Send email from Oracle 10g Server

In order to send email within 10g you must install and set up the UTL_MAIL package.

UTL_MAIL isn't installed when the database is installed because the SMTP_OUT_SERVER parameter must be configured. Listing 1 shows how to install UTL_MAIL and the results from the script. You must connect to the database as user SYS and run the two scripts identified in the listing.

Listing 1. Installation of UTL_MAIL

Next, the SMTP_OUT_SERVER parameter must be configured. You must connect to SYS and then use the alter system command to configure SMTP_OUT_SERVER parameter as shown here:

That's it! The installation and setup for UTL_MAIL is complete. The UTL_MAIL ...

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package only has one procedure, called Send, for sending email (see Listing 2 for the syntax for the Send procedure). This package bundles the email message and sends it to the UTL_SMTP package, and then the email message is sent to the SMTP server.

Listing 2. Syntax for UTL_MAIL.SEND

Examples: I've created a database trigger that will send an email using UTL_MAIL (see Listing 3).

Listing 3. Database shutdown using UTL_MAIL

Conclusion

There are two other procedures within the UTL_MAIL package that make life easy: UTL_MAIL.ATTACH_VARCHAR2 and UTL_MAIL.ATTACH_RAW. These procedures are for varchar2 and raw attachments, respectively.

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