31/16","09:04:49",,
"com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException:
250 2.0.0 xxxxxxxx-1 Message accepted for delivery ;
nested exception is: com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPAddressFailedException:
550 5.1.1 User Unknown on Mail Relay"
Is there anything I can do via JVM arguments or anything else to ignore these errors and consider the email sent? There's a box where we send out 2-3K emails a day and there's about 1K of "undelivered" emails now on a daily basis. :(
The exception SMTPAddressFailedException is a result of a failed authentication on the mail server, so this is not related to the JVM configuration at all. ColdFusion simply builds mail content and adds it to the mail spooler. Due to the async. nature of a spooler, you cannot catch these errors at runtime.
Your only option is to communicate with the actual mail server before using cfmail (and ask if the sender is legit). However, as far as I know there is no built-in function/tag/tool in CF to do so.

Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to graph.facebook.com:8000 FB UnitySDK

I have been trying to post some achievements in game with following code:
FB.API(FB.UserId +"/"+achievementType,
Facebook.HttpMethod.POST,
AchievementCallback,formData);
but the result is sometimes posted on my activity log and sometimes it fails to post with the message
"Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to graph.facebook.com:8000" while sometimes it is sucessful with post ID. I have tested the achievement files from facebook API explorer and also from POSTMAN plugin and it successfully posted it using both of them with post ID. But when I try to post the achievement from Unity3d it fails sometimes and works sometimes. Does anyone know what i am doing wrong while posting using UnitySDK?
Note: I have hosted these files on Github. Example AchievementFileLink
If anyone has suggestion please let me know.
The workaround I found out for this is whenever the above error happens I again send the request in the callback method to post achievement and it gets published on my game activity successfully. This should not be the intended behaviour and is very bad practice but for time being ill take this as an answer.

CFMail with catchall email addresses

I can't believe I've never noticed this before, but it seems that CFMail won't send to an email address that isn't explicitly set up on the destination mailserver.
This means that if I'm using 'info#somedomainorother.com' and have that set up to catch all email on the domain, CFMail won't send to 'test#somedomainorother.com'.
This causes a massive amount of problems for me, as I'm using CFMail to send out order confirmations, member activations and all manner of other bits and pieces.
Whatever your views on using catchall addresses, it can't be denied that people do use them So, in any case that a user enters a made-up address into one of my sites, they won't receive their email.
There must, simply MUST be a way around this - can anyone help?
For refernece, the message that appears in the logs when sending to a catchall address is 'Invalid Addresses'.
EDIT: Here's the CFMail syntax I'm using -
<cfmail to="#Arguments.sEmailAddress#" from="#Application.sAppEmailAddress#" subject="Stock reminder confirmation: #Local.qGetProductDetails.sProductName# - #Application.sCompanyName#" type="HTML" server="#Application.sAppEmailServer#" username="#Application.sAppEmailAddress#" password="#Application.sAppEmailPassword#">
Translates into:
<cfmail to="thisisatest#somedomainorother.com" from="application#mydomainname.com" subject="Stock reminder confirmation: Some product - My Company" type="HTML" server="mail.mydomainname.com" username="application#mydomainname.com" password="XXXXXX">
All works fine for info#somedomainorother.com but not for randombunchofcharacters#somedomainorother.com.
Important to note of course, that the catch-all is working correctly in all other respects, test emails from mail clients work perfectly.
Its not ColdFusion that cares about email validity, its the SMTP server. CF only cares about well formed email addresses.
If you initiated a telnet session to your mail server and tried to use the same address, I'm sure it would have the same result.
Debugging tips for SMTP Connectivity:
http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2004/11/22/debug-smtp
Can I see your CFMAIL tag setup? CFMAIL doesn't care as long as the email address is properly formatted.
Urgh!
Turns out it was an issue with the server. For some reason, catchall email accounts serverwide had stopped working properly. After an email to my hosting provider, it's all working fine with no code changes.
They're somewhat cagey as to what caused the issue, and I was still able to use an email client to send mail out to the addresses...
Thanks for the help in any case. ;)