Send email from PL/SQL trigger on Solaris

Question

I searched all of the Oracle site looking for this capability, and found many messages several months old essentially saying there is no easy way to do this. I thought I remembered seeing an example of this in the online documentation, but of course I can't find that now. Is there any simple way of sending email from within an insert trigger written with PL/SQL?

Answer 1

Try the pl/sql code below.
create or replace PROCEDURE send_test_message
IS
mailhost VARCHAR2(64) := '191.168.251.207'; -- ip address of the mail server.
sender VARCHAR2(64) := '[email protected]';
recipient VARCHAR2(64) := '[email protected]';
mail_conn utl_smtp.connection;
BEGIN
mail_conn := utl_smtp.open_connection(mailhost, 25);
utl_smtp.helo(mail_conn, mailhost);
utl_smtp.mail(mail_conn, sender);
utl_smtp.rcpt(mail_conn, recipient);
utl_smtp.open_data(mail_conn);
utl_smtp.write_data(mail_conn, 'Your leave is Cancelled due to xyz...reason ' || chr(13));
utl_smtp.write_data(mail_conn, 'This is line 2.' || chr(13));
utl_smtp.close_data(mail_conn);
utl_smtp.quit(mail_conn);
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
-- Insert error-handling code here
NULL;
END;