EMail and SQLPLUS activity in process flow

Hi Guys,
I am struggling to get the email activity working. I entered all the details but no email is sent?
Secondly, I had an easy sql plus script that I pasted into the script property box
But the sqlplus just does not execute?
truncate table xxx;
quit
Any ideas?

Make sure there are no spaces after you have replaced DISABLED with NATIVE_JAVA.
Any space after the NATIVE_JAVA will not work.
Can you give details like what are you using Script or Parameter list etc ?
Did you configure the deployed location for the SQLPLus parameter ??
Regarding Your EMAIL -
Is your process flow showing any error regarding email ??
Create a simple process flow with email activity only.
Set FROM_EMAIL , TO_EMAIL , SUBJECT ,MESSAGE_BODY, SMTP_SERVER , PORT
SMTP_SERVER and PORT values are very important.
Check connection to SMTP_SERVER by running the following command on dos prompt
telnet smtp_server_name port
If this works this means your smtp server is working. Now just deploy and run your processs flow.
If it still doen't send you email, check whats in the log.
The log should give you any errors regarding email like ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_TCP", line 17 ,etc (if any).
Thanks,
Sam.

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