Steve, in your editorial today you said,

I really don't want a bailout, and I would think that most people don't want one. They want to earn their money and...

Do you...

Thank you for this suggestion.

Dark Knight. It wasn't nominated for Best Picture, but I think its great.

Congratulations, Steve, Brian and Andy!!!

Just a quick addendum. Here's the link to the SQL Server 2005 page that is like the page you referenced for SQL 2008:

msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175887(SQL.90).aspx

But I don't see where, on the...

The_SQL_DBA (12/15/2008)

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Database Mail process shuts itself down after a certain period of inactivity. The default value is 10 minutes, which can be changed via Database Mail Configuration Wizard (can be...

I've just taken a look at the logs that you mentioned. The last message I see there is one from 12/6/2008 that says, "DatabaseMail process is shutting down". ...

Well, iqtedar, you put me on the right track. The university said that I had to use port 465, but I decided to use port 25 instead, and it...

I'm using the port that the university says I need to use for outward bound SMTP traffic, and they don't use port 25 (or 26). Although I could get...

I've contacted my network administrator and talked to him about it. He said that it might be possible the firewall is blocking SMTP traffic, so he's going to look...

I wrote a quick .NET app to test it from my PC, and discovered that I'm getting the same error here as well. Very odd, as I can use...

No, I haven't tried sending an email from that server using some other program. That is an interesting idea. I'll see what I can do to make that...

I forgot to mention that I'm also using basic authentication instead of Windows authentication for the SMTP authentication, since it is reaching a SMTP server that isn't a part of...

Lynn, this is a very simple follow-up question, but I've got to ask it. In the one other SQL Job I've written I've got something like:

spMySP 2009, 4

but you...