How to send mail from Stored Procedure?

Question

I need to send a mail from Stored Procedure. I knew it is possible. I studied it from this link . How do i authenticat in SMTP Server. Do you have any idea.?

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Answer 1

You can use SQL Database Mail.

See Database Mail and SQL Mail Stored Procedures (Transact-SQL)

And here's a Tutorial

Answer 2

Using extended stored procedures to create an use and ActiveX that sends the email or create an assembly that sends the mails and use it from sql2008.