Send mail from PL/SQL

Sample scripts for sending E-mail messages from PL/SQL:

Starting from Oracle 8i release 8.1.6, one can send E-mail messages directly from PL/SQL using either the UTL_TCP or UTL_SMTP packages. However, Oracle introduced an improved package for sending E-mail in Oracle 10g - called UTL_MAIL - that should be used instead of UTL_SMTP.

All examples below require a working SMTP mail server. Customize these scripts to point the IP Address of your SMTP server. The SMTP port is usually 25. Configuring an SMTP server is not an Oracle function and thus out of scope for this site.

Send mail with UTL_MAIL

For security reasons, UTL_MAIL is not enabled by default. You must install it by connecting to SYS, then executing the utlmail.sql and prvtmail.plb scripts in the $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin directory. In addition, you must configure an initialization parameter, SMTP_OUT_SERVER, to point to an outgoing SMTP server (unlike UTL_SMTP, this is not specified in the function arguments and must be pre-defined).

IMPORTANT: The scripts do not seem to grant the needed EXECUTE permission to PUBLIC. Thus, after running the scripts, while still logged in as SYS you should run the following line:

grant execute on UTL_MAIL to public;

Example:

BEGIN
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'ALTER SESSION SET smtp_out_server = ''127.0.0.1''';
  UTL_MAIL.send(sender => 'me@address.com',
            recipients => 'you@address.com',
               subject => 'Test Mail',
               message => 'Hello World',
             mime_type => 'text; charset=us-ascii');
END;
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Send mail with UTL_SMTP

Send mail without attachments using the UTL_SMTP package:

DECLARE
  v_From      VARCHAR2(80) := 'oracle@mycompany.com';
  v_Recipient VARCHAR2(80) := 'test@mycompany.com;test2@mycompany.com';
  v_Subject   VARCHAR2(80) := 'test subject';
  v_Mail_Host VARCHAR2(30) := 'mail.mycompany.com';
  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 ||
   'some message text'|| crlf ||	-- Message body
   'more message text'|| 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', TRUE);
END;
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Send mail with UTL_SMTP - with attachments

Send mail with attachments using the UTL_SMTP package:

DECLARE
   v_From       VARCHAR2(80) := 'oracle@mycompany.com';
   v_Recipient  VARCHAR2(80) := 'test@mycompany.com';
   v_Subject    VARCHAR2(80) := 'test subject';
   v_Mail_Host  VARCHAR2(30) := 'mail.mycompany.com';
   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 ||

    'MIME-Version: 1.0'|| crlf ||	-- Use MIME mail standard
    'Content-Type: multipart/mixed;'|| crlf ||
    ' boundary="-----SECBOUND"'|| crlf ||
    crlf ||

    '-------SECBOUND'|| crlf ||
    'Content-Type: text/plain;'|| crlf ||
    'Content-Transfer_Encoding: 7bit'|| crlf ||
    crlf ||
    'some message text'|| crlf ||	-- Message body
    'more message text'|| crlf ||
    crlf ||

    '-------SECBOUND'|| crlf ||
    'Content-Type: text/plain;'|| crlf ||
    ' name="excel.csv"'|| crlf ||
    'Content-Transfer_Encoding: 8bit'|| crlf ||
    'Content-Disposition: attachment;'|| crlf ||
    ' filename="excel.csv"'|| crlf ||
    crlf ||
    'CSV,file,attachement'|| crlf ||	-- Content of attachment
    crlf ||

    '-------SECBOUND--'			-- End MIME mail
  );

  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', TRUE);
END;
/

Send mail with UTL_TCP

Send mail using the UTL_TCP package:

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE SEND_MAIL (
  msg_from    varchar2 := 'oracle',
  msg_to      varchar2,
  msg_subject varchar2 := 'E-Mail message from your database',
  msg_text    varchar2 :=  )
IS
  c  utl_tcp.connection;
  rc integer;
BEGIN
  c := utl_tcp.open_connection('127.0.0.1', 25);       -- open the SMTP port 25 on local machine
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'HELO localhost');
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'MAIL FROM: '||msg_from);
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'RCPT TO: '||msg_to);
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'DATA');                 -- Start message body
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'Subject: '||msg_subject);
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, );
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, msg_text);
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, '.');                    -- End of message body
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'QUIT');
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  utl_tcp.close_connection(c);                         -- Close the connection
END;
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show errors

