Apex emailing functionality

Question

Hello all,
i have trawled the net for info on the apex email functionality, nothing seems to be what i am after i don't think!
I would like to be able to set up something that emails a group of select people (which i can specify) every time someone inserts a new row into a table using a form on apex. How would I go about doing this?
Using: apex version 3.2.1 (due to upgrade shortly, there isnt many of us on the apex team, just me in fact!) and HTTP Server to host
Thanks in advance !

Answer 1

Hi,
You can use util_tcp package for this
See below
01. Create below procedure
PROCEDURE Send_Mail (sender    IN VARCHAR2, recipient IN VARCHAR2, subject IN VARCHAR2, message   IN VARCHAR2)
IS
    rc NUMBER;--integer;
    mailhost   VARCHAR2(30) := '127.0.0.1';
    mail_port NUMBER(2) :=25;
    mail_conn   utl_tcp.connection;
BEGIN
    --debug_message('-------------------------------------:: Send_Email ::-------------------------------------');
    mail_conn := utl_tcp.open_connection(mailhost, mail_port);
    dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(mail_conn, TRUE));
      rc := utl_tcp.write_line(mail_conn, 'HELO '||mailhost);
      dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(mail_conn, TRUE));
      rc := utl_tcp.write_line(mail_conn, 'MAIL FROM: '||sender);
      dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(mail_conn, TRUE));
      rc := utl_tcp.write_line(mail_conn, 'RCPT TO: '||recipient);
      dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(mail_conn, TRUE));
      rc := utl_tcp.write_line(mail_conn, 'DATA');                 -- Start message body
      dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(mail_conn, TRUE));
      rc := utl_tcp.write_line(mail_conn, 'Subject: '||subject);
      rc := utl_tcp.write_line(mail_conn, message);
      rc := utl_tcp.write_line(mail_conn, '.');                    -- End of message body
      dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(mail_conn, TRUE));
      rc := utl_tcp.write_line(mail_conn, 'QUIT');
      dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(mail_conn, TRUE));
      utl_tcp.close_connection(mail_conn);
    EXCEPTION
        WHEN OTHERS THEN
             dbms_output.put_line(SQLCODE||'-'||SQLERRM);
END Send_Mail;02. Then create a trigger on your table as below and call this procedure
CREATE TRIGGER your_table_name_trg
BEFORE INSERT
ON your_table_name REFERENCING NEW AS New OLD AS Old
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
Send_Mail(sender='[email protected]', recipient='recipient email addresses', subject=>'subject of the email' , message=>'Content of the email');
END your_table_name_trg;* If this answer is helpfull or correct then please mark it and grant the points.