many is the time when spammers have used Open Relay SMTP servers to send their junk mail so i would advise against using sendmail on Open Relay SMTP servers I would narrow access by SSH or open a secure tunnel thru your firewall to your own internal DatabaseManagementSystem/J2EEServer/ApacheHTTPServer then allow those scripts (PL-SQL or Perl or Java) to invoke sendmail to the SMTPMailServer inside the firewall
If you are sponsoring your own email-server and I hope you are DISALLOW OPEN RELAY Martin Gainty ______________________________________________ Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité Diese Nachricht ist vertraulich. Sollten Sie nicht der vorgesehene Empfaenger sein, so bitten wir hoeflich um eine Mitteilung. Jede unbefugte Weiterleitung oder Fertigung einer Kopie ist unzulaessig. Diese Nachricht dient lediglich dem Austausch von Informationen und entfaltet keine rechtliche Bindungswirkung. Aufgrund der leichten Manipulierbarkeit von E-Mails koennen wir keine Haftung fuer den Inhalt uebernehmen. Ce message est confidentiel et peut être privilégié. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire prévu, nous te demandons avec bonté que pour satisfaire informez l'expéditeur. N'importe quelle diffusion non autorisée ou la copie de ceci est interdite. Ce message sert à l'information seulement et n'aura pas n'importe quel effet légalement obligatoire. Étant donné que les email peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne pouvons accepter aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. To: dep...@depesz.com CC: pavithra....@gmail.com; pgsql-general@postgresql.org; pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Need psql send email From: martin.fre...@romaxtech.com Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:40:58 +0100 > > Hi All,I am new to postgresql. I want to send email by using pl > pgsql. I want > > to know how to set up the configurations for mail server.Can any one help me > > in solving this?. pavithra....@gmail.com > > http://www.depesz.com/2012/06/13/how-to-send-mail-from-database/ > > Best regards, > > depesz Alternatively: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sendmail(p_from text, p_to text, p_subject text, p_content text) RETURNS void AS $BODY$ use strict; use warnings; my ($from, $to, $subject, $content) = @_; open(MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t") or die 'Cannot send mail'; print MAIL "From: $from\n"; print MAIL "To: $to\n"; print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n"; print MAIL "$content"; close(MAIL); $BODY$ LANGUAGE plperlu; Works ok provided sendmail is configured. or: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION send_smtp(p_mail_host text, p_from text, p_to text, p_subject text, p_content text, p_timeout integer DEFAULT 60, p_debug integer DEFAULT 0, p_exactaddr integer DEFAULT 1, p_skipbad integer DEFAULT 1) RETURNS void AS $BODY$ use strict; use warnings; use Net::SMTP; no strict 'refs'; my ($host, $sender, $recipient, $subject, $body, $timeout, $debug, $exact, $skipbad) = @_; (!defined($host) || !($host)) && die 'No SMTP host provided.'; (!defined($sender) || !($sender)) && die 'No sender address/name provided.'; (!defined($recipient) || !($recipient)) && die 'No recipient address specified.'; my $mail = Net::SMTP->new( Host => $host, Debug => $debug, Timeout => $timeout, ExactAddresses => $exact ) or die 'Net::SMTP->new() Failed'; $mail->mail($sender); $mail->recipient($recipient, { SkipBad => $skipbad }); $mail->data(); $mail->datasend("MIME-Version: 1.0\n"); $mail->datasend("From:" . $sender . "\n"); $mail->datasend("To:" . $recipient . "\n"); $mail->datasend("Reply-To: ". $sender . "\n"); $mail->datasend("Subject:" . $subject . "\n\n"); $mail->dataend(); $mail->quit(); $BODY$ LANGUAGE plperlu; Feel free to hack away as much as required. Both of these work fine provided PL/PerlU is installed and the server is properly configured on the network, and that there is a valid SMTP mail host to receive. Cheers Martin ============================================= Romax Technology Limited Rutherford House Nottingham Science & Technology Park Nottingham, NG7 2PZ England Telephone numbers: +44 (0)115 951 88 00 (main) For other office locations see: http://www.romaxtech.com/Contact ================================= =============== E-mail: i...@romaxtech.com Website: www.romaxtech.com ================================= ================ Confidentiality Statement This transmission is for the addressee only and contains information that is confidential and privileged. Unless you are the named addressee, or authorised to receive it on behalf of the addressee you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please delete from your system and contact the sender. Thank you for your cooperation. =================================================
