….

If so this will be very Interesting logic… If you can’t secure it then kill it… Well…I hope I am wrong, I have an application that reads and process email in 2000 and hoped to upgrade… Any feedback?

So do you have any idea why it’s giving me an ‘authentication required’ error?

You don’t have to setup SMTP on IIS, unless you are planning to use it instead of GMail’s SMTP server.

If you do setup an SMTP server on IIS, then you’ve got to specify “localhost” instead of “smtp.gmail.com”.

-Nitin

I use this exact same account and settings for smtp in C#/ASP.NET and it works there.

Here are my configurations:
- enabled Database Mail stored procedures
- created a new account (smtp.gmail.com, port 587, checked SSL required, valid username, valid password)
- created a new profile that uses that account (public, default)
- send test email (valid email)…

Am I missing something? Do I need to manually add user to DatabaseMailUserRole? (somehow that role did not exist, I had to add it manually)
Do I need to setup an SMTP server in IIS?

Thanks,
Amy

I got the solution for HTML Tags Mail format

Thnax

Regards,
saagar

Thanx for ur this gr8 help.

Some days before i just heard abt Database mail.
I fired query in Google (thanx google :) )
I got ur article.
It works finly.

Just one silly question :
If i want to send mail with HTML tags so what to do for that ?

Thanx again to you and Monica also

Regards,
Saagar

I configured database mail to send me emails when job fails.When the job fails and emial is sent to me on the subject box it says’job completed’.same thing appear if i configure database mail to send email when the job succeeds or completes.How to make the ’subject’ to say ‘job failed’ when the condition was ’send email when job fails’ and ‘job succeed’ when the condition is ’send email when job succeeds’?
Thanks
Marshall

I want to implement a trigger that will send email using database mail whenever anybody creates a new database on a server without letting me know aobut it.Can anybody give me the detail to do it please?
Thanks

!!!!the posts are awesome here.

Marshall

Where Are they?

Your Solution is Not working for me….

Its giving error

The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using Account 5 (2008-11-07T15:23:49). Exception Message: Could not connect to mail server. (No such host is known). )

Thank you

Very,very interesting, i never had of Db Mail before.

I am currently using VB .NET 2008.

My question is, is this what i need to send emails.
Can i get data from the database.
Do you something i can us when i want to send SMS?

Rgds,
Hari

the following script which returns the count of cases in the support queue and the date/time of the oldest case. Then it emails me the stats.

It works fine when I run from the query window, but when I run as a step in the job, the @body1 assignment is lost and I have no body in my email. Do you have any ideas about why the job appears to lose the variable assignment?

declare @CasesInSupportQueueCount varchar(10)
declare @OldestCaseInSupportQueue DATETIME
declare @body1 varchar(100)
declare @CRLF char(2)

SET @CasesInSupportQueueCount = (SELECT COUNT (qi.queueitemid) AS CasesInSupportQueueCount
FROM FilteredQueueItem as qi
JOIN FilteredQueue as q
ON qi.queueid = q.queueid
WHERE q.Name = ‘Support’ AND qi.objecttypecodename = ‘Case’)

SET @OldestCaseInSupportQueue = (SELECT MIN (qi.createdon)
FROM FilteredQueueItem as qi
JOIN FilteredQueue as q
ON qi.queueid = q.queueid
WHERE q.Name = ‘Support’ AND qi.objecttypecodename = ‘Case’)

SET @CRLF = CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)
SET @body1 = ‘Queue Statistics: ‘ + @CRLF +
‘Queue Count: ‘ + @CasesInSupportQueueCount + @CRLF +
‘Earliest in Queue: ‘ + CAST(@OldestCaseInSupportQueue AS varchar(30))

exec msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@recipients = ‘Email@email.com’,
@subject = ‘CRM QUEUE STATISTICS’ ,
@body = @body1,
@body_format = ‘TEXT’,
@profile_name = ‘Admin’

RESULTS WHEN SCRIPT IS EXECUTED FROM QUERY ANALYZER WINDOW:

Queue Statistics:
Queue Count: 7
Earliest in Queue: Otc 9 2008 1:59PM

RESULTS WHEN RUN AS JOB. (There is only one step in my job.)
Email sent but no body is display

IF I CHANGE
@body = @body1,
TO
@body = ‘just a test’,
On the email I get:

Just a test

Thanks

My guess is, that you are not allowed to relay on the (SMTP) server you are using. Make sure the SQL servers IP address is allowed to relay on the SMTP/mail server - og use Basic Authentication with a username/password.

Best regards

Jakob H. Heidelberg
MVP:Enterprise Security

am using the sql service acoutn.

how do i knwo, wthether my account is having mailbox or not or do we need mailbox user account.

Regards
Srinivas

By default we will use port 25 to configure database mail, which is usually blocked by windows firewall for security reason,

try the following.
1. Disable firewall and test if databasemail sends email.
2. Make an exception in the windows firewall.

Or this also happens when you use wrong port numbers,

Just as an example use these values when setting up a database mail feature: You need to have a gmail account, which can be created free if you go to gmail.com, you can send email using gmail service free of cost :) So you can try this example and it works perfect.

In database mail, first create profile, and when you create an account, use these values.

Give Account name: SQL Server Alerts System
Description: XYZ

Outgoing mail Server ( SMTP)

email id: youremailid#gmail.com ( should have gmail.com)
Display Name: SQL Server
Reply email: can leave blank
Server name: smtp.gmail.com ( this is really important)
port no: 587 ( on many website this is given as 465 which is wrong, use 587 )
Check : This server requires a secure connection
Check Basic Authentication
username: youremailid@gmail.com ( should have gmail.com)
password: ( top secret , dont display ) … ;)
confirm password: confirm your password

click next and also you need to make it default public profile.

After you do this, you also have to change SQL Server Agent properties, in Properties click alerts system and then select database mail.
MOST IMRORTANT when you make changes, to SQL SERVER AGENT properties, restart only SQL SERVER AGENT.

right click SQL Server Agent and click restart, and then test your database mail.

to test, right click database mail and click send test mail… VERY IMPORTANT ( Select right profile/account from drop down list), put any email id and click send test email. click ok.

Right click database mail, select view database mail logs keep refreshing … to see if any error message had occured. mean while look in your inbox if you recieved your email.

In few days I will take screen shots on how to configure database mail, taking a live example.

All with GUI’s no scripts :)

Hope this helps.
Imran.