Sending Email from an Application

You can send an email from an Application Builder application by calling the PL/SQL package APEX_MAIL. This package is built on top of the Oracle supplied UTL_SMTP package. Because of this dependence, in order to use APEX_MAIL, the UTL_SMTP package must be installed and functioning.

See Also:

Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference for more information about the UTL_SMTP package and "APEX_MAIL"

APEX_MAIL contains two procedures for manually sending email:

Use the APEX_MAIL.SEND procedure to manually send an outbound email message from your application
Use APEX_MAIL.PUSH_QUEUE to deliver mail messages stored in APEX_MAIL_QUEUE

Oracle Application Express stores unsent email messages in a table named APEX_MAIL_QUEUE. You can deliver mail messages stored in this queue to the specified SMTP gateway by calling the procedure APEX_MAIL.PUSH_QUEUE.

Oracle Application Express logs successfully submitted messages in the table APEX_MAIL_LOG with the timestamp reflecting your server's local time.

The following UNIX/LINUX example demonstrates the use of the APEX_MAIL.PUSH_QUEUE procedure using a shell script.

SQLPLUS / <<EOF
APEX_MAIL.PUSH_QUEUE;
DISCONNECT
EXIT
EOF