Re: Read UNIX e-mail from Oracle with PL/SQL?

A small shell script running in cron to check the mail and load it into an Oracle table. If you don't want an external program like Shell Script, may be you can use a Java stored procedure to do the same and schedule it using DBMS_JOB. bhogak

Dave <fornalskyd_at_mediaone.net> wrote in message news:3aa0204c$0$63743$45beb828_at_newscene.com...
> Hi all,
>
> A big-wig at the client I'm at needs to check his e-mail
> while he's off site using a wireless device, most likely
> a Palm OS handheld. We've discussed a number of ways but
> for various reasons they've all been shot down.
>
> The latest and greatest idea has been to build a simple
> web interface to the e-mail account. This solves a number
> of technical hurdles (and many other security and
> political hurdles) and using PL/SQL would be easy to
> create. Think something like Yahoo mail.
>
> Sending e-mail would be no trouble, but how can I access
> this user's UNIX e-mail account (Sun/Solaris) from Oracle
> with PL/SQL so that I can read his messages and present
> them in the Web interface? Any ideas? Can this be done
> and is there any sample code out there I can be pointed
> to? Using Oracle8i 8.1.6 and Oracle Web Server 2.1.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> - Dave
>
>
Received on Fri Mar 02 2001 - 19:24:15 CST