PUSH_QUEUE Procedure

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

Oracle Application Express logs successfully submitted message in the table APEX_MAIL_LOG with the timestamp reflecting your server's local time. Keep in mind, the most efficient approach to sending email is to create a background job (using a DBMS_JOB package) to periodically send all mail messages stored in the active mail queue.

Syntax

APEX_MAIL.PUSH_QUEUE(
    p_smtp_hostname             IN    VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL,
    p_smtp_portno               IN    NUMBER   DEFAULT NULL);

Parameters

Table: PUSH_QUEUE Parameters describes the parameters available in the PUSH_QUEUE procedure.

Note that these parameter values are provided for backward compatibility, but their respective values are ignored. The SMTP gateway hostname and SMTP gateway port number are exclusively derived from values entered on the Manage Environment Settings when sending email.

Example

The following example demonstrates the use of the APEX_MAIL.PUSH_QUEUE procedure using a shell script. This example only applies to UNIX/LINUX installations.

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