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:
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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