Thanks for your help.

My login is sysadmin, so unless I have done something goofy I should be OK on that.

is_broker_enable = 1 (in MSDB)

check members of the DatabaseMailUserRole

DbRole MemberName MemberSID

-------------------- --------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------

DatabaseMailUserRole Certificate_UseDBMail_Login 0x010600000000000901000000F605E188C86F4F59B7AF1E2856BCC3A33C3B7AF7

I don't know how to interpret this data.

lists information about associations between Database Mail profiles and database principals

principal_id principal_name profile_id profile_name is_default

------------ -------------- ----------- ------------ ----------

2 guest 1 Default 1

check status of Database Mail

[font="Courier New"]SQL Server blocked access to procedure 'dbo.sysmail_help_status_sp' of component 'Database Mail XPs' because this component is turned off as part of the security configuration for this server. A system administrator can enable the use of 'Database Mail XPs' by using sp_configure. For more information about enabling 'Database Mail XPs', see "Surface Area Configuration" in SQL Server Books Online.[/font]

EXECUTE dbo.sysmail_start_sp --- start Database Mail in a mail host database

Same error message

EXEC msdb.dbo.sysmail_help_queue_sp @queue_type = 'mail' -- list the state of the mail or status queues

queue_type length state last_empty_rowset_time last_activated_time

---------- ------ -------- ----------------------- -----------------------

mail 0 INACTIVE 2013-11-24 22:41:15.300 2013-11-24 22:41:15.300

Time here now (GetDate() ) is 2013-11-25 09:51:48.113. Colleague of mine rebooted the server last night, and re-tested DB Mail then, so that time probably reflects that action

-- show a list of all mail-items send past week

(0 row(s) affected) - No results displayed