I checked port 25 with telnet and it seems fine but just to be safe I would like to double check.  If I am on a server running windows server 2000 where do...

On what facts does sql decide to mark the status as sent in the logs?  I mean does it communicate with the SMTP server and waiting for a reply of some...

We only have one mail server and it is located on a different machine so in my profile the server name is something like 10.10.1.3

To answer your last question, yes my email address used in my profile is fully fonctionnal. 

After sending a test email I looked at my SMTP Mail Server Logs and I saw...

The logs I shows:

8h15 AM "DatabaseMail process is started".

8h25  AM "DatabaseMail process is shutting down".

I see no other kind of message.

Ric

Thanks for your reply this was very helpful information and got me going on the right track for sure.  However I seem to be stuck.  I set my Database Mail...