Find Out Why an Email Failed to Send in SQL Server (T-SQL)

If you’re trying to send email using Database Mail in SQL Server, but it fails to send, you can check the sysmail_event_log view to see why it failed.

The sysmail_event_log view returns one row for each Windows or SQL Server message returned by the Database Mail system. By “message”, I don’t mean the actual mail message. I mean a message such as the error message that explains why the mail failed.

You can also use the sysmail_configure_sp stored procedure to determine what types of messages are logged.

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How to Remove a Database Mail Account from a Profile in SQL Server (T-SQL)

In SQL Server, you can use the sysmail_delete_profileaccount_sp stored procedure to remove a Database Mail account from a profile.

You can remove the account from a specific profile, or you can remove it from all profiles. You can also remove all accounts from a given profile.

The way it works is, you provide two arguments; the account name or its ID, and the profile name or its ID. If you omit the argument for the profile, the account is removed from all profiles. If you omit the argument for the account, then all accounts are removed from the profile.

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