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Neil Pike wrote:
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> 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.
Well Sybase xp_sendmail certainly isn't MAPI on Unix. And we don't even need MAPI client installed for Sybase NT to xp_sendmail. AFAIK, they use SMTP sendmail.
So if you use both Sybase & MS SQL on 2 different platforms (NT, Unix) xp_sendmail & sendmail seem very related.
And your comments leaves me at a quandry why we find xp_sendmail in MS SQL more reliable.
/l Received on Wed May 31 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT