SMTP Password required

Question

My SMTP Server requires us to user a username/password. I noticed in the HTML DB Admin settings their is only options for server and port. How do I register a username/password?

Answer 1

You can use UTL_SMTP to send mail through a server that requires authentication by sending the authentication commands after connecting. I use a procedure like the one below. I submit it using DBMS_JOB.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE "SEND_MAIL" (
p_sender IN VARCHAR2,
p_recipient IN VARCHAR2,
p_message IN VARCHAR2
AS
l_mailhost VARCHAR2 (255) := 'your.outgoing.mailserver.address';
l_mail_conn UTL_SMTP.connection;
BEGIN
l_mail_conn := UTL_SMTP.open_connection (l_mailhost, 25);
utl_smtp.command( l_mail_conn, 'AUTH LOGIN');
utl_smtp.command( l_mail_conn, utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2( utl_encode.base64_encode( utl_raw.cast_to_raw( 'Your Mail UserName' ))) );
utl_smtp.command( l_mail_conn, utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2( utl_encode.base64_encode( utl_raw.cast_to_raw( 'Your Mail Password' ))) );
UTL_SMTP.helo (l_mail_conn, l_mailhost);
UTL_SMTP.mail (l_mail_conn, p_sender);
UTL_SMTP.rcpt (l_mail_conn, p_recipient);
UTL_SMTP.open_data (l_mail_conn);
utl_smtp.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Subject: Your Subject Line Here');
UTL_SMTP.write_data (l_mail_conn, p_message);
UTL_SMTP.close_data (l_mail_conn);
UTL_SMTP.quit (l_mail_conn);
END;