The most likely reason is that your profile has not been configured, or you are using an incorrect name under the @profile_name parameter. To determine your profile settings, use this query:SELECT [profile_id] ,[name] ,[description] ,[last_mod_datetime] ,[last_mod_user] FROM [msdb].[dbo].[sysmail_profile] If after you have checked the results of this query and you are using the correct profile name, check how you are passing the parameter values.Don't do this:exec msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @subject, ......