Database Mail in SQL Server 2005

Database Mail in SQL Server 2005: "The SQL Mail problems, that we faced in SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, are no more. SQL Server 2005 supports and uses SMTP email now and there is no longer a need to MAPI client to send email. In SQL Server 2005, the mail feature is called Database Mail. In this article, I am going to demonstrate step-by-step, with illustrations, how to configure Database Mail and send email from SQL Server."