community.general.mail – Sends failure events via email

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2).

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/2.10/collections/community/general/mail_callback.html