Comments on: SQL SERVER – Difference Between Database Mail and SQLMail

By: Kavitha Basam

Kavitha Basam — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:36:07 +0000

Hi Pinal,

What is the main difference between sql mail and database mail.Is this possible to send mails using SQL mail with SMTP

Thanks in advance

By: melih

melih — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:32:18 +0000

Hi Pinal,
i want to use database mail.i configure sql server.i can sent test mail from management studio but i use ” EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail” stored procedure mail unable received.When i looked for the sysmail_allitems table in msdb database,i sent the mails status is sent.
How can i solution this sitution ?

By: salM

salM — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:37:42 +0000

i want to start change SQL Mail to Database mail . can i active both sql mail and database mail , then only change sql mail code to database code one at a time.

By: piyush

piyush — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:33:21 +0000

Hello i want to enable sql mail in sql server 2005 express .

By: abhimanyukumarvatsa

abhimanyukumarvatsa — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:05:43 +0000

hi Pinal Sir

Is this possible to send Database Mail when I am using shared database hosting and my db host has no “server management studio” extension, i mean i can’t use this.

is this possible now?

By: Pros

Pros — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:01:45 +0000

I absolutely admire your blog. I can see you are putting a lot of effort and hard work on your posts, I’m sure I’d visit here more often.

Thanks for sharing this nice info………..

By: Pros

Pros — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:00:42 +0000

I was very pleased to find this site !!! Did you notice that the Surface Area Configuration tool isn’t provided with MS SQL Server 2008? Configuring Database Mail through SQL Server Management Studio let’s you enable Database Mail…

Thanks for sharing this nice info………..

By: aakash

aakash — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:04:00 +0000

Dear Sir,
how do i send mail from sql server 2005/2008 express edition as they both do not have the feature of database and sql mail?
please help…

By: Shah

Shah — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:15:40 +0000

Hi Pinal,

Good article, but what are the pre-requisites or scenarios where we can make use of this. I wanted to know from a layering point of view.

I would prefer to have my mail logic with front-end layer rather than loading up the database. Can you please advise.

Regards,
Shah

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:53:31 +0000

Hi Pinal,

We have SQL Serve 6.5 and I’m trying to set up SQL Mail.

Can you please provide step by step instructions on how to install it?

Thanks for your help in advance!

Regards,
Joseph

By: Andy Davies

Andy Davies — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:19:20 +0000

We have upgraded from SQL2000 to SQL2008 but by switching to Database Mail from SQL Mail we are now unable to send files in CSV format.

Can someone explain how we send CSV output from SQL Server via Database mail?

Thanks

Andy

By: RAO: RaoatLA

RAO: RaoatLA — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:47:02 +0000

Hi Alunjd,

Before you start enabling DB MAIL on SQL 2005/2008, check port 25 is opened on the server to communicate with exchangeserver.
To do this type in cmd

1.) telnet exchangeservername 25
If it gets connected then you can send email.
2.) Configure Database Mail under Management.
3.) Creator an operator to send email to RCPT’s
4.) Under SQL Server agent properties enable mail profile.
5.) If SQL 2005 then enable DBmail under surface area configuration…….

Good to goo

And thanks Imran Mohammed for previous post..

Rao

By: Alunjd

Alunjd — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:04:49 +0000

I need to read e-mails

how do you do this with SQL 2008 without SQL mail?

By: Georg Gent

Georg Gent — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:20:33 +0000

Sending Emails with DB Mail works fine, but DB Mail can’t read emails! So DB is not a full replacement. Does someone has a suggestion how to read emails?

Thanks

By: Kuldip

Kuldip — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:59:17 +0000

Nice article,
What ever i find i got every information from this website.
it’s great.

By: Hament verma

Hament verma — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:00:37 +0000

Is it possible to send MIME (Multipart email) via Database Mail

Thanks

By: joseph

joseph — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:39:22 +0000

Hi,

You have mentioned in your post that “Database Mail can be encrypted for additional security”. I have tried to find some information regarding this feature but wasn’t able to locate anything. Would you have any technical information (how does it work and how to implement it) regarding this functionality?

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

Joseph

By: Imran Mohammed

Imran Mohammed — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:43:51 +0000

@Rao.

Thanks for appreciation.

When you create a job, in response tab you can send alert when Job completes/ succeeds/ fail.

Usually when a job succeeds or fails you will get a message related to that job in the same alert.

You can use database mail to send alerts.

Look at link below, to know more how. For SQL Server 2005, process is exact same as shown in below link,

Link : http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/08/23/sql-server-2008-configure-database-mail-send-email-from-sql-database/

Another workaround if above procedure does not fulfill your needs, then you can create a logfile for job on operating system ( Right Click Job Name, Click Properties, Double Click Step or edit step, click on Advance tab and select an option that suits best) , the next step (set it in a way, if previous step fails, still this step has to be executed) of the same job will be to send that log file created on operating system through an email ( using xp_sendemail). This will also database mail to send email.

let me know if you have questions.

~ IM.

By: Rao

Rao — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:44:49 +0000

Sorry typo SQL 2005 SP3

By: Rao

Rao — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:41:57 +0000

Imran, I have seen some of your posts on this blog, U have explained them very clearly and in detail,, like Txn trun

I have a question regarding DB mail, is there a way that i can either attach error log or give a detailed error message to the recipient mail when a job fails.
Please let me know if that works on SQL 2005 DB Mail.

Details: Windows 2003 Enterprise
SQL: SQL Server 2005 Enterprise with latest SP4

Thank you,

Rao

By: Imran Mohammed

Imran Mohammed — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:23:53 +0000

@jayant das

If you are using SQL Server 2005, then you have two ways of sending email through SQL Server.

1. Database Mail. (Only SMTP)
2. SQL Mail (Same as SQL Server 2000)

Database Mail does not require any other software, SQL Server itself can send emails given SMTP Server details provded to SQL Server.

If you use SQL Mail, you need to use Outlook. Which I don;t suggest for security reasons and alot of other pain giving reasons

Database Mail is NOT available in SQL Server Express Edition though.

Go through a step by step procedure (screen shots explanation)

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/08/23/sql-server-2008-configure-database-mail-send-email-from-sql-database/

~ IM

By: pinaldave

pinaldave — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:56:28 +0000

@Jayant,

Try : http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/08/23/sql-server-2008-configure-database-mail-send-email-from-sql-database/

Regards,
Pinal

By: jayant das

jayant das — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:25:06 +0000

Dear Pinal

I am using sql server 2005 sp1 but unable to send mail , is there need any aditional software apart from outlook 2003.

Thanks in Advance

Regards
Jayant

By: Karthikeyan

Karthikeyan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:57:11 +0000

good one. is there any condition that db server and smtv server should be on same physical machine?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:30:00 +0000

Hi Pinal,

If I want to read emails and process them using database mail, how can I do it. Are you able to help.

Thanks,