"DA Morgan" <damorgan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schreef in bericht
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> shakespeare wrote:
>> "shakespeare" <whatsin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schreef in bericht
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>>> "Lee" <Lee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schreef in bericht
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>>>> DA Morgan wrote:
>>>>> Lee wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've sent email from pl/sql with utl_smtp and with 10g's utl_mail;
>>>>>> but now I want to do the inverse, i.e. I want to READ email from
>>>>>> pl/sql.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The idea is to set up a dedicated email account. Users could send
>>>>>> stereotyped messages to that account, and the pl/sql routine would
>>>>>> read the mail, parse the messages and do the needful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As far as I can tell, utl_mail will send, but not receive email.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can think of some Rube Golberg workarounds but can anyone point
the
>>>>>> way to a "no fuss" way to read simple text emails?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>>
>>>>> If you think it is a good idea to send emails, across the web, from
>>>>> some Microsoft Outlook client directly into an Oracle database I am
>>>>> sure
>>>>> we can recommend a good 12 step program for you.
>>>>>
>>>> As you yourself point out, the email winds up as data somwhere; so
why
>>>> would it be worse to send email to an automated agent than sending
>>>> email to a human agent or just reading an input file as data?
>>>>
>>>> Why would reading email to drive a script from inside a stored
>>>> procedure be more dangerous than running a static batch script or a
>>>> script that takes input from a human or from a data file?
>>>>
>>>> I assume you're concerned about sql injection attacks or maybe some
>>>> sort of spam and/or spoofing, or even an attempt to "flood" the
system
>>>> a la DDOS attacks?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I'm not being sufficiently imaginative or paranoid, but I cant
>>>> see how the sort of scheme I'm thinking of is more dangerous than
>>>> crossing the street. Everybody and his uncle has a listserv that runs
>>>> on commands sent in by email, so why is that setting off alarm bells?
>>>>
>>>> I can use an http callout to get data from anywhere on the planet.
>>>> There are "rest"-full web services, and SOAP interfaces and all sorts
>>>> of ways to have all kinds of heaven-knows-what get presented as
input.
>>>> A routine that parses stereotyped email messages and deliveres canned
>>>> re****ts in response seems pretty benign.
>>>>
>>>> Or am I living in a fools paradise?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Incoming emails are stored somewhere. Find the location. Read them
>>>>> using
>>>>> anything from UTL_FILE to whatever.
>>>> My Oracle server is running on a different box from my email server,
so
>>>> the trick is to get the data from the mail server to the oracle box.
>>>>
>>>> If I dont mind having more moving parts, there are plenty of ways to
>>>> get from there to here; but I was hoping for something with "no fuss,
>>>> no muss and no bother". Reading email seemed to fill the bill until
>>>> I realize that I dont seem to have a slick way to make that happen.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe something in Java running in the database?
>>>>
>>>> Of course there is that proverb about the relative velocity of fools
>>>> and fearful angels, so tell me more about why I could be stepping off
a
>>>> cliff here.
>>>>
>>> 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?).
>>>
>>> Shakespeare
>>>
>>
>> Checked it out: there still an SMTP adapter in Oracle Application
Server
>> Integration InterConnect. But it can only handle IMAP4, no POP3.
>> I think that was our problem back then......
>>
>> Shakespeare
>
> Get a Collab Suite license. That's another solution.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Wa****ngton
> damorgan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
> www.psoug.org
Yes, like I already pointed out... Quite a lot of overhead for just
receiving mail, but what the ... ,right?
Shakespeare
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