yf110_at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Malcolm Dew-Jones) wrote in
news:44208aca$1_at_news.victoria.tc.ca:
> Francesco (fraberardinelli_at_tiscali.it) wrote:
>: I would like to create a mail client for Oracle Forms. To send an
>: email I use UTL_SMTP, and it works fine, instead to receive an email,
>: I'm not able to find any Oracle package.. Do you know if exists some
>: kind of package that permits me to receive an email using telnet
>: commands, or something like that.
>
> SMTP is not normally involved to receive messages by a client, even if
> the client uses SMTP to send messages.
>
> Instead, the messages are received by a regular mail server (sendmail
> etc), and then the host also runs POP or IMAP server, and then the
> client uses POP or IMAP client to get the messages from that.
>
> No Idea if oracle has libraries for POP or IMAP, though I guess that
> Java probably does.
>
> As a simple kludge though, if you have access to the mailbox files
> saved by the mail server that receives the messages, then simply read
> the mailbox files directly - they are just text files in a normal
> unix-ish setup. Open the file, split around the message delimiter
> line
> (^From\ mailid), and display the text. Not pretty perhaps, but fine
> for
> viewing text messages.
>
> You could even modify the files if you wish. As long as the text
> format is correct and you coordinate the locking of the files, then
> there's nothing special about them at all.
>
>
>
Besides you've neglected to mention which version of Forms
(whether client/server or webforms).
Oracle C/S Forms is no longer supported.
Web Forms require an App. Server which is typically NOT the mail server.
Received on Tue Mar 21 2006 - 20:49:17 CST