Database Mail is an enterprise solution for sending e-mail messages from the SQL Server Database Engine. Using Database Mail, your database applications can send e-mail messages to users. The messages can contain query results, and files from any resource on your network. Database Mail is designed for reliability, scalability, security, and supportability.
Questions tagged [database-mail]
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How can I see the current Database Mail configuration?
Our SQL Server (2008) instance is configured to send mail and everything is working correctly, but I can't figure out how to view the existing configuration, in particular the SMTP server.
From SSMS I can only start the configuration wizard, and I…
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Enable TLS 1.2 for SQL Server 2016 database mail
I have been puzzled by this issue for almost 1 week. Hopefully someone in our community has experienced the same issue and already found a solution.
So here is my problem:
As per our company policy, we want database mail to be able to send emails…
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SQL Server 2016 DB Mail Not Sending
I'm on SQL Server 2016 and having a blast... my DB Mail isn't sending and I'm running out of places to look. I double checked the SQL account permissions to the DBmail executable - it has read and execute. I entered a rule for the firewall outbound…
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sp_send_dbmail stored procedure send with attachment
I've been tasked with sending a small monthly report to for one of my customers. The report has previously been run manually on the instance, the output copied to a spreadsheet and send to the customer as an attachment.
I'm looking for a more…
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Need to Send a formatted HTML Email via Database Mail in Sql Server 2008 R2
My requirement is to create the automated email as ( A formatted HTML Email via Database Mail) The basic requirement has been completed where when the Job is triggered it inserts the data into a Table and that information has been scheduled to be…
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How to export the output of sp_AskBrent?
We have an instance that randomly spikes the CPU. I want to create an alert that fires on CPU over 90% and automatically calls a job that runs sp_AskBrent and emails me the output. However, the output is unreadable in either Text or HTML output. It…
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What permissions does the service account need to use database mail?
I have an SQL Server 2012 instance running under a managed service account. I've configured database mail with one account and am trying to send a test email, but I'm getting some errors in the server's event logs:
Database Engine…
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SQL Server alerts not sending notification emails to the operator
I have setup few SQL Server alerts and added Operator to notify if any alert occurred.
I just noticed that couple of alerts did occurred but we didn't receive any alert email. I did send a test notification email to the operator and it worked and we…
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How to select the mail profile in a sql agent job
I have several mail profiles configured on sql agent, how can I choose which of these profiles gets used for sending out notifications on a specific sql agent job ?
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Trouble With Database Permissions for sp_send_mail
I am trying to send database mail but I am getting EXECUTE permission denied on the object 'sp_send_dbmail' database 'msdb', schema 'dbo'.. I code I am running is as follows:
SELECT SUSER_NAME(), USER_NAME();
Create USER kyle_temp FOR LOGIN…
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NVARCHAR(MAX) string appears to have 6326 characters but won't PRINT them all
I am writing a stored procedure to use the sp_send_dbmail system stored procedure to send an HTML email. I have used this procedure before but have not run into this problem before. I am using the build method laid out here
From online I believe…
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Execute Sql statement and send result to email
I have to execute SQL statement every day and send result to dba by email.I configured database email.
Below is query:
SELECT
account.accountID,
account.name
FROM
account
LEFT OUTER JOIN accountfeaturesetting afs…
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Is there a way to force sp_send_dbmail to use ANSI, or to not include the Unicode prefix?
This is pretty trivial, but if someone has the answer handy, I'd appreciate it.
I use the msdb..sp_send_dbmail stored procedure as a lightweight way to distribute simple reports. This often entails producing a CSV. However, the stored procedure…
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What are the sp_send_dbmail return values?
I have an email failing with function return value of '101' and @@error value of '0' (no rows are added to sysmail_allitems).
Where can I find documentation on return codes for this function?
Example code showing how I obtain the above values:
exec…
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Can send test database mail but job emails failing
I stopped receiving sql agent job failure notifications in the recent past. Upon investigation the error reported is:
The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using Account 1…
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