I am moving an application from an NT4 box running SQL 7 to a Win 2003 server running SQL 2000 (SP3) that requires mail for incoming data. I have configured SQL Mail (& Agent Mail) according to all the MS KB recommendations (domain account, admin, etc.). I can send & receive mail manually and the SQL configuration works, sort of.
If I leave Outlook closed and process the mail application everything works fine. If I then open Outlook (to get it to retrieve mail) I get a message indicating that the post office file is in use. I have to use Query Analyzer and run xp_stopmail to get Outlook to open successfully.
If I leave Outlook open and try to process the mail the job fails again usually with a message indicating a conflict on the postoffice file. I say usually because occasionally it will just lock up the job requiring stopping/starting SQL Agent, SQL itself, and in one instance the server.
On our NT/SQL7 machine we leave the Outlook running all the time and the processing jobs (which are scheduled) run successfully.
Any ideas out there?
If I leave Outlook closed and process the mail application everything works fine. If I then open Outlook (to get it to retrieve mail) I get a message indicating that the post office file is in use. I have to use Query Analyzer and run xp_stopmail to get Outlook to open successfully.
If I leave Outlook open and try to process the mail the job fails again usually with a message indicating a conflict on the postoffice file. I say usually because occasionally it will just lock up the job requiring stopping/starting SQL Agent, SQL itself, and in one instance the server.
On our NT/SQL7 machine we leave the Outlook running all the time and the processing jobs (which are scheduled) run successfully.
Any ideas out there?
