community.general.mail callback – Sends failure events via email

Note

This callback plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.8).

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. You need further requirements to be able to use this callback plugin, see Requirements for details.

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

Callback plugin

This plugin is a notification callback. It sends information for a playbook run to other applications, services, or systems. See Callback plugins for more information on callback plugins.

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

Comments

bcc

list / elements=string

BCC’d recipients.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_mail]
bcc = VALUE

cc

list / elements=string

CC’d recipients.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_mail]
cc = VALUE

message_id_domain

string

added in community.general 8.2.0

The domain name to use for the Message-ID header.

The default is the hostname of the control node.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_mail]
message_id_domain = VALUE

mta

string

Mail Transfer Agent, server that accepts SMTP.

Default: "localhost"

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_mail]
smtphost = localhost

  • Environment variable: SMTPHOST

mtaport

integer

Mail Transfer Agent Port.

Port at which server SMTP.

Default: 25

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_mail]
smtpport = 25

sender

string / required

Mail sender.

This is required since community.general 6.0.0.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_mail]
sender = VALUE

to

list / elements=string

Mail recipient.

Default: ["root"]

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_mail]
to = root

Authors

  • Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.