Msg 22051 Database Mail Attachment file is invalid

Question

Hello,
I'm testing a trigger to output a text file and then attach it to an email in Database Mail. So far, I've gotten the correct text file to export to a TEMP folder, but when I try to attach it to database mail, I get the message below. I think it is a permissions
problem with the TEMP directory, but I've tried adding some permissions, but nothing seems to work. The profile name is TFRONT_DBMAIL and the account name is Albert using Basic Authentication for the SMTP server. I think you have to add the SQL Server User
Account or the Database Mail account to the permissions, but I can't seem to find the exact one to use. I have set up other triggers that use database mail that only send messages with no attachments and they work fine.
Any help appreciated!
Albert
Msg 22051, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
Attachment file "C:\TEMP\NTCDManifestInv135255.txt" is invalid.
Albert S

Answer 1

Hello, I moved the temp file here:
DECLARE
@PathVARCHAR(200)='C:\Users\MSSQLSERVER\Temp\'
SQL Server service account (MSSQLSERVER) has full access to that folder. Still getting this
message:
Msg 22051, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
Attachment file "C:\Users\MSSQLSERVER\Temp\NTCDManifestInv135255.txt" is invalid.
The file is created and it is in the Temp directory. It just won't attach. Thank you
for any help! Below is the full statement.
Albert
DECLARE @CustomerID varchar(10) = 'NTCD'
DECLARE @EmailBody varchar(1000)
DECLARE @CustomerName varchar(50)
DECLARE @InvoiceNo VARCHAR(6) = '135255'
DECLARE @ManifestName VARCHAR(11) = 'ManifestInv'
DECLARE @Extension VARCHAR(4) = '.txt'
DECLARE @FullName VARCHAR(100)
DECLARE @BCP VARCHAR(8000)
DECLARE @Path VARCHAR(200) = 'C:\Users\MSSQLSERVER\Temp\'
SET @FullName = char(34) + @Path + @CustomerID + @ManifestName + CAST(@InvoiceNo as VARCHAR) + @Extension + char(34)
SET @BCP = 'bcp "SELECT char(34)+ComposerAuthor+char(34), char(34)+Title+char(34), char(34)+(ISNULL([Place],char(32))+char(32)+char(58)+char(32) + [Publisher]+char(44)+char(32) + [Copyright])+char(34) AS PlacePubDate, char(36)+CAST([ExtPrice] AS varchar), char(34)+ScoreFormat+char(34) FROM tfront.dbo.tblCustInvItems INNER JOIN tfront.dbo.tblInventory on tfront.dbo.tblCustInvItems.InventoryID = tfront.dbo.tblInventory.ID WHERE InvoiceNo = ' + @InvoiceNo + '" queryout '+ @FullName + ' -T -c -t\t -S'
EXEC master..xp_cmdshell @BCP
SET @EmailBody = 'The Account ' + @CustomerID + ' was billed today.' + Char(13) + 'A text manifest was sent.'
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@profile_name = 'TFRONT_DBMail',
@recipients = '[email protected]',
@body = @EmailBody,
@subject = 'TFront Database Auto Email',
@file_attachments= @FullName;
Albert S