SQL 2012 :: Using Database Mail To Send Emails Based On Certain Actions
Jun 12, 2014
I have been using database mail for quite a few years now. I started using it with SQL Server 2005 and then it worked fine. Then we went over to SQL 2012 and the problems started. At first I could not get any e-mails out and read a post by Microsoft that a patch needs to come out but not available yet. That was in 2012. Presumably the patch came out with windows updates and my DB Mail started working. Now, however, I have the problem that some e-mails do get sent but the majority failed.
I use this so that whenever a user captures certain data to update a person's status on the database then an automatic e-mail will be sent to that person to inform them of their status at this company.
I was tasked with witing a stored procedure to send out emails based on certain criteria. One of our developers decided to take care of the criteria in another process and pass variables for me to use. I am not quite sure how to go about this, but below is what I started with. I declared his variables, and then set up a couple of my own for the email subject line and text.
create PROCEDURE [dbo].[SendWelcomeEmails] AS BEGIN -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from -- interfering with SELECT statements. SET NOCOUNT ON;
[Code] ....
Do I need to use a cursor or can I just specify using if, then else? Also not sure where to SET the individual subject lines.
I am running RS 2012 installation and everything worked until few days ago. Now the subscriptions would not even run. When I configure new ones, after the time passes, there is not error message, not even a sign it ran.
We have a rather large query that takes time to run between each data-driven instance. Is there a way to only send out the first email after the last subscription has finished processing? Any advanced input on data-driven subscriptions .
I am trying to send out notifications when jobs complete (fail or succeed). I have database mail working fine on my DEV server, but I am having issues with it on my PROD server. I am currently having people look into if McAfee may be blocking it.
I am able to send out a test email from SSMS>Management>Database Mail, but when I set a Notification for a job, the job will complete and in the history, it will say "NOTE: Failed to notify 'User' via email."
I have created an Operator and set up Profiles and Accounts, just as I did on my DEV server.
I have created a job which executes a procedure which executes and creates logs of StartTime and EndTime and records affected. The last step of the job sends mails to recipients from the logs table. Though I get the info correctly I get all annoying dashes for 4-5 lines between each line of message. How to remove the dashes.
Below is the code i use to send mails.
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @profile_name='SQL Mail Service', @recipients='biscribbler@gmail.com', @copy_recipients='biscribbler@gmail.com', @subject='SOFT SCRUB Completed for LiveDB',
Kind of a newby sql question, but here goes:I have a sql 2005 database that I have a job that runs Sunday morning at 12:30 am. I set it up using SQL Svr Mgt Studio 2005. Under the Management directory I set up Database Mail to work with my local SMTP server. I can send a test email just fine.I then set myself up as an operator with my email address. (Under operators directory) I then went back to the properties of the job I set up, and under 'notification', chose e-mail operator (me) when Job Succeeds. The job runs, itt suceeds, but NO email!It flat out won't work. there are NO entries in teh( email) log for errors either. Anyone? TIA Dan OR is it better to script these jobs using xml? I don't have time to learn a new thing right now, just need it to work!
I have a job that emails out shipment notifications at the end of the day to our customers. The problem I have is I don't understand why the same email is sending out twice within a minute of each other when the job is only scheduled to run once. If I take the code out of the step and run it in management studio it only emails once. I attached the code for one customer for reference. We are running SQL 2008 on a VM sending to an exchange 2010 server.
DECLARE @tableHTML NVARCHAR(MAX) ; SET @tableHTML =N'<H1>XYZ Company ASN For ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GETDATE(), 101) + ' </H1>' + N'<table border="1">' + N'<tr><th>Vendor</th><th>Delivery Date</th>' + N'<th>Purchase Order Number</th><th>Item Number</th><th>Item Description</th>' + N'<th>Quantity Shipped</th><th>UOM</th><th>BOL Number</th>'
I have attempted to report out errors at the end of an ETL process by alerting supporting DBAs of errors using the SSIS "Send Mail Task". Task completes along with the sequenced packages, but does not mail anything out. No logic at this time for trigger, just success from the previous task triggering the task to send mail. I also get no errors in the output, and I get no output indicating the send mail task fired, but it does go "green". Do I have to enable database mail and have privileges?
Component Configuration:
SMTP Connection Manager - SMTP Server: arsocex02
Send Mail Editor -
From: messerj@arsocdev.bdev.lab.mil To: sanderss@arsocdev.bdev.lab.mil MessageSourceType: Direct Input Expression: MessageSource = "Package>>> " + @[System:ackageName] +" was executed at>>> " + (DT_WSTR, 40) @[System:tartTime] + " by user>>> " + @[System::UserName] + " on Machine>>> " + @[System::MachineName] + " Errors reported to ERRORS_COURSE_CLASS_STATUS_T: " + (DT_WSTR, 50) @[User::ErrorCourseClassStatus]
Here's the scoop, and I've seen several posts to this effect but none of the solutions have worked. Enabled database mail. confirmed profiles and can send test database mail from Query Window. I can also right click Database mail and send test emails. Configured valid operator using same email address for the test emails above. Enabled database mail profile under SQL Agent properties > Alert System.
From what I've seen, the test button is supposed to be greyed out, and it is. However alerts do not send emails operator.
i've got a brand new server and just installed SQL 2005.
when i try to send a test email, i get the following error message:
The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using Account 5 (2006-11-23T11:49:34). Exception Message: Could not connect to mail server. (No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it). )
I have checked all items from troubleshoot and eveything is ok...any help ?
I have two domains. forest domain abc which has the exchange infrastructure. forest domain xyz which does not have exchange. There is a two way trust set up.
