Question

In my stored procedure, I send emails with sp_send_email. My stored procedure will be run in different environments; some will have emailing enabled, some won’t.

If I run sp_send_email without it being enabled, I (quite rightly) get this error message

SQL Server blocked access to procedure ‘dbo.sp_send_dbmail’ of component ‘Database Mail XPs’ because this component is turned off as part of the security configuration for this server.

I want to check whether emailing is enabled first, so I can avoid the error by doing the following:

IF @is_enabled
BEGIN
    EXEC sp_send_email ...
END

How do I correctly set @is_enabled?

Answer 1

You can query sys.configurations

IF EXISTS (SELECT *
       FROM sys.configurations
       WHERE name = 'Database Mail XPs' AND value_in_use = 1)
    PRINT 'enabled'
ELSE
    PRINT 'no luck'

The downside is that it may not be visible to non-sysadmin users because of “MetaData Visibility”