Been looking a lot lately at various email related projects. One of the issues I noticed as part of this work is that if you send a mail with cfmail to a gmail account that only has a cfmailpart text/plain gmail won’t render it.

If you send both, it works fine.

Plain
Strong HTML

So, if you’re sending plain only, don’t put it in a cfmailpart. Probably shouldn’t have been in the first place, but, issue now solved.

I think this is cool, even if no-one else does! Got an email today from an old colleague wishing me Merry Christmas, nothing out the ordinary there, but, when I looked at the details in gmail the email address I saw was “first.lastname@gmail.com” with a little note “(Yes, this is you)” by the side of it.

When I clicked on the find out more link I learnt that gmail ignores dots (.) in usernames. So, when all those people have asked “all one word?” on me giving out my email I can now say no, first.last or firstlast.

Mmm, geek.