Read Email from Oracle

Oracle Application Server has Email Server component. The front-end is web based. The Email server is installed in Oracle database. Oracle Collaboration Suite also has Email Server as its component.

Oracle eMail Server Documentation
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/emailserver.html


Oracle built-in package dbms_smtp can be used to programatically send/receive emails.

Sending E-mails from Oracle Database
http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora9i/oracleemail.shtml

Sending email from the database with the Utl_Smtp package
http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/pl_sql/htdocs/Utl_Smtp_Sample.html

Thank you for the answer but What I need is how to read emails from oracle without the use of an email server.

>> how to read emails from oracle
To read EMail sent by using standard protocols you require an EMail browser like outlook. Oracle does not store the EMails that are sent.

The only way to be able to read email from oracle would be by creating an email server then?

You can also use Oracle Built-in Packages like dbms_smtp. But you should write code using PL/SQL.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/pl_sql/htdocs/Utl_Smtp_Sample.html
http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora9i/oracleemail.shtml

From the links ive read dbms_smtp are for sending emails.

Any other way of reading emails from oracle without email server?

I don't think it's possible to do that.

I still need a solution for this problem.
Can MohanKNair give me references for using dbms_smtp.
Regards,
Brian.

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