Send an email with attacment via PL/SQL

Question

Hi Guru's,
First of all thank you some much to help me all the time.
I need to send an email via pl/sql with attachment. Email is simple but i need to attache the file from the directory on the server. File already created from different process only i need to use that file for attachment and send an email.
I am using utl_smtp for email.
Could you please help me out
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards

Answer 1

user590978 wrote:
I need to send an email via pl/sql with attachment. Email is simple but i need to attache the file from the directory on the server. File already created from different process only i need to use that file for attachment and send an email.
I am using utl_smtp for email.You need to read the file from the directory - and format an e-mail using MIME (<i>Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions</i>). As part of this Mime e-mail body, your code needs to add the contents of the file.
If the file is binary, the file's contents have to base64 encoded before adding it a Mime attachment to the e-mail body.
The complete e-mail body is then send using the SMTP DATA command.
You can also use UTL_MAIL - it creates a Mime body for the e-mail and supports a single (small) attachment. However, you still need to read the file from disk using UTL_FILE or DBMS_LOB.LoadFromFile() and pass the file contents to UTL_MAIL for base64 encoding and attachment.
There is no standard Oracle PL/SQL interface that supports reading the file from disk to attach to the e-mail body - so the file reading part you need to do yourself.
If the file is large, then UTL_MAIL (a poorly designed and written interface) will be unable to handle it. In which case you also need to write the base64 encode and generation of a Mime e-mail body with attachments.