Hi Mike -
Probably want to try another news group. This one focuses on
Notification Services which is different than sending alerts or using
SQL Mail.
Try
microsoft.public.sqlserver.misc
microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming
microsoft.public.sqlserver.server
HTH...
Joe Webb
[quoted text, click to view] Mike Moore wrote:
> Is there any way to determine if an exchange server is
> active before running sql mail?
>
> We don't always no when maintenance is done on our
> exchange servers.
>
> The jobs run, but if the exchange server is down it does
> no good. We show they ran, but it doesn't mean the email