community.general.mail – Sends failure events via email

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.mail.

Synopsis

  • This callback will report failures via email

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this callback.

  • whitelisting in configuration

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
bcc
string
ini entries:

[callback_mail]
bcc = None

BCC'd recipient
cc
string
ini entries:

[callback_mail]
cc = None

CC'd recipient
mta
string
Default:
"localhost"
ini entries:

[callback_mail]
smtphost = localhost

env:SMTPHOST
Mail Transfer Agent, server that accepts SMTP
mtaport
string
Default:
25
ini entries:

[callback_mail]
smtpport = 25

Mail Transfer Agent Port, port at which server SMTP
sender
string
ini entries:

[callback_mail]
sender = None

Mail sender
to
string
Default:
"root"
ini entries:

[callback_mail]
to = root

Mail recipient

Notes

Note

  • TODO: expand configuration options now that plugins can leverage Ansible’s configuration

Authors

  • Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/mail_callback.html