Activation Failure Error? in Database Mail

  • hi all,

     

    Have any one came accross with this error in SQL 2005? I am getting error in log for sending email notification when job fails.

    log says:

    Date  7/11/2007 2:01:46 PM

    Log  Database Mail (Database Mail Log)

    Log ID  142

    Last Modified  7/11/2007 2:01:46 PM

    Last Modified By  sa

    Message

    Activation failure.

    Event viewer says:

    The description for Event ID ( 9724 ) in Source ( MSSQL$SQLMEASP ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: [dbo].[sp_sysmail_activate], msdb.dbo.ExternalMailQueue, Could not create DatabaseMail90.exe process. Executing API 'CreateProcess' failed with error number 3..

    What is the solution to this please. I have SQL 2005  SP2!

     

  • Hi,

    I know its a very old posting, but we are having the same issue since today, so did you ever work out?

    Regards,

    Jan

  • Is this occuring on a clustered sql server instance?

    MJ

  • Hi,

    no cluster, its an Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition (64-bit) Server with 3 named instances.

    Regards,

    Jan

  • I've seen a fix for db mail in a cumulative update for sp3, sql 2005. Is that it, by chance?

  • I think our infrastructure team just did a "repair" installation to fix it. Not a nice solution but it worked :-D.

    Regards,

    Jan

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