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Feature Request FR-3670
Product Area Application Builder
Status CLOSED

4 Voters

Allow third party SMTP support in APEX

sandipan.banerjee Public · Mar 6 2024

Idea Summary
Currently third party SMTP host setups are not supported in APEX on Autonomous Database. We can configure the internal customer SMTP hosts with or without Authentications in APEX Instance Configuration, but it does not clears the queue when we use APEX_MAIL package to send an email.

Use Case
Sometimes customer wants APEX cloud applications should be able to send emails to it's Internal customer and they should be Internal, not marked as External emails. Sometimes to achieve that they need us to relay the mails through the Internal SMTP servers. Which is probably is not supported in APEX on cloud Autonomous Database. It only supports relay through Oracle provided SMTP servers.

This is a great idea! You can already achieve this in APEX today with a slightly different approach.

Comments

Comments

  • vincent morneau Admin OP 1.7 years ago

    Hi @sandipan.banerjee , we discussed your idea and this appears to be out of APEX scope of responsibilities. If you think this is something the APEX platform can address, feel free to write back with more details.

  • vladislav.uvarov APEX Team OP 7 months ago

    At this time, APEX on Autonomous Database Serverless does support third party email providers as long as your database is configured with a Private Endpoint (PE). This is described in Send Email from Oracle APEX chapter of Using Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless documentation (updated on May 20, 2025).