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error sending mail in the database

599921Mar 26 2008 — edited Mar 26 2008
Hi ,
I wrote one procedure to send a mail from the database.But I am getting error.Please observe the code and let me give the solution for this.Here I found am not giving service name.But I don't knoe the service name. Then how to send the mail..
SQL>  DECLARE
  2     c UTL_SMTP.CONNECTION;
  3    
  4     PROCEDURE send_header(name IN VARCHAR2, header IN VARCHAR2) AS
  5     BEGIN
  6       UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(c, name || ': ' || header || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
  7     END;
  8    
  9   BEGIN
 10     c := UTL_SMTP.OPEN_CONNECTION('smtp-server.acme.com');
 11     UTL_SMTP.HELO(c,'gmail.com');
 12  UTL_SMTP.MAIL(c, 'abc@gmail.com');
 13  UTL_SMTP.RCPT(c, 'def@gmail.com');
 14  send_header('From',    '"Sender" <abc@gmail.com>');
 15   send_header('To',      '"Recipient" <def@accenture.com>');
 16      UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(c, UTL_TCP.CRLF || 'Hello, world!');
 17      UTL_SMTP.CLOSE_DATA(c);
 18      UTL_SMTP.QUIT(c);
 19    EXCEPTION
 20      WHEN utl_smtp.transient_error OR utl_smtp.permanent_error THEN
 21        BEGIN
 22          UTL_SMTP.QUIT(c);
 23        EXCEPTION
 24          WHEN UTL_SMTP.TRANSIENT_ERROR OR UTL_SMTP.PERMANENT_ERROR THEN
 25            NULL; -- When the SMTP server is down or unavailable, we don't have
 26                  -- a connection to the server. The QUIT call will raise an
 27                  -- exception that we can ignore.
 28        END;
 29        raise_application_error(-20000,
 30          'Failed to send mail due to the following error: ' || sqlerrm);
 31    END;
 32  /
 DECLARE
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20000: Failed to send mail due to the following error: ORA-29278: SMTP transient error: 421
Service not available
ORA-29278: SMTP transient error: 421 Service not available
ORA-06512: at line 29
Thank you

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