go on www.sourceforge.net/projects/alcinoe/

in it you have udf sample and a component called alSMTPCLient.
you can use it to write your udf function

Regards

stephane

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>
> has anyone implemented a method of sending email directly from a
> database stored procedure (fb 2.1) on a unix (fedora 8) platform,
>
> any suggestions on implementation method, I'm currently thinking of
> having a table that holds the email details and having an event posted
> on insert, with an external program waiting on the event
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