> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net]
> Sent: 15 November 2005 13:45
> To: Dave Page; Martijn van Oosterhout
> Cc: Andreas Joseph Krogh; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Running PostGre on DVD
>
> > > Yes. And this is a good thing! :-)
> > > There is no reason a normal user should be able to run a service
> > > process. And services should normally have dedicated
> accounts, and
> > > there is no reason you should ever need to log in as that account
> > > interactively.
> >
> > Yes there is, to setup a MAPI profile for the service to use.
> >
> > However I'd welcome it if you could prove that wrong with an
> > easy way to create a profile for a different user :-)
>
> Just don't use MAPI from a service. It was *NOT* made for doing that.
> MAPI was created for a single user running a single-threaded app on a
> single console.
>
> There are plenty of other ways to get to your mail, that will actually
> work :-)
Better tell that to the SQL Server team then 'cos that's exactly how the
SQL Agent sends mail :-)
/D
