Thanks for that, but we are trying to change accounts and passwords on SQL 2005. This has changed from the easy days of SQL 2000. Now you must...

Yes, we are for a variety of reasons. And changing both the account and password can't be done without cycling the SQL Server service, so we know that there...

We are in the same boat.  We noticed the problem on a group of replication subscribers that we recently upgraded.  Our weekly integrity checks doubled in completion time after we...

Interesting to know someone is having a similar problem.

How do you know that they are taking a long time to synchronize with the mail server?  Have you done network traces?

Unfortunately...

The only dependency is SQL Agent is dependent upon SQL Server, and that starts normally.

Outlook does not run as a service.

Thanks.

~JDP