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sp_send_dbmail

JimS-Indy

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January 11, 2012 at 11:30 am

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My client uses SQL Server 2005, though I have SSMA 2008 available to me.
I want to send an email with a caption on it ('Red Cross Rescue Team <RCRT@redcross.org>') instead of just the basic email address. SS2k8's version of sp_send_dbmail has a parameter on called @from_address that appears to allow this. Is it possible to copy the source from ss2k8's sp_send_dbmail to my ss2k5 database and execute it, or is that not gonna work?
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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 1

JimS-Indy (1/11/2012)
My client uses SQL Server 2005, though I have SSMA 2008 available to me.
I want to send an email with a caption on it ('Red Cross Rescue Team <RCRT@redcross.org>') instead of just the basic email address. SS2k8's version of sp_send_dbmail has a parameter on called @from_address that appears to allow this. Is it possible to copy the source from ss2k8's sp_send_dbmail to my ss2k5 database and execute it, or is that not gonna work?

Doesn't look like a good idea.

Have you tried editing the profile? Maybe there's a way to edit the profile's address to include the caption.

-- Gianluca Sartori

JimS-Indy SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4514 More actions · Answer 2

I got the IT group to modify the Email's display name. I'll make due with that until they put up SS2k12. Thanks.

Jim

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004434 More actions · Answer 3

You could always use CDOSYS instead.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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