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Send e-mail with oracle
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JamesCrawford
MIS
I use the following procedure to send mail using outlook, you can play about with it so that you preview the mail before it is sent or choose to send it straight away (by just commenting out the 'display' or 'send' lines).
James
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PROCEDURE SENDMAIL IS
objOutlook OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
objMail OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
objArg OLE2.LIST_TYPE;
objAttach OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
BEGIN
objOutlook := OLE2.CREATE_OBJ('Outlook.Application');
objarg := OLE2.CREATE_ARGLIST;
OLE2.ADD_ARG(objarg,0);
objMail := OLE2.INVOKE_OBJ(objOutlook,'CreateItem',objarg);
OLE2.DESTROY_ARGLIST(objarg);
objAttach := OLE2.GET_OBJ_PROPERTY(objmail, 'Attachments');
objarg := OLE2.CREATE_ARGLIST;
OLE2.SET_PROPERTY(objmail,'To', '<E_MAIL ADDRESS>');
OLE2.SET_PROPERTY(objmail,'Subject','<SUBJECT>');
OLE2.SET_PROPERTY(objmail,'Body','<MESSAGE BODY>');
OLE2.ADD_ARG(objarg,'<ATTACHMENT>');
OLE2.INVOKE(objattach, 'Add', objarg);
OLE2.INVOKE(objmail,'Send');
OLE2.INVOKE(objmail,'Display');
OLE2.RELEASE_OBJ(objmail);
OLE2.RELEASE_OBJ(objOutlook);
END;
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James
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PROCEDURE SENDMAIL IS
objOutlook OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
objMail OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
objArg OLE2.LIST_TYPE;
objAttach OLE2.OBJ_TYPE;
BEGIN
objOutlook := OLE2.CREATE_OBJ('Outlook.Application');
objarg := OLE2.CREATE_ARGLIST;
OLE2.ADD_ARG(objarg,0);
objMail := OLE2.INVOKE_OBJ(objOutlook,'CreateItem',objarg);
OLE2.DESTROY_ARGLIST(objarg);
objAttach := OLE2.GET_OBJ_PROPERTY(objmail, 'Attachments');
objarg := OLE2.CREATE_ARGLIST;
OLE2.SET_PROPERTY(objmail,'To', '<E_MAIL ADDRESS>');
OLE2.SET_PROPERTY(objmail,'Subject','<SUBJECT>');
OLE2.SET_PROPERTY(objmail,'Body','<MESSAGE BODY>');
OLE2.ADD_ARG(objarg,'<ATTACHMENT>');
OLE2.INVOKE(objattach, 'Add', objarg);
OLE2.INVOKE(objmail,'Send');
OLE2.INVOKE(objmail,'Display');
OLE2.RELEASE_OBJ(objmail);
OLE2.RELEASE_OBJ(objOutlook);
END;
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Just thought I would add my 2 cents. We used the UTL_SMTP package routines to send email and it works well for us. Your database has to be set up properly with the Java Virtual Machine installed. I don't think the FAQ referenced above gives the instructions for this, but here is a link to a good article about it:
DBAwhosaysNIE
MIS
wouldn't it use less memory to have a small perl daemon listen to a queue and do the mailing?
they may have fixed this in 8.1.7 or 8.2 (a.k.a 9i) but when we tested using java within Oracle on 8.1.6 we found it to be a real pig.
our experience has been that it's almost always easier, faster & more reliable to do anything "fancy" (smtp, monitoring, messaging, etc.) in perl (or even just bash) than using Oracle supplied tools/packages.
they may have fixed this in 8.1.7 or 8.2 (a.k.a 9i) but when we tested using java within Oracle on 8.1.6 we found it to be a real pig.
our experience has been that it's almost always easier, faster & more reliable to do anything "fancy" (smtp, monitoring, messaging, etc.) in perl (or even just bash) than using Oracle supplied tools/packages.
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