Lowell,

Thanks for responding. I should have clarified that in my posting - the email account has the full domain. And the mapping you mentioned was done. I did some more digging and at least for now I have an intermin solution.

I changed the SMTP authentication from anonymous to Basic, entered the credentials for the account, bounced the SQL agent and sent a test email to the group account. It worked. I do need to speak with our exchange administrator because anonymous does work for one of our 2008 instances.

You were spot on with your comments about the group account requirements.

Thank you for responding.