A stored procedure to send email
A stored procedure to send an email message using the Oracle utl_smtp package.
Here is a stored procedure to send an email message using Oracle's utl_smtp package. I tested this on Oracle 8.1.7...
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running on HP UX 10.20 system, with the Exchange server is installed on an NT 4 SP6 machine.
Create or replace PROCEDURE send_mail (sender IN VARCHAR2, recipient IN VARCHAR2, message IN VARCHAR2, nStatus OUT NUMBER) IS mailhost VARCHAR2(30) := 'email.hai.iec.co.il'; mail_conn utl_smtp.connection; BEGIN nStatus := 0; 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 nStatus := SQLCODE; END send_mail;
If the mail host name is verified as OK, you use the stored procedure by running this (in SQL*Plus, for example):
var s number exec send_mail ('[email protected]','[email protected]','test text msg',:s);
The recipient should be a valid email, the sender can be a fictitious Oracle server email.
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