How to send csv file as an attachment

Question

Hi,
I am able to create a csv file in this directory as "test.scv" using utl_file and some select statements.
Now I need to send this csv file as an attachment in email.
we have smtp installed on our server.
Please help me on this .
Thanks
Kind Regards

Answer 1

The first link takes in a filename (this would be the csv file you have already created) so nothing should be hard coded; it's just the parameters you pass in.
Doing a little more research (from the asktom article I posted previously) links to this [http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/pl_sql/htdocs/Utl_Smtp_Sample.html] which the real gold is at [http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/pl_sql/htdocs/maildemo_sql.txt]:
with examples how to use it at [http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/pl_sql/htdocs/mailexample_sql.txt].
To get the attachments working from a PL/sql application you will require one of the packages or a large amount of code.
here's the coded example for attaching files from the packages listed in maildemo_sql.txt from Oracle's website
REM Send an email with 2 attachments.
DECLARE
  conn      utl_smtp.connection;
  req       utl_http.req; 
  resp      utl_http.resp;
  data      RAW(200);
BEGIN
  conn := demo_mail.begin_mail(
    sender     => 'Me <[email protected]>',
    recipients => 'Someone <[email protected]>',
    subject    => 'Attachment Test',
    mime_type  => demo_mail.MULTIPART_MIME_TYPE);
  demo_mail.attach_text(
    conn      => conn,
    data      => '<h1>Hi! This is a test.</h1>',
    mime_type => 'text/html');
  demo_mail.begin_attachment(
    conn         => conn,
    mime_type    => 'image/gif',
    inline       => TRUE,
    filename     => 'image.gif',
    transfer_enc => 'base64');
  -- In writing Base-64 encoded text following the MIME format below,
  -- the MIME format requires that a long piece of data must be splitted
  -- into multiple lines and each line of encoded data cannot exceed
  -- 80 characters, including the new-line characters. Also, when
  -- splitting the original data into pieces, the length of each chunk
  -- of data before encoding must be a multiple of 3, except for the
  -- last chunk. The constant demo_mail.MAX_BASE64_LINE_WIDTH
  -- (76 / 4 * 3 = 57) is the maximum length (in bytes) of each chunk
  -- of data before encoding.
  req := utl_http.begin_request('http://www.some-company.com/image.gif');
  resp := utl_http.get_response(req);
  BEGIN
    LOOP
      utl_http.read_raw(resp, data, demo_mail.MAX_BASE64_LINE_WIDTH);
      demo_mail.write_raw(
        conn    => conn,
        message => utl_encode.base64_encode(data));
    END LOOP;
  EXCEPTION
    WHEN utl_http.end_of_body THEN
      utl_http.end_response(resp);
  END;
  demo_mail.end_attachment( conn => conn );
  demo_mail.attach_text(
    conn      => conn,
    data      => '<h1>This is a HTML report.</h1>',
    mime_type => 'text/html',
    inline    => FALSE,
    filename  => 'report.htm',
    last      => TRUE);
  demo_mail.end_mail( conn => conn );
END;
/Edited by: tanging on Dec 18, 2009 10:58 AM