Troubleshooting Database Mail

Database Mail is designed to help database administrators quickly isolate and correct problems. This section describes solutions for common problems.

In This Section

Troubleshooting Database Mail: General steps
Troubleshooting Database Mail: Sending Test E-Mail
Troubleshooting Database Mail: Could not find stored procedure 'sp_send_dbmail'
Troubleshooting Database Mail: Profile not valid
Troubleshooting Database Mail: Permission denied on sp_send_dbmail
Troubleshooting Database Mail: Mail queued, not delivered
Troubleshooting Database Mail: Mail queued, no entries in sysmail_event_log or Windows Application Event Log
Troubleshooting Database Mail: Send mail from remote server while troubleshooting local server

See Also

Tasks

How to: Activate Service Broker Message Delivery in Databases (Transact-SQL)

How to: Create a SQL Server Agent Job to Archive Database Mail Messages and Event Logs

Reference

Database Mail Views (Transact-SQL)

Concepts

Database Mail Architecture

Last updated on 2010-10-01