Moving mail accounts to new Exchange Server - does SQL need to be restarted?

  • Hi,

    Our sysadmins are moving our database-mail (and Outlook-profile accounts) over to a new Exchange server.

    Do we need to restart our SQL-server instances (and/or SQL Agent services) after the move?

    What else do we need to do as a result of this change?

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  • I don't think so, but you might need a restart of dbmail. Haven't tested this in 2005 and no Exchange server (or 2) to try with.

  • Is there a stop/start in 2005 as there was in 2000? Don't see one, and I think that each time you call the XP, it logs on, doesn't keep a session open like MAPI.

  • Steve Jones - Editor (9/26/2008)


    Is there a stop/start in 2005 as there was in 2000? Don't see one, and I think that each time you call the XP, it logs on, doesn't keep a session open like MAPI.

    We are trying it now for a couple of accounts. Will post further once I know more.

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    Persisting SQL Server Index-Usage Statistics with MERGE[/url]
    Turbocharge Your Database Maintenance With Service Broker: Part 2[/url]

  • We tried the move for mail accounts on servers using both OUTLOOK (sql mail) and SMTP (db mail) to send mail.

    For SQL Server 2005 instances using smtp (db mail): All I had to change was the server name in the db mail configuration screens, with no service restart necessary

    However, I get the following error when using xp_sendmail on SQL 2000 instances - after changing the name of the Exchange server in OUTLOOK:

    Msg 18025, Level 16, State 1, Line 0

    xp_sendmail: failed with mail error 0x80004005

    Running "xp_stopmail", "xp_startmail" fixed that.

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    SQL Server 2016 Columnstore Index Enhancements - System Views for Disk-Based Tables[/url]
    Persisting SQL Server Index-Usage Statistics with MERGE[/url]
    Turbocharge Your Database Maintenance With Service Broker: Part 2[/url]

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