How can I email using UTL_SMTP with a csv file as an attachment?

Question

Dear All,
It would be great if someone could help me. I am trying to use UTL_SMTP to email with a csv file as attachment. I do get an email with a message but no attachment arrives with it.
In fact the code used for attaching the csv file gets appended in the message body in the email.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE test_mail
AS
SENDER constant VARCHAR2(80) := '[email protected]';
MAILHOST constant VARCHAR2(80) := 'mailhost.xxxx.ac.uk';
mail_conn utl_smtp.connection;
lv_rcpt VARCHAR2(80);
lv_mesg VARCHAR2(9900);
lv_subject VARCHAR2(80) := 'First Test Mail';
lv_brk VARCHAR2(2) := CHR(13)||CHR(10);
BEGIN
mail_conn := utl_smtp.open_connection(mailhost, 25) ;
utl_smtp.helo(mail_conn, MAILHOST) ;
dbms_output.put_line('Sending Email to : ' ||lv_brk||'Suhas Mitra' ) ;
lv_mesg := 'Date: '||TO_CHAR(sysdate,'dd Mon yy hh24:mi:ss')||lv_brk||
'From: <'||SENDER||'>'||lv_brk||
'Subject: '||lv_subject||lv_brk||
'To: '||'[email protected]'||lv_brk||
'MIME-Version: 1.0'||lv_brk||
'Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1'||lv_brk||
' boundary="-----SECBOUND"'||
''||lv_brk||
'-------SECBOUND'||
'Some Message'
          || lv_brk ||
'-------SECBOUND'||
          'Content-Type: text/plain;'|| lv_brk ||
          ' name="xxxx.csv"'|| lv_brk ||
          'Content-Transfer_Encoding: 8bit'|| lv_brk ||
          'Content-Disposition: attachment;'|| lv_brk ||
          ' filename="xxxx.csv"'|| lv_brk ||
          lv_brk ||
'CSV,file,attachement'|| lv_brk ||     -- Content of attachment
lv_brk||
'-------SECBOUND' ;
dbms_output.put_line('lv_mesg : ' || lv_mesg) ;
utl_smtp.mail(mail_conn, SENDER) ;
lv_rcpt := '[email protected]';
utl_smtp.rcpt(mail_conn, lv_rcpt) ;
utl_smtp.data(mail_conn, lv_mesg) ;
utl_smtp.quit(mail_conn);
EXCEPTION
WHEN utl_smtp.transient_error OR utl_smtp.permanent_error THEN
NULL ;
WHEN OTHERS THEN
dbms_output.put_line('Error Code : ' || SQLCODE) ;
dbms_output.put_line('Error Message : ' || SQLERRM) ;
utl_smtp.quit(mail_conn) ;
END;

Answer 1

LKBrwn_DBA wrote:
Use UTL_MAIL instead.That package is an utter disappointment - and an excellent example IMO of how not to design an application programming interface. Even the source code is shoddy.. I mean, having to resort to a GOTO statement....!!?? The person(s) who wrote that package are sorely lacking in even the most basic of programming skills if structured programming is ignored and a spaghetti command used instead.
No wonder the public interface of that code is equally shabby and thoughtless... The mail demo code posted by Oracle was better written than this "+package+" they now have bundled as the official Mail API.
I dunno.. if I was in product management there would have been hell to pay over pushing cr@p like that to customers.