I have the following trigger, which causes an error when it runs:

CREATE TRIGGER ...
ON ...
FOR INSERT, UPDATE
AS   

IF UPDATE(STATUS)
BEGIN

    DECLARE @newPrice VARCHAR(50)
    DECLARE @FILENAME VARCHAR(50)
    DECLARE @server VARCHAR(50)
    DECLARE @provider VARCHAR(50)
    DECLARE @datasrc VARCHAR(50)
    DECLARE @location VARCHAR(50)
    DECLARE @provstr VARCHAR(50)
    DECLARE @catalog VARCHAR(50)
    DECLARE @DBNAME VARCHAR(50)

    SET @server=xx
    SET @provider=xx
    SET @datasrc=xx
    SET @provstr='DRIVER={SQL Server};SERVER=xxxxxxxx;UID=xx;PWD=xx;'
    SET @DBNAME='[xx]'

    SET @newPrice = (SELECT STATUS FROM Inserted)
    SET @FILENAME = (SELECT INPUT_XML_FILE_NAME FROM Inserted)

    IF @newPrice = 'FAIL'     
    BEGIN
        EXEC master.dbo.sp_addlinkedserver
            @server, '', @provider, @datasrc, @provstr

        EXEC master.dbo.sp_addlinkedsrvlogin @server, 'true'

        INSERT INTO [@server].[@DBNAME].[dbo].[maildetails]
        (
            'to', 'cc', 'from', 'subject', 'body', 'status',
            'Attachment', 'APPLICATION', 'ID', 'Timestamp', 'AttachmentName'
        )
        VALUES
        (
            'P23741', '', '', 'XMLFAILED', @FILENAME, '4',
            '', '8', '', GETDATE(), ''
        )

        EXEC sp_dropserver @server
    END

END

The error is:

Msg 15002, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_MSaddserver_internal, Line 28 The procedure 'sys.sp_addlinkedserver' cannot be executed within a transaction. Msg 15002, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_addlinkedsrvlogin, Line 17 The procedure 'sys.sp_addlinkedsrvlogin' cannot be executed within a transaction. Msg 15002, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_dropserver, Line 12 The procedure 'sys.sp_dropserver' cannot be executed within a transaction.

How can I prevent this error from occurring?