Intermittent SQLSERVERAGENT error "unable to send job completion..

A batch job that executes once daily is configured to send job completion
notification on success or failure. Usually it works. Twice in the past
week it didn't, and this message is in the Application Log:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: SQLSERVERAGENT
Event Category: Job Engine
Event ID: 210
Date: 8/8/2005
Time: 11:10:07 PM
User: N/A
Computer: xxxxxxx (name withheld to protect the guilty)
Description:Unable to send job completion notification email to operator
'DBA - SQLExec' for job 'Maintenance and backup'.
Both before and after the occurence of the problem, I am able to
successfully send mail with a 'test' of the operator 'DBA - SQLExec'.
Our environment is as follows:
SQL Server 2000 SP3a on Windows 2000 Server.
Outlook 2000 on the SQL Server box.
WAN; and the SQL box is geographically remote from the Exchange server.
MS Exchange email system (newly implemented).
Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.Hi,
Thanks for your post.
From your descriptions, I understood your SQLAgent intermittently failed to
report the error message that unable to send job completion notification
email to operator 'DBA - SQLExec' for job. If I have misunderstood your
concern, please feel free to point it out.
I have noticed that this issue will not happen all the time and and based
on my knowledge it is most possible that the Exchange server is unavailable
at that time of name resolution the above error will occur. Check logs of
exchange server to go further for this loss of connectivity between the
MAPI client and Exchange server
Thank you for your patience and cooperation. If you have any questions or
concerns, don't hesitate to let me know. We are always here to be of
assistance!
Sincerely yours,
Michael Cheng
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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