Re: utl_smtp -> meeting request

On Mar 30, 9:51 am, "Vladimir M. Zakharychev"
<vladimir.zakharyc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 29, 8:20 am, "GK" <a...@xxx> wrote:

Hello,

Is there a way to send out E-mail meeing requests (Outlook) using utl_smtp ?
If yes, how ?
Oracle version: 9i

thanks,
GK

Yes, it's possible if you know the format of meeting requests sent by
Outlook. Outlook meeting request is actually just a plain text message
of MIME type "text/calendar", XML-like in that it's hierarchical, but
not XML as it uses different tagging scheme: BEGIN: name ... END: name
on separate lines. Surely there should be no problems emailing plain
text messages using documented UTL_SMTP API.

Now if the question actually is "what is the format of MS Outlook
calendar events?" then I have no ready answer but "browse MSDN Library
athttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library, it may well be documented
there." Otherwise you can send yourself a few different requests,
check their raw content and figure out the format.


To save you time on research: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc/2445.txt -
Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
(iCalendar). This is what Outlook uses.

Regards,
Vladimir M. Zakharychev
N-Networks, makers of Dynamic PSP(tm)
http://www.dynamicpsp.com

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