Sql 2005 sql mail setup

View or change system parameters Configure Database Mail system parameters such as the maximum file size for attachments. Use this page to create a new Database Mail account. Each account contains information for one e-mail server. A Database Mail account is only used for Database Mail. Database Mail can be sent using the credentials of the SQL Server Database Engine, using other credentials that you supply, or anonymously.

When using basic authentication, the user name and password in a Database Mail account are only used for authentication with the e-mail server. E-mail address Type the name of the e-mail address for the account. This is the e-mail address that e-mail is sent from.

Display name Type the name to show on e-mail messages sent from this account. The display name is optional. This is the name displayed on messages sent from this account. Reply e-mail Type the e-mail address that will be used for replies to e-mail messages sent from this account. The reply e-mail is optional. Typically this is in a format similar to smtp. For help with this, consult your mail administrator.

Most SMTP servers use port The user name is required if the SMTP server requires basic authentication. The password is required if the SMTP server requires basic authentication. Confirm password Type the password again to confirm the password. Use this option when the SMTP server does not require authentication. Delete Delete the selected account.

You must remove this account from associated profiles, or delete such profiles, before you delete the selected account. Description View or update the description of the account. The description is optional. E-mail address View or update the name of the e-mail address for the account.

Display name View or update the name to show on e-mail messages sent from this account. Reply e-mail View or update the e-mail address that will be used for replies to e-mail messages sent from this account.

Use this page to create a Database Mail profile. A Database Mail profile is a collection of Database Mail accounts. Profiles improve reliability in cases where an e-mail server becomes unreachable, by providing alternative Database Mail accounts.

At least one Database Mail account is required. For more information about setting the priority of Database Mail accounts in the profile, see Create a Database Mail Profile.

This order is determined by a value called the sequence number. Move Up lowers the sequence number and Move Down increases the sequence number. The sequence number determines the order in which Database Mail uses accounts in the profile.

For a new e-mail message, Database Mail starts with the account that has the lowest sequence number. Should that account fail, Database Mail uses the account with the next highest sequence number, and so on until either Database Mail sends the message successfully, or the account with the highest sequence number fails. If the account with the highest sequence number fails, the Database Mail pauses attempts to send the mail for the amount of time configured in the Database Mail AccountRetryDelay parameter, then starts the process of attempting to send the mail again, starting with the lowest sequence number.

Use the Database Mail AccountRetryAttempts parameter, to configure the number of times that the external mail process attempts to send the e-mail message using each account in the specified profile. Profile name Type the name for the new profile. The profile is created with this name. Do not use the name of an existing profile. Description Type a description for the profile. SMTP accounts Choose one or more accounts for the profile. The priority sets the order in which Database Mail uses the accounts.

Use this page to manage an existing Database Mail profile. The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated.

The server response was: 5. Learn more at. There is an article about Troubleshooting Database Mail that provides information for users to quickly isolate and correct common problems with Database Mail, but going through the documentation was not helpful in this case and it took a long time without success.

Sending Mail using Account 6 T Failure sending mail. The problem, in general, is not with the Database Mail itself and its functionality. This explains the missing Microsoft documentation. Those messages are usually authentication responses from SMTP servers that are required before allowing access to mail services. Another approach could be to setup an e-mail account used for sending outgoing notifications on another e-mail client like Microsoft Outlook.

Log onto your Gmail account at www. This will open an instruction webpage on how to set up IMAP. Skip the 1st step as we already checked and verified that IMAP is turned on. Fire up Outlook client to add the Gmail email account to it. Once Outlook is opened, click the File tab, and select Add Account :.

In the Add Account dialog, select the Manual setup or additional server types option and click the Next button:. Under User Information section, make sure to enter a valid e-mail address. The e-mail address entered here will be automatically set as User Name for the Logon Information once the Account Type is selected from the drop-down box.

Once finished, click the More Settings button on the right to configure additional settings before continuing further:. This will open the Internet e-mail settings dialog. Leave everything as it is under the General tab. Next, click the Outgoing Server tab, check the My outgoing server SMTP requires authentication check-box and select the Use same settings as my incoming mail server option:.

Move on to the Advanced tab. Once again, use the information from the table above to set server port numbers. Leave the rest as it is and click the OK button to confirm settings:. Click the Next button and this will pop-up two additional dialogs.

In the first dialog, Outlook will perform two tasks:. This step is crucial as this task previously failed for Database Mail. In the second dialog, Outlook will ask for the username and password. This was already configured, optionally check the Save this password in your password lint option if your Windows user account is password-protected, and no other person has access to it:.

Note : The credential dialog can pop-up more than one time. Just click the OK button each time, until the server stops asking for login information.

This usually happens when something is not configured right e. In this case, the first task failed and sending test e-mail message failed as well right afterward:. Some applications and devices use less secure sign-in technology, which makes their respective accounts more vulnerable and Gmail will block these sign-in requests.

Note: Database Mail is not active by default. If not then copy the following 3 files: 1. An Account holds information for only one e-mail server, such as the account name, e-mail address, reply-to e-mail address, server name or IP address, and some optional security settings.

Note: After performing above steps the mails were not getting sent. I was configuring DB mail from my client machine, even with the admin account. I was getting various errors like:. The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. Sending Mail using Account 19 T Exception Message: Could not connect to mail server. Database Mail — test is OK, but jobs do not notify. Thanks Tharindu Dhaneenja. Sending Mail using Account 3 T The requested address is not valid in its context I am having error, The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure.

Sending Mail using Account 4 T Exception Message: Cannot send mails to mail server. Service not available, closing transmission channel.

The server response was: Downstream server error. I followed the exact steps above within my SQL Express and Smtp service is running in windows server. Database Mail for Gmail server name : smtp.