Sending email from oracle apex UTL_SMTP with smtp server credentials - oracle

Question

Is there a way to send email using UTL_SMTP method by providing smtp server credentials which is not localhost.
i.e. SMTP service is running somewhere else but is not https secures, i want to use utl_smtp package but i dont see any function parameter that take smtp server id or password in it

Answer 1

If you want to use UTL_SMTP, you provide the SMTP host when you call utl_smtp.open_connection.
Example code (taken from Oracle docs);
DECLARE
c UTL_SMTP.CONNECTION;
PROCEDURE send_header(name IN VARCHAR2, header IN VARCHAR2) AS
BEGIN
UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(c, name || ': ' || header || UTL_TCP.CRLF);
END;
BEGIN
c := UTL_SMTP.OPEN_CONNECTION('smtp-server.acme.com');
UTL_SMTP.HELO(c, 'foo.com');
UTL_SMTP.MAIL(c, 'sender#foo.com');
UTL_SMTP.RCPT(c, 'recipient#foo.com');
UTL_SMTP.OPEN_DATA(c);
send_header('From', '"Sender" <sender#foo.com>');
send_header('To', '"Recipient" <recipient#foo.com>');
send_header('Subject', 'Hello');
UTL_SMTP.WRITE_DATA(c, UTL_TCP.CRLF || 'Hello, world!');
UTL_SMTP.CLOSE_DATA(c);
UTL_SMTP.QUIT(c);
EXCEPTION
WHEN utl_smtp.transient_error OR utl_smtp.permanent_error THEN
BEGIN
UTL_SMTP.QUIT(c);
EXCEPTION
WHEN UTL_SMTP.TRANSIENT_ERROR OR UTL_SMTP.PERMANENT_ERROR THEN
NULL; -- When the SMTP server is down or unavailable, we don't have
-- a connection to the server. The QUIT call raises an
-- exception that we can ignore.
END;
raise_application_error(-20000,
'Failed to send mail due to the following error: ' || sqlerrm);
END;
If your smtp server accepts PLAIN, LOGIN or CRAM-MD5 authentication, you need to call utl_smtp.auth as well, e.g.:
DECLARE
c utl_smtp.connection;
BEGIN
c := utl_smtp.open_connection(
host => 'smtp.example.com',
port => 25,
wallet_path => 'file:/oracle/wallets/smtp_wallet',
wallet_password => 'password',
secure_connection_before_smtp => FALSE);
UTL_SMTP.STARTTLS(c);
UTL_SMTP.AUTH(
c => c,
username => 'scott',
password => 'password'
schemes => utl_smtp.all_schemes);
END;
That said, if you're using APEX you may want to consider using APEX_MAIL instead. You configure the host in the APEX instance settings.
Documentation:
UTL_SMTP: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e40758/u_smtp.htm#ARPLS074
APEX_MAIL: https://docs.oracle.com/database/apex-5.1/AEAPI/APEX_MAIL.htm