Problem With Send Mail Task

  • When I try to send a email by using a Send Mail Task the task completes successfully but the email never arrives. When I then go into outlook I see the email appear in the sent email folder. I then receive the email.

    Thanks for any Help.

    Jo

  • What version of outlook is it?

    Outlook 97/98 requires you to leave the outlook open othersise the mail will get stuck in the outbox.

    hth

     

    David

  • This might be of use to you

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;263556

     

    David

  • Very bored tonight

    If all else fails have a look at these posts and you can bin outlook.

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=187&messageid=133926

    This solution works well.

     

    David

  • i'm using outlook 2000.

  • I probably should haved mentioned that the profile is configured to use SMTP/POP and both work fine from outlook.

    Thanks

    Jo

  • I'm not sure how you have things configured, but on my server I have to leave Outlook open because I have a interval of 5 minutes on my send/receive and it won't run unless Outlook is open.


    Kindest Regards,

    CRC

  • Do you actually have  a valid account set up for SMTP?  Or is is your company allowing you shoot your SQL mail through a company SMTP server w/o an account?  If not you'll want to leave the "remember password" checkbox left unchecked.  I've had similar issues using Outlook 2000 and SMTP and sqlmail.  Typically, what happens is that it'll send out the first email after which it'll check for any incoming mail....but the authentication will fail because account doesn't exist so it'll hang and any future emails will get stuck in the outbox until SQL server is restarted.  XP_send will continue to run sucessfully and won't return any errors through SQL Server.

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