Revision as of 06:47, 3 October 2013

Basic Remedy

Usually this is due to unusual characters in an email. If outgoing mail ever stops, here is the immediate remedy:

1. Go to Administration > System Settings > Email Server Settings.

2. Click the View Pending Outgoing Emails link.

3. A list of outgoing emails will appear:

4. Here you can see that the earliest email could not be sent. Click the Delete button for that email and confirm. The rest of the emails should now be sent. If not, you can delete the now-earliest. Don't delete more than three emails, as this could indicate a different issue, most likely a misconfiguration of email settings.

Bulk Delete

If the list is full of failed emails, you can quickly eliminate all email with this SQL query:

   TRUNCATE TABLE [LaytonServiceDesk].[dbo].[mail]

Many Failures

If you are getting many outgoing failures, check the email settings.

All Mail in Pending Status

If all or most of the outgoing emails have the status Pending, then most likely the LaytonServiceDesk service is not running, and if it's not running, you will probably find that you can't start it. If you get an error message related to a startup timeout, this remedy should fix it.

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