How do I increase the maximum allowed attachment size for email sent using msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail in Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008

Question

Symptom: Sending an attachment using msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail results in the following error:

File attachment or query results size exceeds allowable value of 100000

Answer 1

To make it with T-SQL you can use one of Database Mail system stored procedures which is used to change configuration settings for Database Mail - sysmail_configure_sp.

MaxFileSize parameter is used to specify the maximum size of an attachment in bytes. So you can change this value to 10 million bytes with the following line of code:

EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_configure_sp 'MaxFileSize', '10000000';