Sending an SMS or Mail to mobiles through Oracle

Question

hi,
We have created a proc through which we can send a mail to our MailId. but my requirement is we need to send this mail as an SMS to mobiles through oracle.
Our code goes some thing like this:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE "EMAIL_ALERT" (v_From VARCHAR2,
v_Recipient VARCHAR2,
               v_Subject VARCHAR2,
v_Mail_Host VARCHAR2,
v_message VARCHAR2) AS
v_Mail_Conn utl_smtp.Connection;
crlf VARCHAR2(2) := CHR(13)||CHR(10);
v_Recipient1 VARCHAR2(50):='[email protected]';
v_Recipient2 VARCHAR2(50):='[email protected]';
v_Recipient3 VARCHAR2(50):='[email protected]';
BEGIN
v_Mail_Conn := utl_smtp.Open_Connection(v_Mail_Host,25);
utl_smtp.helo(v_Mail_Conn,v_Mail_Host);
utl_smtp.Mail(v_Mail_Conn, v_From);
utl_smtp.Rcpt(v_Mail_Conn, v_Recipient);
utl_smtp.Rcpt(v_Mail_Conn, v_Recipient1);
utl_smtp.Rcpt(v_Mail_Conn, v_Recipient2);
utl_smtp.Rcpt(v_Mail_Conn, v_Recipient3);
utl_smtp.DATA(v_Mail_Conn,
'Date: ' || TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'Dy, DD Mon YYYY hh24:mi:ss') || crlf ||
'From: ' || v_From || crlf ||
'Cc:' ||v_Recipient1|| crlf ||
'Cc:' ||v_Recipient2|| crlf ||
'Cc:' ||v_Recipient3|| crlf ||
'Subject: '|| v_Subject || crlf ||
'To: ' || v_Recipient || crlf || crlf ||
'Hi,'|| utl_tcp.crlf
||' '||CHR(13)||
v_message|| utl_tcp.crlf
||' '||CHR(13)||
'Thanks and Regards'|| utl_tcp.crlf||
utl_tcp.crlf
utl_smtp.Quit(v_mail_conn);
EXCEPTION
WHEN utl_smtp.Transient_Error OR utl_smtp.Permanent_Error THEN
RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20000, 'Unable To Send Mail: '||SQLERRM);
END Email_Alert;
Assuming the mobile number to be 9197016944444 where 91 represent the country code . please advice.
Regards
Edited by: vine on Apr 16, 2010 5:24 AM

Answer 1

vine wrote:
EXCEPTION
WHEN utl_smtp.Transient_Error OR utl_smtp.Permanent_Error THEN
RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20000, 'Unable To Send Mail: '||SQLERRM);
END Email_Alert;Ugly. What you are doing here is taking a meaningful exception and making it meaningless. The caller knows that the send mail fail. It is after all getting a raised exception in response.
What is important for the caller is to evaluate the error. Determine a) what happened and then b) determine what to do about it.
The what happened is determined from the exception error code. Only, you now went and changed the meaningful application error code to -20000.
Do not make exceptions meaningless!
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Assuming the mobile number to be 9197016944444 where 91 represent the country code . please advice.Advice exactly what? You cannot send a SMS via e-mail.
What you can do is send a specially formatted e-mail (specific recipient/subject) to a mail server, where this mail server has special code/plug-ins/processes that can reformat the e-mail as a SMS and then forward it to a SMS gateway server that can pass it to the cellular provider's network for processing and delivery.
Do you have such a mail server? Does it interface with a SMS Gateway (or similar) server?