Sending email from a stored procedure or trigger

Is it possible to send e-mail from an Oracle stored procedure or trigger. For example, I want to send mail to the...

relevant people if records in a table are older than a certain date.

Yes, using the UTL_SMTP package this is quite easy.

Here's an example directly from the Oracle documentation Supplied Packages Reference: The following code example illustrates how the SMTP package might be used by an application to send email. The application connects to an SMTP server at port 25 and sends a simple text message.

PROCEDURE send_mail (sender IN VARCHAR2,
recipient IN VARCHAR2,
message IN VARCHAR2)
IS
mailhost VARCHAR2(30) := 'mailhost.mydomain.com';
mail_conn utl_smtp.connection;
BEGIN
mail_conn := utl_smtp.open_connection(mailhost, 25);
utl_smtp.helo(mail_conn, mailhost);
utl_smtp.mail(mail_conn, sender);
utl_smtp.rcpt(mail_conn, recipient);
utl_smtp.data(mail_conn, message);
utl_smtp.quit(mail_conn);
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
-- Handle the error
END;

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