Onkar, This means that the mail server is either not at that ip address or you cannot reach it Hope this helps. Tom ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Onkar N Tiwary Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 7:49 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: SMTP error Hi all, I am trying to send mail using the following procedure. its just the simple one but i am getting the error however SMTP service is configured on the system and initplsj.sql and initjvm.sql(if not wrong) has been executed successfully. Need ur valuable comments. SQL> ed Wrote file afiedt.buf 1 DECLARE 2 v_connection UTL_SMTP.CONNECTION; 3 BEGIN 4 v_connection := UTL_SMTP.OPEN_CONNECTION('192.9.200.8',25); 5 UTL_SMTP.HELO(v_connection,' 192.9.200.8 <http://192.9.200.8> '); 6 UTL_SMTP.MAIL(v_connection,'pasha@xxxxxxxxxxx'); 7 UTL_SMTP.RCPT(v_connection,'moqthiyar@xxxxxxxxx'); 8 UTL_SMTP.DATA(v_connection,'Sent From PL/SQL'); 9 UTL_SMTP.QUIT(v_connection); 10* END; SQL> / DECLARE * ERROR at line 1: ORA-29278: SMTP transient error: 421 Service not available ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_SMTP", line 21 ORA-06512: at " SYS.UTL_SMTP", line 97 ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_SMTP", line 139 ORA-06512: at line 4 TIA -- Thanks & Regards, T. Onkar Nath OneAPPS Enterprise Technology Pvt. Ltd. to_onkar@xxxxxxxxx onkarnath.tiwary@xxxxxxxxx