Thank you Greg and Kenneth, that did the trick for me.

I think I've found the answer in BOL, although it took me a long time to find it. Anyway, what I did was to enter the following in a...

Oh, OK, Pradeep and Greg. I thought that I would have to let the job run, in order for it to reschedule itself. Thank you for letting me...

Thank you Jack and RBerry.

I'm a developer first, and then a DBA second (because none are on site), so I will be following this discussion closely. Because I am a developer, I am...

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...