Re: MS SQL Server vs Oracle vs DB2 (&Sybase too)

 You're talking at cross purposes. xp_sendmail is a SQL Server extended stored-procedure. This xp ONLY does MAPI calls (no SMTP calls).  

 "sendmail" is a Unix term for a command-line SMTP mail sender. The two have nothing to do with each other.  

 > > All versions of SQL Server use the same MAPI api.
>
> I had thought earlier more Sybase-ish versions used xp_sendmail. Or at least
> they should have. xp_sendmail works very reliably. Dunno what MS's fascination
> is w/ MAPI <g>.
>
> /l
>

 Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd  (Please reply only to newsgroups)
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