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Starting and stopping mail queue

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Starting and stopping mail queue - Amazon Relational Database Service

Use the following instructions to start and stop the DB mail queue:

Starting the mail queue

You use the rds_sysmail_control stored procedure to start the Database Mail process.

Note

Enabling Database Mail automatically starts the mail queue.

To start the mail queue
  • Use the following SQL statement.

    EXECUTE msdb.dbo.rds_sysmail_control start; GO

Stopping the mail queue

You use the rds_sysmail_control stored procedure to stop the Database Mail process.

To stop the mail queue
  • Use the following SQL statement.

    EXECUTE msdb.dbo.rds_sysmail_control stop; GO
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