Database Mail Tutorials

Posted on by Ian

I’ve written quite a number of tutorials for using Database Mail, and I’ve created this article to list them all in one place.

I first included these links at the bottom of How to Send Emails from SQL Server (T-SQL), but I thought it might be helpful to move them to their own article as a quick-reference.

Tutorials Using the Configuration Wizard

Here’s a list of tutorials that use the SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) graphical user interface to carry out common Database Mail tasks.

These involve the Database Mail Configuration Wizard, which walks you through each task.

Tutorials using T-SQL

The following tutorials use T-SQL instead of the SSMS GUI.

Using T-SQL is usually a lot quicker (once you’ve written the code), because all you need to do is open a new query tab and run the code.

Sending Mail

Listing Accounts, Profiles, etc

Configuration Settings

Checking Sent Mail, etc

Configuring Accounts & Profiles