Background jobs - AE session environment setup incorrect ?

Question

Hi,
I am trying to accomplish a small email queue myself,
as due to the current privileges I have no access to the
HTML Mail queue myself.
Thus I stored emails to be send in a regular table..
Sofar so good.
In order to really email the pending messages, I have created a
procedure which loops through all the pending messages and pushes them into
the HTML email queue using :
htmldb_mail.send( p_to => '<'|| v_mail.eml_to ||'>',
p_cc => '<'|| v_mail.eml_cc ||'>',
p_from => '<'|| v_mail.eml_from ||'>',
p_SUBJ => v_mail.eml_subject,
p_body => v_mail.eml_body);
htmldb_mail.push_queue();
I have tested the procedure manually, and it works..
To be user independent I have created a DBMS_JOB which call above procedure once an hour,
but this will give me following error on all pending emails :
ORA-20001: This procedure must be invoked from within an application session.
So far I can interprete this message is that a specific session environment has to be setup,
which ofcourse DMBS_JOB is not doing.
Therefor I tried :
declare
v_job number;
begin
v_Job := htmldb_plsql_job.submit_process('mail_pkg.processMailQueue;');
end;
The job gets into the queue, and I suppose it will set the environment so that all will go ok.
Unfortunatly I do not see any activity on the pending emails.. It appears not to be executed at all,
and I do not see anything happening.
Now my question is how to submit a job using the correct HTMLDB session being setup ?
with kind regards,
Fred

Answer 1

Hi Jes,
By 'not having access to the mail queue' I mean I do not have the priveleges to look at the mail queue using the regular HTML DB userinterface....
HOME => Application Builder => Application Administration => Email configuration => Manage Email Queue
result :
You have requested access to a page which requires specific database privileges. Enter the credentials for a database account that has been granted the DBA role.
I can however submit new emails into the HMTL queue programmatically as described by using the HTMLDB api calls.
My programmed procedure just submits a new email to be send using the HTMLDB api calls.
If I call the amentioned procedure from within a 'legal' HTML session
HOME => SQL => SQL Commands
it is executed just fine...
Execution of amentioned procedure outside of a legal HTMLDB session, e.g. by a regular DBMS_JOB will give the amentioned error...
The question now is :
*) How to programmatically build or instate a valid HTMLDB session so the procedure being called will run as if it was called from within a legal session.
My procedure submitting the emails must first setup a valid HTMLDB session before
submitting any emails via the HTMLDB api.
I was thinking in lines of :
PROCEDURE myEmailProc IS
BEGIN
-- Instate session
HTMLDB_pkg.createValidSession(p_user => 'FRED', p_password=>'MyPassword');
-- Submit to the email queue
..................................... existing functionality comes here
END;
regards,
Fred