Question on self service application ... URGENT

Question

gurus,
i have the following requirement :-
1. a vendor comes to site
2. he has not logged in yet
3. he registers himself on the site thru a portal form (the portal form is on the public page)
4. as part of the registration, he/she enters his name, address, e-mail id, the username and the password for the account
what i want is, to grab the information from the table (the form is based of the custom databse table) and create a PORTAL USER with the username and password entered by the vendor when he registerd himself. AND i want to e-mail the vendor notifying that his account has been created.
how would i do this in portal ?
is there anyway i could create a user from behind the scenes and e-mail it to the vendor ?
any help would be appreciated.
thanx
hero
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Answer 1

This topic should help for creating the user programitcally: http://technet.oracle.com:89/ubb/Forum83/HTML/000146.html
I don't know about the email too much. I know that there is an SMTP package with iAS. I haven't used it and only briefly glanced at it on technet. Here's the link on it: http://technet.oracle.com/products/emailserver/listing.htm
But maybe someone else will know more about the email.