SharePoint 2019: 2010 Workflow Email Action intermittently not working

Question

I have a SharePoint 2010 workfow with the standard Email action that intermittently will throw an error in the workflow history 'The e-mail message cannot be sent. Make sure the outgoing e-mail settings for the server are configured correctly'.

A review of the ULS logs show a message (Category = E-mail) " #50043: The operation failed because an unexpected error occurred. (Result Code: 0x00000000)" and then a few entries later (Category = General) "Cannot complete this action. Please try again.0x80004005".

The farm is running SharePoint 2019.

The hardest thing about this issue is that it is random (as far as I can tell). The workflow works and sends email most of the time, but fails with the workflow history and ULS entries above from time to time.

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

Hi @Rob Roach ,

Whether this issue happens to all users？

1.Make sure that for sending emails via workflow that the user's login is entered (via workflow lookup) as type Display or Email.
2.Make sure that the user's profile information in UPS is complete. In particular, verify that the user has an email entered into his or her UPS profile.
3.If any changes to the user's profile information in UPS are made, followup with full crawls of both user profiles and My Sites content.

For more detials: The e-mail message cannot be sent. Make sure the outgoing e-mail settings for the server are configured correctly.

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