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How do I create a SQL Mail profile?
To setup Database Mail, connect to your server and expand the Management node of the tree and then right click on “Database Mail”. Then select “Configure Database Mail’ and you will get the following welcome screen and the click “Next”.
What is SQL database mail profile?
Configuring SQL Server Agent Database Mail The mail profile is an ordered collection of mail accounts that provides an abstraction layer between the applications calling database mail and the actual mail accounts. A mail profile is defined in terms of security as a public or private profile.
Where can I find SQL Server profile name?
When a profile name or profile id is specified, sysmail_help_profile_sp returns information about that profile. Otherwise, sysmail_help_profile_sp returns information about every profile in the SQL Server instance. The stored procedure sysmail_help_profile_sp is in the msdb database and is owned by the dbo schema.
How do I find my existing mail profile?
You should now be on the Manage Profile and Accounts step, select View, change, or delete an existing account and click next. You should be able to view the different accounts and their corresponding smtp server settings. You can also use the following system functions. EXEC msdb.
How can I check DBMail status in SQL?
Using Transact-SQL
- Select from the sysmail_allitems table, specifying the messages of interest by mailitem_id or sent_status.
- To check the status returned from the external program for the e-mail messages, join sysmail_allitems to sysmail_event_log view on the mailitem_id column, as shown in the following section.
How do I check email status in database?
The Database Mail external program logs activity and displays the log through the Windows Application Event Log and the sysmail_event_log view in the msdb database. To check the status of an e-mail message, run a query against this view.
How to select the Mail profile in a SQL Server?
In configuring SQL Agent itself through the properties window you will configure the Alert System . The two arrows point to where a database mail profile can be selected. In these two instances the profile you select is basically telling SQL Agent this is your SMTP configuration and who you are going to send the emails “as”, or the “FROM” field.
How to send email to SQL Server Agent?
After completing configuration of Database Mail using the Wizard provided in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you may notice that while emails can be sent using the stored procedure sp_send_dbmail from SSMS, SQL Server Agent is unable to send emails on the completion of background jobs or to operators as configured in alerts.
When to use a profile in SQL Agent?
In the context of SQL Agent, when a profile is private, the SQL Agent service account must be granted privileges to use the profile. When a profile is NOT specified as the default profile, the caller must specify the profile name when executing sp_send_dbmail.
Why is the Mail profile not enabled in SQL Server?
The most likely cause of this problem is that the Mail Profile has not been enabled in the SQL Server Agent properties. This articles shows how to get this done. There are two key objects you setup when configuring Database Mail – the Mail Profile and the Mail Account.