Is SSIS Send Mail task using SQL Mail only?

• Hardy21

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  April 3, 2012 at 4:43 am

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  Hello,

  We are using SQL 2008 R2. As per the current requirement, we need to send email as per SSIS package execution.

  I know we need to use SQL Mail or SSIS Send Mail task for sending the email.

  I would like to know - Is SSIS Send mail use SQL Mail feature only (means internally) ?

  What is pros & cons to use SSIS Send Mail task?

  Thanks

• Lynn Pettis

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  April 3, 2012 at 9:04 pm

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  The SSIS Send Mail Task uses SMTP for semding emails. I haven't used it but it should be fairly stable to use.

• SQLRNNR

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  April 3, 2012 at 9:10 pm

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  DB Mail does not need to be configured in order to use the SSIS send mail task.

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• Hardy21

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  April 3, 2012 at 9:53 pm

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  Thanks for your response.

  I would like to know - Is SSIS Send mail use Database Mail feature only (means internally) ?

  What is pros & cons to use SSIS Send Mail task?

  Thanks

• SQLRNNR

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  April 3, 2012 at 10:09 pm

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  No SSIS Send mail does not use Database mail internally.

  As far as pros cons - it's 6 in one half a dozen in the other. They are equal in my opinion.

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• Koen Verbeeck

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  April 4, 2012 at 4:42 am

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  Hardy21 (4/3/2012)

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  Thanks for your response.

  I would like to know - Is SSIS Send mail use Database Mail feature only (means internally) ?

  What is pros & cons to use SSIS Send Mail task?

  You can use database mail in SQL Server Agent, to notify people if jobs have failed. It's pretty easy to configure. It's a bit easier in database mail to append result sets of queries to the e-mail and e-mails with HTML are also a bit of a challenge in SSIS, but everything can be done.

  As said before, there are no real differences.

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