Mail using smtp is going with to field blank

Question

Hi,
I am sending a mail using utl_smtp .receipient is getting the mail.but problem is that he is getting it with blank 'to field'.
Following is the code i wrote.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE mis_test_send_mail AS
pfrom VARCHAR2(100):='[email protected]';
crlf CONSTANT VARCHAR2(100):= CHR(13) || CHR(10);
message VARCHAR2(1000);
preceiver VARCHAR2(100):='[email protected]';
psubject VARCHAR2(100):='Test Mail';
mail_conn Utl_Smtp.connection;
mailhost CONSTANT VARCHAR2(50):='mailrelay.organization.com';
BEGIN
message:='How Are You'||crlf;
mail_conn:=Utl_Smtp.open_connection(mailhost);
utl_smtp.helo(mail_conn, mailhost);
utl_smtp.mail(mail_conn, pfrom);
utl_smtp.rcpt(mail_conn, preceiver);
utl_smtp.data(mail_conn, message);
utl_smtp.quit(mail_conn);
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
dbms_output.put_line('error :'||SQLERRM||''||SQLCODE);
END mis_test_send_mail ;
Any help on this is highly appreciated.
Regards,
Cheriyan

Answer 1

You need to include any headers that need to be shown in the mail in the message data. The headers section of the data needs to be separated from the body section by at least one blank line.
message:= 'From: "sender name" <[email protected]>' || crlf;
message:= message || 'To: "recipient" <[email protected]>' || crlf;
message:= message || 'Subject: this is only a test' ||crlf;
message:= message || crlf;
message:= message || 'How Are You' ||crlf;The utl_smtp.mail and utl_smtp.rcpt procedures just tell the recieving SMTP server who is sending it and who to deliver it to, but what the recipient sees is what's in the headers section of the utl_smtp.data payload.
You can take advantage of this in that you can include multiple calls to utl_smtp.rcpt, but not include them in the payload's header section. This is exactly what happens when you use your mail client to send blind carbon copies of an email.