Database mail trouble shooting initial setup

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Database mail trouble shooting initial setup

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August 1, 2010 at 7:48 pm

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I've recently setup database mail, I can send a test email and I receive these ok but I cannot send a 'real' email by script. I am getting a sent status as 'sent' as per example below.
Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?
This query:
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@recipients=N'myemail@mydomain.com',
@body='Message Body',
@subject ='Message Subject automated test',
@profile_name ='mailtest',
@file_attachments ='C:\FileAttachment.txt';
Followed by this query a minute later
SELECTmailitem_id, subject,file_attachments,sent_status, sent_date
FROM msdb.dbo.sysmail_allitems;
Returns:
16 Message Subject automated testC:\FileAttachment.txt sent 2010-08-02 11:32:27.000

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Adiga One Orange Chip Points: 27284 More actions · Answer 1

Did you try sending the message to yourself without the attachments?

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DeveloperDotNet SSC Enthusiast Points: 115 More actions · Answer 2

Yes, the same result occurs with or without the attachment.

Adiga One Orange Chip Points: 27284 More actions · Answer 3

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@recipients=N'myemail@mydomain.com',
@body='Message Body',
@subject ='Message Subject automated test',
@profile_name ='mailtest',
@file_attachments ='C:\FileAttachment.txt';

What is the output after executing the above query? Do you see any error messages?

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Twitter: @pradeepadiga

DeveloperDotNet SSC Enthusiast Points: 115 More actions · Answer 4

Adiga (8/1/2010)
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@recipients=N'myemail@mydomain.com',
@body='Message Body',
@subject ='Message Subject automated test',
@profile_name ='mailtest',
@file_attachments ='C:\FileAttachment.txt';
What is the output after executing the above query? Do you see any error messages?

The query executes successfully and results in 'Mail queued.' in the messages pane.

In case it helps if I run this statement 'sysmail_help_queue_sp @queue_type = 'Mail' ;' against the msdb i get the following in the results pane:

mail0RECEIVES_OCCURRING2010-08-02 05:59:41.8872010-08-02 05:59:34.870'

Bhuvnesh SSC Guru Points: 59351 More actions · Answer 5

Check the database log

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135374 More actions · Answer 6

does your service account have the authorities to read the attached file(s) ?

edit: yes, or it should have provided the error:

Msg 22051, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
Attachment file <filename> is invalid.

Is there any filtering occuring at your mail server ?

(attachment content rules, ...)

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Jenny Richardson Ten Centuries Points: 1157 More actions · Answer 7

Is service broker enabled?

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189959.aspx for more info.