How To Get A Comprehensive List of all E-Mail Enabled Libraries in SharePoint

I recently completed a multi-farm consolidation and upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 for a customer, collapsing three farms into one. The approach was to create a new farm, and to individually do dbattach upgrades of each of the 2007 databases into separate SharePoint applications. Everything went well, including Reporting Services subscriptions, but we ran into a problem with incoming email.

The problem is that while all of the incoming email settings for a library are properly migrated when doing a dbattach upgrade, all of the aliases are stored in the Farm Database (in the EmailEnabledLists table, if you’re interested in looking), and it remains empty. The resultant effect is that you inspect the library properties, and all looks good, and email is properly being delivered to the drop folder. Unfortunately, the incoming email service timer job is looking for emails that correspond to the entries in the EMailEnabledLists table, and there are none.

The solution is to simply turn off incoming email for the affected lists, and then turn it back on. A bit cumbersome maybe, but it does work. However, in our case, our customer had over 100 libraries and wasn’t sure where they all were. A bit of hunting around found a couple of ways to get a list of email enabled libraries through code (here and here).

However, I don’t like writing code if I don’t have to, and decided to have a look in the content databases. Don’t forget the first rule of playing around in the SharePoint content databases, which is don’t. However, reading from them isn’t so bad, and ultimately solves our problem. Enough information is in fact in there to construct a simple query:

SELECT
     Webs.FullUrl As LibraryURL,
     AllLists.tp_Title As LibraryTitle,
     AllLists.tp_EmailAlias As emailAlias
FROM
     AllLists
INNER JOIN
     webs on AllLists.tp_WebID = Webs.Id
WHERE
    AllLists.tp_EmailAlias IS NOT NULL