Configuring SQLAgentMail

Another way to allow e-mail messaging and alerts is through SQL Server Agent. SQL Server Agent allows you to set up alerts to notify users or operators via e-mail, pager, or a Net Send message when certain events are triggered, or it can send messages to report job or job step status. The mail profile used for SQL Agent will typically be the same mail profile used for SQL Mail, but it could be a different mail profile if a different e-mail configuration was needed.

You can set up different mail profiles for SQL Server and SQL Server Agent in two ways. You can either set up separate domain user accounts for each service and configure a mail profile for each user account, or you can use the same domain account for each ...

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