Scripting setup of database mail - sql-server-2008

Question

I've used the SQL Server 2008 GUI to set up database mail profiles & accounts on my test server, and I'd now like to duplicate those to our production database.
Is there a way to generate a script to do this?

Answer 1

AFAIK, there isn't a way to necessarily script this from SSMS but you can create a transportable script in TSQL once and reuse it on all the servers. Here is a good example to get you started with this:
USE [master]
GO
sp_configure 'show advanced options',1
GO
RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE
GO
sp_configure 'Database Mail XPs',1
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO
-- Create a New Mail Profile for Notifications
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_profile_sp
#profile_name = 'DBA_Notifications',
#description = 'Profile for sending Automated DBA Notifications'
GO
-- Set the New Profile as the Default
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_principalprofile_sp
#profile_name = 'DBA_Notifications',
#principal_name = 'public',
#is_default = 1 ;
GO
-- Create an Account for the Notifications
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_account_sp
#account_name = 'SQLMonitor',
#description = 'Account for Automated DBA Notifications',
#email_address = 'email#domain.com', -- Change This
#display_name = 'SQL Monitor',
#mailserver_name = 'smtp.domain.com' -- Change This
GO
-- Add the Account to the Profile
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_profileaccount_sp
#profile_name = 'DBA_Notifications',
#account_name = 'SQLMonitor',
#sequence_number = 1
GO
The other option would be to leverage SMO, either through .NET or powershell to generate the scripts. The SMO reference for this would be:
SqlMail Class
UPDATE:
Here is how easy it turned out to be to script this with Powershell and SMO:
[void][reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo");
#Set the server to script from
$ServerName = "ServerName";
#Get a server object which corresponds to the default instance
$srv = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SMO.Server $ServerName
#Script Database Mail configuration from the server
$srv.Mail.Script();