Emailing with PL/SQL for multiple domains

Question

Hey guys!
I've looked around within this forum and couldn't find the situation im trying to figure out. Im trying to build an email functionality within my dev laptop database instance. It seems like I need to have a email server set up. Is that correct? It makes me a little nervous if that is true. The database im working with will manage transactions from a few different internet companies, which will all have a different email server. I'm really hoping I will not have to set up an email server for each client this database handles.
Is there anyway to write an emailing procedure which will not use the database server's domain? Let me know. I've never dealt with email servers, so this is a bit confusing.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

did a little research and put in the code you had suggested. Now the execution is working with NO ERRORS!! The problem is, im not getting the email. Is there a way to debug the response from the SMTP? I dont think I got a message from it. Heres what im running, and im using 9i
create or replace procedure
e_mail_message
from_name varchar2,
to_name varchar2,
subject varchar2,
message varchar2
is
l_mailhost VARCHAR2(64) := 'mail.synapticdatabase.com';
l_from VARCHAR2(64) := '[email protected]';
l_to VARCHAR2(64) := '[email protected]';
l_subject VARCHAR2(64) := 'try it';
l_mail_conn UTL_SMTP.connection;
BEGIN
l_mail_conn := UTL_SMTP.open_connection (l_mailhost, 25);
utl_smtp.EHLO(l_mail_conn, l_mailhost);
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( '[email protected]'))) );
utl_smtp.command( l_mail_conn, utl_raw.cast_to_varchar2( utl_encode.base64_encode( utl_raw.cast_to_raw( 'lalalala' ))) );
utl_smtp.mail (l_mail_conn, p_sender);
UTL_SMTP.rcpt(l_mail_conn, l_to);
UTL_SMTP.open_data(l_mail_conn);
UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Date: ' || TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')||chr(13));
UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'From: ' || l_from || Chr(13));
UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Subject: ' || l_subject || Chr(13));
UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'To: ' || l_to || Chr(13));
UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, '' || Chr(13));
FOR i IN 1 .. 10 LOOP
UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'This is a test message. Line ' || To_Char(i) || Chr(13));
END LOOP;
UTL_SMTP.close_data(l_mail_conn);
UTL_SMTP.quit(l_mail_conn);
END;