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    Worst Service I Have Ever Seen

    WOW! I really think this is pretty unheard of in the web hosting business where a recommendation made on a forum is adopted. Yash -- kudos to you and your team for putting this together so quickly. Okay -- I'm sold. I'll be graduating from the trial period -- it's this kind of service...
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    Hi Yash :)) What do you think -- could we add this as a extended stored procedure?? The SQL Public group would need EXEC permissions on the xp_smtp_sendmail extended stored procedure. In my cluster environment, I just made sure to install the xpsmtp80.dll on both sides of the cluster and...
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    ASPMail installation on mssql1.jodoshared.com

    Just an FYI -- I wouldn't recommend sending the email at the point of a database trigger. The best way is to insert a row into a separate email queing table and then schedule a job that sends the email from table driven data. You don't want your transactions dependent on the vagaries of the...
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    Hi -- not using this solution with JodoHost, but maybe if we ask nice, maybe they'll offer it :D Email from SQL Server has always been a pain -- and I've written just about every kind of interface to send email from SQL (xp_sendmail, sp_OA's, even command line blat) and this DLL is really...
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    Tonto, sp_OA procedures are notorious memory leakers and run single threaded -- so I don't recommend this approach. A better approach is to have the xp_smtp_email extended stored procedure installed on the server in question. Please check http://sqldev.net/xp/xpsmtp.htm for more details...
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