I have set up database mail which sends internally but not externally on the xyz domain its uses mailrelay address to comunicate with exchange. The receive connector is set up correctly on exchange on domain abc as I have managed to send email from a sql server to external contact in the abc domain.
The IP addresses are correct on the receive connector.
The problem is I am unable to send to an external contact from the sql server in the xyz domain. Not sure if this an exchange issue or database mail.
The script is working fine if i manually provided file path to @file_attachments. it is showing error i passes the variable @Loc3 to @file_attachments. Below is the error if i passes the variable to @file_attachments parameter.
(1 row(s) affected) (1 row(s) affected) (1 row(s) affected) Msg 22051, Level 16, State 1, Line 0 Attachment file 'E:DatabaseTannaFinanceReportDetail_Reimbursement_1_15_Aug2015.csv is invalid.
I have a set of results based on a query that displays a learner, their workplace assessor and both their email addresses.
I want to send a standard request email (using db_mail) to each learner's email address which specifies who their individual assessor is and their current employer. One per learner. I then want to email each assessor and in this email detail their learners (and their employer details) that I have emailed the request too.
Is there any automated script available to - "Monitor Database Growth and if any DB is grown by 20%, sending mail alerts"? If not, what is the approach to write the T SQL script ?
Dear all, I have switched off the firewall settings on my system and as suggested im entering the minimal information and data to send the mail. but still the Mail Task is failing.. plz suggest.
Hopefully someone out there will have an idea as this is driving me nuts.
I've setup a task to email on success/failure and keep receiving the following message when executed:
Progress: The SendMail task is initiated. - 0 percent complete [Send Mail Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message: "Failure sending mail.". Progress: The SendMail task is completed. - 100 percent complete Task Send Mail Task failed
When I configure Outlook Express on the same machine with the same settings it works.
On the SMTP Connection Manager I have left the default name, tested with both an IP address and Server Name, and no authentication or SSL.
On the Send Mail Task, it uses the above connection. The To: , From: , Subject fields are populated. Message SourceType is DirectInput, MessageSource is Test, Priority is Normal and no attachments or expressions etc.
Nothing useful is logged in the Event Viewer even with full logging turned on.
I have the following code on a form: <asp:SqlDataSource ID="building_a" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:vol1ConnectionString4 %>" SelectCommand="SELECT [E_MAIL] FROM [Sheet4$] WHERE ([BUILDING] LIKE '%' + @BUILDING+ '%')" OnSelecting="building_a_Selecting"> <SelectParameters> <asp:Parameter DefaultValue="a" Name="BUILDING" Type="String" /> </SelectParameters> </asp:SqlDataSource> <asp:SqlDataSource ID="building_b" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:vol1ConnectionString4 %>" SelectCommand="SELECT [E_MAIL] FROM [Sheet4$] WHERE ([BUILDING] LIKE '%' + @BUILDING+ '%')" OnSelecting="building_b_Selecting"> <SelectParameters> <asp:Parameter DefaultValue="b" Name="BUILDING" Type="String" /> </SelectParameters></asp:SqlDataSource> <asp:TextBox ID="subj" runat="server" Width="500px">Subject</asp:TextBox><br /><br /> <asp:TextBox ID="messg" runat="server" Rows="20" TextMode="MultiLine" Width="500px">Message</asp:TextBox><br /><br /> <asp:Button ID="bldga" runat="server" Text="Building A" OnClick="Button1_Click" /><br /><br /><asp:Button ID="bldgb" runat="server" Text="Building B" OnClick="Button2_Click" /><br /><br /> <asp:Label ID="resultLabel1" runat="server" ForeColor="red"></asp:Label> And I have the following code behind:protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient(); MailMessage message = new MailMessage(); try {MailAddress fromAddress = new MailAddress("me@mydomain.com", "My Name");MailAddress toAddress = new MailAddress("them@theirdomain.com"); message.From = fromAddress; message.To.Add(toAddress); message.Subject = subj.Text;message.IsBodyHtml = false; message.Body = messg.Text;smtpClient.Host = "myhost"; smtpClient.Send(message);resultLabel1.Text = "Email sent!"; }catch {resultLabel1.Text = "Send failure"; } } The queries get e-mail addresses from a SQL database for all people who work in a particular building. The buttons will send an email if I give a To address. How do I write the code so that clicking on the "Building A" button will send the e-mail to the addresses from the query results individually? Any ideas?
Hello, The Database Mail feature is already enabled on the server, also I have a mail account on the other server. The problem I faced is that I need to send mail from my SQL Server using a created email account on the other server. How should I configure my email to do that ? Should I use a sysmail_add_account procedure to enable account, also set profile and profile account ? Does this way creates server mail account that is binded with other email account? The mail should be sent from my SQL Server. Thank You.
I keep getting a generic "Error Sending Mail" error. For testing purposes I am just trying to send using my own email account. What goes in the SMTP Server box in the connection manager? I have tried:
A - the exchange server address (SOMETHING.us.company.com) B - The SMTP properties I see when I look at the properties of my email address: (my.name@abcd.efgh.company.com) C - Just the end portion of the SMTP properties: (abcd.efgh.company.com) D - My email address (my.name@company.com)
I don't know what to enter, or what is giving me such a generic error message.
I know you can specify additional recipients in the To column by sepperating them with a semicolon. But whats the easiest way to send to several users, when the email address must be retrieved from a table with a query like this:
select email from problem_subscribers
where project = 'project1'
and statusmail = 'OnError'
So when the eventhandler gets an OnError i want the mail task to be sent to each problemsubscriber.
NOT ABLE TO SEND TEST MAIL FROM DB MAIL...The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. . Exception Message: Cannot send mails to mail server. (Failure sending mail.).Exception Message: Cannot send mails to mail server. (Failure sending mail.).