-- Test it:
set serveroutput on

exec send_mail(msg_to  =>'you@yourdomain.com');

exec send_mail(msg_to  =>'you@yourdomain.com',  -
	       msg_text=>'Look Ma, I can send mail from plsql' -
              );

Send mail with UTL_TCP - with attachments

Send e-mail messages with attachments from PL/SQL using UTL_TCP:

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE SEND_MAIL (
  msg_from    varchar2 := 'EMAILADDRESS@DOMAIN.COM',    ----- MAIL BOX SENDING THE EMAIL
  msg_to      varchar2 := 'EMAILADDRESS@DOMAIN.COM',    ----- MAIL BOX RECIEVING THE EMAIL
  msg_subject varchar2 := 'Output file TEST1',          ----- EMAIL SUBJECT
  msg_text    varchar2 := 'THIS IS THE TEXT OF THE EMAIL MESSAGE.',
  v_output1   varchar2 := 'THIS IS THE TEXT OF THE ATTACHMENT FILE. THIS TEXT WILL BE IN A TEXT FILE ATTACHED TO THE EMAIL.')
IS
  c  utl_tcp.connection;
  rc integer;
  crlf VARCHAR2(2):= CHR(13)||CHR(10);
  mesg VARCHAR2(32767);
BEGIN
  c := utl_tcp.open_connection('196.35.140.18', 25);       ----- OPEN SMTP PORT CONNECTION
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'HELO 196.35.140.18');       ----- PERFORMS HANDSHAKING WITH SMTP SERVER
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'EHLO 196.35.140.18');       ----- PERFORMS HANDSHAKING, INCLUDING EXTRA INFORMATION
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'MAIL FROM: '||msg_from);    ----- MAIL BOX SENDING THE EMAIL
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'RCPT TO: '||msg_to);        ----- MAIL BOX RECIEVING THE EMAIL
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'DATA');                     ----- EMAIL MESSAGE BODY START
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'Date: '||TO_CHAR( SYSDATE, 'dd Mon yy hh24:mi:ss' ));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'From: '||msg_from||' <'||msg_from||'>');
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'MIME-Version: 1.0');
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'To: '||msg_to||' <'||msg_to||'>');
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'Subject: '||msg_subject);
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed;');  ----- INDICATES THAT THE BODY CONSISTS OF MORE THAN ONE PART
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, ' boundary="-----SECBOUND"');       ----- SEPERATOR USED TO SEPERATE THE BODY PARTS
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, );                                ----- DO NOT REMOVE THIS BLANK LINE - PART OF MIME STANDARD
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, '-------SECBOUND');
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'Content-Type: text/plain');        ----- 1ST BODY PART. EMAIL TEXT MESSAGE
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit');
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, );
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, msg_text);                          ----- TEXT OF EMAIL MESSAGE
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, );
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, '-------SECBOUND');
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'Content-Type: text/plain;');       ----- 2ND BODY PART.
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, ' name="Test.txt"');
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'Content-Transfer_Encoding: 8bit');
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'Content-Disposition: attachment;'); ----- INDICATES THAT THIS IS AN ATTACHMENT
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, ' filename="Test.txt"');             ----- SUGGESTED FILE NAME FOR ATTACHMENT
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, );
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, v_output1);
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, '-------SECBOUND--');
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, );
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, '.');                    ----- EMAIL MESSAGE BODY END
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  rc := utl_tcp.write_line(c, 'QUIT');                 ----- ENDS EMAIL TRANSACTION
  dbms_output.put_line(utl_tcp.get_line(c, TRUE));
  utl_tcp.close_connection(c);                         ----- CLOSE SMTP PORT CONNECTION
END;
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