cfmail

The SMTP server details are provided through the Administrator.

<cfmail to="recipient@example.com" from="sender@example.com" subject="Example email">
  Your Email Message!!
</cfmail>

The SMTP server details are provided in code.

<cfmail to="recipient@example.com" from="sender@example.com" subject="Example email" server="smtp.example.com" port="25" username="myUsername" password="myPassword">
  Your Email Message!!
</cfmail>

Loop through database records and sends one email per row.

<cfset myQuery = queryNew( "recipient,lastname,firstname" )>
<cfset queryAddRow( myQuery, { recipient = "recipient@example.com", lastname = "Doe", firstname = "John" }) />

<cfmail to="#recipient#" from="sender@example.com" subject="Example email" query="myQuery">
  Dear #lastname#,

  Text here, containing any variable in the myQuery scope.
</cfmail>

CF 9+ The cfmail features are also available through the mail component.

savecontent variable="mailBody" {
  writeOutput( "Your Email Message!!" );
};

// Create and populate the mail object
mailService = new mail(
  to = "recipient@example.com",
  from = "sender@example.com",
  subject = "Example email",
  body = mailBody
);

// Send
mailService.send();

CF 11+ Send basic email using function call.

cfmail( to = "recipient@example.com", from = "sender@example.com", subject = "Example email" ) { WriteOutput( "Your Email Message!!" ); }