Configuring Mail Profiles

Configuring Mail Profiles

SQL Mail and SQLAgentMail can use the same or different mail profile. If necessary, each mail profile can be configured within its own domain account.

Configuring a SQL Mail Profile

When configured, mail profiles are specific to the Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 or Windows® 2000 user domain account that is activated when a user logs on to Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 successfully. SQL Mail must have a mail profile created in the same user domain account or context that is used to start an instance of Microsoft SQL Server™. When a mail stored procedure is executed, SQL Mail looks for the defined mail profile in the domain account that triggered it.

If you plan to use mail stored procedures you must:

• Have a mail server that is extended MAPI-compliant.
  
  
• Configure a mail profile for MSSQLServer to use to connect to your mail server.

To configure a mail profile