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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
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Sending Email

The SSB queues that Database Mail uses must first be enabled before you can send mail from a session. You do this by executing the msdb stored procedure sysmail_start_sp. This procedure is similar to its predecessor, xp_startmail (as it must be called before sending), except that it has no parameters and, of course, has nothing to do with MAPI. It returns 0 or 1, indicating success or failure. If you don’t call this procedure, you receive this error message:

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To temporarily disable SSB’s activation of the mail process, you execute sysmail_stop_sp (also with no parameters), which returns 0 or 1. If you send mail from code after this ...

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