Sending email from HTMLDB - what happens after submit?

Question

I have read the "How To" document on sending email from HTMLDB but it is very vague on what is suppose to happen after submitting the process. After I submit the process that calls HTMLDB_MAIL.SEND, how do I track down what is suppose to happen? How do I debug it? All it mentions is that the job is stored in a queue somewhere until DBMS_JOB pushes the queue? Which USER_JOBS table am I suppose to see the job in? What is the job suppose to look like? How do I know the email has been sent? How do I check that the mail is posted correctly each time? Where do error messages go if the email is not sent? Where is there doco on changing the SMTP_HOST_ADDRESS and PORT settings?
help
Paul Platt

Answer 1

You can call
HTMLDB_MAIL.PUSH_QUEUE('smtpservername,port);
after sending your mail.Is there an easy way to call HTMLDB_MAIL.PUSH_QUEUE and get it to use the SMTP parameters defined for the HTMLDB installation, rather than having to specify them again in the code.
The DBMS_JOB entry used to push the mail uses:
wwv_flow_platform.get_preference('SMTP_HOST_ADDRESS')
but this is not a public package.
Thanks
Roger