Updating records via email
Is it possible at all to update records via email. If yes, what is the theory behind it.
what I do is trigger an html email with a form embedded - that form posts out to a cgi script which inserts/updates the database.
it's ugly but it works
There is utl_smtp package for sending mail.
There is also utl_tcp package; on top of it you can write your own utl_pop3 package or something like that for receiving.
And post it here, so we can all use it
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Thanks for all the help
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