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Sending mail with attachment using UTL_SMTP

edy12Oct 6 2015 — edited Dec 15 2015

Hi All,

I am working on a PL/SQL code where I have to send mail with an attachment using UTL_SMTP. I am using the following code, I changed the value of p_to and p_from

DECLARE

  l_mail_conn   UTL_SMTP.connection;

  l_boundary    VARCHAR2(50) := '----=*#abc1234321cba#*=';

  l_step        PLS_INTEGER  := 12000; -- make sure you set a multiple of 3 not higher than 24573

  p_to          VARCHAR2(100) := 'abc@gmail.com';

  p_from        VARCHAR2(100) := 'abc@gmail.com';

  p_subject     VARCHAR2(100):= 'FILE UPLOAD MAIL';

  p_text_msg    VARCHAR2(100):= 'This is an system generated Email';

  p_attach_name VARCHAR2(100);

  p_attach_mime VARCHAR2(100);

  p_attach_blob BLOB;

  p_smtp_host   VARCHAR2(100) := 'localhost';

  p_smtp_port   NUMBER := 25;

BEGIN

  l_mail_conn := UTL_SMTP.open_connection(p_smtp_host, p_smtp_port);

  UTL_SMTP.helo(l_mail_conn, p_smtp_host);

  UTL_SMTP.mail(l_mail_conn, p_from);

  UTL_SMTP.rcpt(l_mail_conn, p_to);

  UTL_SMTP.open_data(l_mail_conn);

 

  UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Date: ' || TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') || UTL_TCP.crlf);

  UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'To: ' || p_to || UTL_TCP.crlf);

  UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'From: ' || p_from || UTL_TCP.crlf);

  UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Subject: ' || p_subject || UTL_TCP.crlf);

  UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Reply-To: ' || p_from || UTL_TCP.crlf);

  UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'MIME-Version: 1.0' || UTL_TCP.crlf);

  UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="' || l_boundary || '"' || UTL_TCP.crlf || UTL_TCP.crlf);

 

  IF p_text_msg IS NOT NULL THEN

    UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, '--' || l_boundary || UTL_TCP.crlf);

    UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"' || UTL_TCP.crlf || UTL_TCP.crlf);

    UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, p_text_msg);

    UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, UTL_TCP.crlf || UTL_TCP.crlf);

  END IF;

  IF p_attach_name IS NOT NULL THEN

 

     FOR I IN (SELECT *

                 FROM xx_mail_test_table

                WHERE ROWNUM = 1

                ORDER BY last_update_date DESC) LOOP

            

        UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, '--' || l_boundary || UTL_TCP.crlf);

        UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Content-Type: ' || p_attach_mime || '; name="' || I.FILE_NAME || '"' || UTL_TCP.crlf);

        UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64' || UTL_TCP.crlf);

        UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' || I.FILE_NAME || '"' || UTL_TCP.crlf || UTL_TCP.crlf);

       

        FOR J IN 0 .. TRUNC((DBMS_LOB.getlength(I.FILE_NAME) - 1 )/l_step) LOOP

          UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, UTL_RAW.cast_to_varchar2(UTL_ENCODE.base64_encode(DBMS_LOB.substr(I.FILE_NAME, l_step, J * l_step + 1))));

        END LOOP;

        UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, UTL_TCP.crlf || UTL_TCP.crlf);

       

     END LOOP;  

  END IF;

     

  UTL_SMTP.write_data(l_mail_conn, '--' || l_boundary || '--' || UTL_TCP.crlf);

  UTL_SMTP.close_data(l_mail_conn);

  UTL_SMTP.quit(l_mail_conn);

 

EXCEPTION

  WHEN utl_smtp.transient_error OR utl_smtp.permanent_error THEN

    utl_smtp.quit(l_mail_conn);

    raise;

  WHEN OTHERS THEN

    dbms_output.put_line(SQLERRM); 

 

END;

Issue is when I am executing the block I am getting 2 mails at the same but there are no attachments, I checked the table and it has data.

Could someone help me as to where I am going wrong?

This post has been answered by Mike Kutz on Oct 6 2015
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