Sending an Email from within an Oracle Package

Question

Hi,
I am trying to send an email from within a Oracle package Body. The code i have to do this is as follows: -
PROCEDURE send_mail(sender_in IN VARCHAR2,
recipient_in IN VARCHAR2,
date_from_in IN VARCHAR2,
date_to_in IN VARCHAR2) IS
-- Procedure to send e-mail
mailhost VARCHAR2(30) := '192.168.2.6';
crlf VARCHAR2(2) := CHR(13)||CHR(10);
--message VARCHAR2(32767);
message LONG;
mail_conn utl_smtp.connection;
reply VARCHAR2(512);
BEGIN
mail_conn := utl_smtp.open_connection(mailhost, 25);
message := 'Date: '||TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DD-MON-YY HH24:MI:SS')||crlf||
'From: <'||sender_in||'>'||crlf||
'Subject: ''Holiday Request'||crlf||
'To: '||recipient_in||crlf||
utl_smtp.helo(mail_conn, mailhost);
utl_smtp.mail(mail_conn, sender_in);
utl_smtp.rcpt(mail_conn, recipient_in);
utl_smtp.data(mail_conn, message);
utl_smtp.quit(mail_conn);
EXCEPTION
WHEN others THEN
RAISE;
END send_mail;
end holidays;
I have one question though. I am getting a ORA-29278 SMTP Transien Error: 421 Service Nota Available Error. I think this may be due to the 'Mailhost' value I have given in the above code. I have been informed that this should be the ip address of the mail server used or the ip address of the machine if it is being run locally. What would i need to put in here if i wish for an email to be sent from one hotmail address to another for example?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
Darren

Answer 1

hi
The funnier part is that
u can actually type in the sender's email id irrespective of the mail host used
Like @hotmail.com,@yahoo.com etc.
The receiver will get the mails from the email id that u wrote .
The problem u r facing is becoz of the incorrect mail host server ip address
Try to get in touch with the network admin for the mail server ip address
other way is
get the name it would be like
smtp.domain name .
hope that helps