Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
Receiving Email
The only way for SQL Server 2008 to receive email is by using the legacy stored procedures, such as sp_processmail, with SQL Mail. Database Mail does not support receiving incoming messages because there is no IMAP or POP3 support. This may have something to do with the fact that receiving email can represent a major security risk. Imagine what a denial-of-service attack on a database cluster could do to an organization. Or consider the danger of an incoming email request resulting in the execution of a query such as DROP DATABASE X. Most SQL Server data is too precious to jeopardize in this manner. Microsoft has also made it clear that SQL Mail will be phased out in the next release of SQL Server. Plus, there are many better ...
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