xp_sendmail question

[Steve Renaker]

Is it possible to use a SELECT statement for the @recipients field
with xp_sendmail? What I want to do is get a list of email
addresses from a table and send mail to them with xp_sendmail.

Thanks,

Steve Renaker
srenaker@alexa.com

[Donnie]

I don't think you can use a SELECT statement there.

One really convoluted approach I came up with when trying to do a similar thing was something like this:

declare @i int, @max_i int, @address varchar(255)

SELECT
identity(int,1,1) as id, email
INTO #email
FROM
MyTable
WHERE
'.....'
AND email is not null

select @i = 1, @address = ''
select @max_i = (select max(id) from #email)

while @i <= @max_i
BEGIN
select @address = @address + (select email from #email where id = @i) + &#39;;&#39;
select @i = @i + 1
END

exec master..xp_sendmail @recipients=@address, @message=&#39;this is a test message&#39;, @subject=&#39;hello..&#39;


Good luck,
Donnie

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Steve Renaker at 9/21/99 2:28:21 PM

Is it possible to use a SELECT statement for the @recipients field
with xp_sendmail? What I want to do is get a list of email
addresses from a table and send mail to them with xp_sendmail.

Thanks,

Steve Renaker
srenaker@alexa.com