Thanks for the reply, Lowell. I'm happy at the moment after finding that my main problem was triggered by a blank send-to line in one of the records.

Thanks very much for the reply. I will look at applying your suggestions. I'm self-taught and it sometimes shows.

Just a moment ago I came across the solution to my immediate...

Just now came across the solution:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1031950-391-1.aspx

UPDATE: The lag between createdate and senddate continued to grow overnight till it was about 9 hours. We rebooted the server this morning, but again, no change.

I noticed that if...

Makes sense. Thanks so much!

opc.three: I appreciate the cautions.

I'm not a SQL Server power user by any means. I generally take defaults, and I'm hesitant to mess with the settings of tempdb. It looks...

Thanks for the response. I shared your comments with management. Well see where this goes.

We're a company intranet with a customer help-desk interface. I have around 200 staff users and...

That makes sense. Thanks a lot. Will give it a shot.

The one big drawback with Database Mail for me is the inability to programmatically set Reply-To. We have a no-reply account I send with, and the emails all begin, "PLEASE...

Thanks, and sorry to bother you a second time. I'll read up on @mailitem_id.

Hmm. I had a look at the tables mentioned in the article you suggested. Looks like they would do the job except for one thing: How do you query for...

Thanks, Elliott. Sounds like a pain.

I have my own queue I'm pulling emails from, so I'm going to switch back to CDO within my stored procedure job and do my...