I am having problem sending our emails from oracle stored procedure (using utl_smtp package). For a large email messages, message body is getting truncated to 1000 characters. I am on 10gR2. Here is my procedure: PROCEDURE email ( p_sender in varchar2, p_recipient in varchar2, p_subject in varchar2, p_body in varchar2 ) is l_mailhost varchar2(30) := 'my.host.com'; l_mailconn utl_smtp.connection; l_mesg varchar2(6000); BEGIN l_mailconn := utl_smtp.open_connection(l_mailhost, 25); l_mesg := 'Date: ' || TO_CHAR( SYSDATE, 'dd Mon yy hh24:mi:ss' ) || chr(13) || chr(10) || 'From: '||p_sender|| chr(13) || chr(10) || 'Subject: '||p_subject|| chr(13) || chr(10) || 'To: '||p_recipient|| chr(13) || chr(10) || 'Content-type: text/plain'|| chr(13) || chr(10) || '' || chr(13) || chr(10) || p_body; utl_smtp.helo(l_mailconn, mailhost); utl_smtp.mail(l_mailconn, p_sender); utl_smtp.rcpt(l_mailconn, p_recipient); utl_smtp.data(l_mailconn, l_mesg); utl_smtp.quit(l_mailconn); END email; / --- Here is how I am trying to execute the procedure from sql plus: DECLARE P_SENDER VARCHAR2(32767); P_RECIPIENT VARCHAR2(32767); P_SUBJECT VARCHAR2(32767); P_BODY VARCHAR2(32767); BEGIN P_SENDER := 'xxxx@yyy'; P_RECIPIENT := 'xxxx@yyy'; P_SUBJECT := 'long text message'; P_BODY := '1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 7 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 8 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 9 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 10 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 11 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 12 34567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 21 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789'; EMAIL ( P_SENDER, P_RECIPIENT, P_SUBJECT, P_BODY ); COMMIT; END; / --- SQL> @long_sp; PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. -- The email message is: long text message xxx@yyyy Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:52 AM To: xxx@yyyy 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 7 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 8 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 9 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234 Does anybody had similar problems or have any ideas how to fix? Thanks!! Ina -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l