Utl_mail.send_attach_varchar2 issue

If I try to execute package below on 10.2.0.2 (on Solaris 10), then the attachment I receive in the email has two rows where first row is empty and the second row has a text 200708, aaaa, xxxx
Any idea why? The attachment should have only one single row with text 200708, aaaa, xxxx why there are two rows and the first is empty?
BEGIN
utl_mail.send_attach_varchar2( sender => '[email protected]',
recipients =>'[email protected]',
subject => 'TEST',
message => 'This is a test',
attachment => '200708, aaaa, xxxx',
att_filename => 'test.txt');
END;

Interesting, I get the same results running your code. The attached file has a leading blank line. Double checking the mail file in a hex editor shows that there is indeed an extra CRLF preceding the text that should be the body of your message. This is probably a bug in the implementation of the UTL_MAIL package that you could request help with from customer support. If you don't want to go through customer support, your other option would be to fore go using UTL_MAIL and instead go straight to UTL_SMTP, or grab a copy of the DEMO_MAIL package from OTN.

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Edited by: mlov83 on Sep 18, 2012 7:01 AM

mlov83 wrote:
I guess you have never been confused or frustuated. :-). That is why drinking copious amounts of coffee is important.
A simple example of code goes a long way.
SEND_ATTACH_VARCHAR2() call is explained in the documentation. Numerous source code examples can be easily found. Thus my criticism.
The basic concept is - the attachment parameter contains the contents (e.g. file content, text content, image contents) and the filename parameter names that contents.
Keep in mind that the document clearly states that the attachment data types are varchar2 and raw - both which are limited to 32KB. This means that larger attachment sizes will fail and that you need to use UTL_SMTP instead. Which is also documented in the same reference guide. And for which there are also a lot of examples.

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