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Asked: 2026-06-10T19:58:28+00:00

I am making an app that creates a custom PDF, mails it and then

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I am making an app that creates a custom PDF, mails it and then deletes it. I have tested all 3 components separately and they work but when I put them together the email doesn’t send.

Is it possible that the attachment gets deleted before the email is sent even though the delete is after it in the script?

Here is my code. 

<!---Get the PDF--->
<cfscript>
    PDFBuilder = createobject("component", "form_admin.email.PDFBuilder" ); 
    pdf = PDFBuilder.createPDF(form_id);
</cfscript>

<!---Create link to the pdf --->
<cfscript>
    foo =  expandPath('../email/tmp/')  & pdf & '.pdf';
</cfscript>

<!---Create email--->
<cfmail to="will@hazardousfrog.com"
        from="will@hazardoufrog.com"
        subject="Jag intrest form. "
        type="text/html" >
    <cfmailparam file="#foo#">

    Dear #getEmail.title#, #getEmail.first_name# #getEmail.surname# <br />
    Attached is a PDF boucher telling you more information about the cars you were interested in.  <br />
    Best wishes <br />
    Jaguar <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
    This is not actually jaguar this is a test application by Hazardousfrog.
</cfmail>

<!---Delete the file after it has been sent ---> 
<cfif FileExists(#foo#)> 
    <cffile action="delete"
            file="#foo#">
<cfelse>
    <cfoutput >
        error
    </cfoutput>
    <cfabort>
</cfif>

Sorry if the code isn’t great I have only been doing CF for like 2 weeks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok I managed to get the answer from a work friend.

    When cfmail is processed the mail is saved into a spool and periodically sent out after about 3 mins.
    In my case it meant that the email PDF attachment was being deleted before the message could be sent so the mail was not sending.

    The coldFusion mail tag has an attribute to send it straight away or keep it spooled.

    spoolenable : Whether to spool mail or always send it Immediately.

    So to get it to get my code to work I added this line to my mail attributes.

    spoolenable="false"
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