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immadi74 Valued Member Points: 73 More actions · Answer 1

It worked perfeclty fine with port 587 .....Awesome...Thanks Imran

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Great stuff 🙂

The_SQL_DBA SSChampion Points: 10494 More actions · Answer 3

Good post. I was able to configure database mail successfully to my gmail account. But, when I send a message it says 'Message Queued' and I did not receive any emails. Any ideas?

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- Win. SSCertifiable Points: 6790 More actions · Answer 4

Just Gone through earlier posts and tried.

I successfully created DBMail Setup using smtp.gmail.com,

with basic authentication of my GMail account and password,

Created a profile using a server name : smtp.gmail.com, port : 587.

Then I configured a report server 2005 , (generated a report as Transactions and scheduled to subscribe my GMAIL account) for this profile and tried subscribing to my gmail account.

When i just tried a query through Query Analyzer it shows "Mail Queued". But when i see the DB Mail Log, the error is as:

Error Log:

Date1/12/2010 12:09:07 PM

LogDatabase Mail (Database Mail Log)

Log ID77

Process ID4192

Mail Item ID38

Last Modified1/12/2010 12:09:07 PM

Last Modified Bysa

Message

The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using Account 1 (2010-01-12T12:09:07). Exception Message: Could not connect to mail server. (No such host is known).

)

Correct me if am wrong in any areas.

My criteria is to get a report server report daily to my gmail account using the SMTP of gmail. So that can configure to my local machine with local internet.

Any suggestions ?

Cheers,
- Win.

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- Win. SSCertifiable Points: 6790 More actions · Answer 5

Can anyone suggest how to work with Report Server - reports using GMAIL (smtp.gmail.com)

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- Win.

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caspersql SSCrazy Points: 2276 More actions · Answer 6

tcnolan (4/6/2009)
Double check your password... if you made a setting change and saved the profile, go back and re-enter the password and save the profile again. ... make sure to re-enter your password when you make the change again, for some reason SSMS only prints two or three stars in the password box, and seemingly recalculates a hash based on some hidden text in there.
I had the same thing happen to me. I have a 12 or so character password that was redisplayed as only two stars when I went back in to change settings and re-saving made auth fail. Went in and entered my password again and I had success.

I experienced the same issue and solution. I was stumped because outbound gmail smtp settings were working fine in outlook but not in SQL server 2005. Finally I checked to see if the number of stars that were displayed instead of my password in database mail settings was less than the number of characters in my password like you described and sure enough - they were. So I re-entered the password and it worked.

Note that I can recreate the problem so this wasn't a case of me getting the password wrong the first time, rather it is a glitch in SSMS. Every time I go back and change a setting in database mail, if I don't re-enter my password before applying the change I get this error message:

The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using Account 1 (2010-02-20T18:48:17). Exception Message: Cannot send mails to mail server. (The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at ). )

Thanks tcnolan!

- Win. SSCertifiable Points: 6790 More actions · Answer 7

Still i have the same issue with my office machine and my PC as well...

The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using Account 1 (2010-02-22T11:55:33). Exception Message: Could not connect to mail server. (No such host is known). )

Tried the same but no use from many days... So i gave up in the last month itself.....

________________________________________________________________

Use smtp.gmail.com for the server

port to 465

Require secure connections checked

Basic authentication with your gmail username and

password (make sure you use the full email address for username with @gmail.com at the end)________________________________________________________________

I think something is hitting back in INDIA...

Cheers,
- Win.

" Have a great day "

Infamous Valued Member Points: 68 More actions · Answer 8

Well I tried all the above steps.I'm using SQL server 2005 and this is what my version check returns :

Created a Database mail and tested it, sends mail perfectly. But when i create a operator and set it to notify on job completion, it doesn't work. I get the error message :

The job succeeded. The Job was invoked by User. The last step to run was step 1 (CB Sync). NOTE: Failed to notify 'new_notify' via email.

[264] An attempt was made to send an email when no email session has been established

And yes i have tried all the above suggestions , enabled Database mail profile in SQL server agent , restarted my agent million times so far :crying:. But i still keep getting the same message, no matter what port i use (25,465,587).

Any suggestions would be helpful

- Win. SSCertifiable Points: 6790 More actions · Answer 9

I tested the same steps once again with the Port number : 587.

It worked like a charm. recieved mails from server.

Try with port : 587

Cheers,
- Win.

" Have a great day "

John Racer Valued Member Points: 52 More actions · Answer 10

Works like a charm! No restart of the agent required when I testing in 2008R2

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 11

sayfrend (4/7/2009)
Try disabling your windows fire wall

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LutzM SSC Guru Points: 107049 More actions · Answer 12

Jeff Moden (11/28/2010)
sayfrend (4/7/2009)
Try disabling your windows fire wall
Don't do it for love nor money. 😉

After more than 18 month the advice is still true... I'm not sure if it's too late though 😉

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azad maratha Default port Points: 1468 More actions · Answer 13

HI,

it will not happen unless you have a mail server.coz it has a dedicated IP through which it sends msgs from sql server to whichever mail account.

i have tried like what u r doing couple of yrs back.didnt work out.

so setup a mail server.then u r set to go.

Thanks & Regards

Azad

KoldCoffee SSCoach Points: 18971 More actions · Answer 14

Still pertinent and very precise instructions. Thank you very much for the time you took. It helped me today.

caspersql SSCrazy Points: 2276 More actions · Answer 15

The 'set port to 587' (even though Google says this port is for TLS/STARTTLS) and 'reenter your password if you make changes to the dbmail profile' (because SQL forgets what you entered the first time) advice helped me to get this going after trying different things for the last hour or two - thanks folks!