Sending e-mail notification when job fails doesn't work

Question

1. I prepared scripts for sysadmin, for creating and configuring database mail profile, account and operator. He run the script, so I created temporary job, which fails. Then I set e-mail notification when the job fails. I run the Job, but no e-mail has been sent. Then I tried to run msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail procedure, using the same operator and I received the e-mail. What can be the reason of not sending e-mail when the job fails? Which procedure is being run in case of using e-mail notification when the job fails - is it different than sp_send_dbmail?

2. The other thing is that in database mail log no there is no information about sending e-mails status (it is empty) - maybe I have no permissions to see the log?

3. I set the profile as public, running dbo.sysmail_add_principalprofile_sp procedure, but when I try to send the e-mail running msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail a logged as dbowner I get an error: The EXECUTE permission was denied.. Why it only works when I am logged as my user?

I'm using SQL Server 2008.

Here is a T-SQL code, that I passed to sysadmin for creating and configuring database mail.

-- Create a Database Mail account

EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_account_sp
    @account_name = 'Mail Account',
    @description = 'Mail account for administrative e-mail.',
    @email_address = '[email protected]',
    @display_name = 'Job failure notification',
    @mailserver_name = 'xx.xx.xxx' ,
    @username = 'aaa',
    @password = 'xxx'

-- Create a Database Mail profile


 EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_profile_sp
    @profile_name = 'Database Mail Profile',
    @description = 'Profile used for job failure notifications.' ;

-- Add the account to the profile


EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_profileaccount_sp
    @profile_name = 'Database Mail Profile',
    @account_name = 'Mail Account',
    @sequence_number =1 ;

-- Enable Mail profile in SQL Agent


EXEC master.dbo.xp_instance_regwrite 
      N'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', 
      N'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\SQLServerAgent', 
      N'DatabaseMailProfile', 
      N'REG_SZ', 
      N'Database Mail Profile'
GO

-- Create new operator


EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_operator @name=N'SQL Job Failure', 
            @enabled=1, 
            @weekday_pager_start_time=90000, 
            @weekday_pager_end_time=180000, 
            @saturday_pager_start_time=90000, 
            @saturday_pager_end_time=180000, 
            @sunday_pager_start_time=90000, 
            @sunday_pager_end_time=180000, 
            @pager_days=0, 
            @email_address=N'[email protected]', 
            @category_name=N'[Uncategorized]'
GO

-- Setting profile as public

EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_principalprofile_sp
    @profile_name = 'Database Mail Profile',
    @principal_name = 'public',
    @is_default = 0 ;

Answer 1

I think you have to restart SQL Agent after executing those scripts. Check

• what is set in the job notification page - email checkbox must be checked and the operator must be defined
• Right click on Sql Agent -> Properties - Alert Settings - email settings must be provided

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