Sending Formatted Email from oracle.

Question

i have created following procedure to send email on specific event from database. I want to send it in specific Format by adding html tags like following. Its not working.
crlf ||
  <h1>|| 'employee number'|| p_emp_no ||</h1><BR>||'. Please login  Manager Self Service  to approve or Reject request'||  crlf || <BR>||   -- Message body
   '.                                Comments: '||p_comm|| crlf
);Complete procedure.
create or replace procedure SCC_EMIL (p_mail_to in char,p_emp_no in number,p_comm in char)
is
  v_From      VARCHAR2(80) := '[email protected]';
  v_Recipient VARCHAR2(80) := p_mail_to;
  v_Subject   VARCHAR2(200) := 'Promotion System : Apprvla Request for :'||p_emp_no ;
  v_Mail_Host VARCHAR2(30) := 'mail.aite.com.sa';
  v_Mail_Conn utl_smtp.Connection;
  crlf        VARCHAR2(2)  := chr(13)||chr(10);
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.Data(v_Mail_Conn,
   'Date: '   || to_char(sysdate, 'Dy, DD Mon YYYY hh24:mi:ss') || crlf ||
   'From: '   || v_From || crlf ||
   'Subject: '|| v_Subject || crlf ||
   'To: '     || v_Recipient || crlf ||
   crlf ||
   'employee number'|| p_emp_no ||'. Please login  Manager Self Service  to approve or Reject request'||  crlf ||    -- Message body
   '.                                Comments: '||p_comm|| 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;Edited by: BluShadow on 29-Nov-2011 08:57
added {noformat}{noformat} tags. Please read {message:id=9360002} and learn to do this yourself in future.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Answer 1

XAVER wrote:
Output is simple text. not formatted by using HTML tags. i.e. <H1> </H1>That is because the e-mail does not have a valid header and a Mime type that says it is html text and not plain text.
It is your responsibility to format a valid Mime body as the e-mail. The SMTP protocol is merely the delivery vehicle. It delivers the cargo, whatever it is. Your code needs to package that cargo correctly.
Have a look at Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions specifications that governs the formatting of e-mail.
Or use a more abstract API like UTL_MAIL that enables you to submit HTML as e-mail and simply mark that using the relevant Mime type (e.g. html/text) - it will format that as a proper Mime body and use SMTP to deliver it.