Re: email from report server

"Scott Mattes" <ScottMattes_at_yahoo.com> writes:

> Right you are. And I wish that I had access to the report server. I know it
> is Unix, but not what flavor or release.
>
> And the customer said 'no utl_smtp', as in, we can't use it.
>
Why not?

The utl_smtp package makes use of the utl_tcp package to connect to the mail server. Whatever solution you use, you will need access to a mail server somewhere (either on the local box or a remote host). To do this, you would need at least some way to make a tcp connection to the mail server, or you might be able to call an external procedure/shell script which in turn calls some mail user agent like mutt, elm, mailx etc, but this is a pretty fragile solution I would avoid.

[Quoted] I'd find out why they won't allow you to use utl_smtp (maybe they don't want to enable java support - I think utl_tcp uses java). If it is some misconception about security and smtp, then you need to ask them how they expect to send e-mail without access to some form of smtp communication at some level.

Tim Received on Wed Aug 28 2002 - 02:22:32 CEST