Re: Receiving email into pl/sql

shakespeare wrote:

> 
> Back in the nineties, Oracle used to have a product called Oracle Mail, 
> which was able to receive email (and yes: in the database). It became
part 
> of Oracle Interoffice (which died some years later).  Don't know if it's

> still around as a product, but it is stil there as a part of Oracle 
> Collaboration Suite (able to receive mail in the database). I had a
customer 
> who installed Coll. Suite for this purpose solely: they wanted to be
able to 
> start processes based on email.
> Installing OCS is quite a fuss, keeping it running even more, but it may
be 
> worth a try. You'll have to pay for it, though.
> Oracle Interconnect had an SMTP adapter (but that was in 2001). We never
got 
> it working, iirc it could not handle attachments.Could be part of BPEL
now 
> (does someone know?).
> 

  Thanks for the input.

  Its beginning to look as if I'm not going to be able to do any better 
than my friend Rube (Golberg) after all.