Sending formatted email

Question

Hi,
I am using oracle 10.2.0.4 database
Is there any one who can guide me that how to send a formatted email from oracle using UTL_SMTP package. For example, if i query dba_data_files view as follows
select file_name,bytes,autoextensible from dba_data_files;
Query returnts me a number of rows and i want to send this result through email same in the table format in which the query returns the result.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Salman Qureshi wrote:
Is there any one who can guide me that how to send a formatted email from oracle using UTL_SMTP package. For example, if i query dba_data_files view as follows
select file_name,bytes,autoextensible from dba_data_files;You need to format a HTML mail - and format the contents of that query as a HTML table.
Do you know HTML? If not, use a search engine and research how to construct a HTML table with rows and columns.
In PL/SQL, you can use UTL_MAIL to send the mail. The body of the mail (e.g. varchar2(32767) variable) will contain the HTML table. The MIME type of the mail needs to be "+text/html+" in order to inform the mail reader to render the body of that e-mail using a HTML rendering engine.
The PL/SQL code will look something as follows:
  <creating the HTML table in a varchar2 variable called mailBody>
  -- now send that as a HTML e-mail
  UTL_MAIL.Send(
    sender => '[email protected]',
    recipients => '[email protected]',
    subject => 'SQL Table Results',
    message => mailBody,
    mime_type => 'text/html'
...