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Version: v4.24

save_email

Saves bytes through an SMTP server.

save_email recipient:str, [endpoint:str, from=str, subject=str, username=str,
      password=str, authzid=str, authorization=str,
      skip_peer_verification=bool, skip_hostname_verification=bool,
      mime=bool, verbose=bool]

Description​

The save_email operator establishes a SMTP(S) connection to a mail server and sends bytes as email body.

recipient: str​

The recipient of the mail.

The expected format is either Name <user@example.org> with the email in angle brackets, or a plain email adress, such as user@example.org.

endpoint = str (optional)​

The endpoint of the mail server.

To choose between SMTP and SMTPS, provide a URL with with the corresponding scheme. For example, smtp://127.0.0.1:25 will establish an unencrypted connection, whereas smtps://127.0.0.1:25 an encrypted one. If you specify a server without a schema, the protocol defaults to SMTPS.

Defaults to smtp://localhost:25.

from = str (optional)​

The From header.

If you do not specify this parameter, an empty address is sent to the SMTP server which might cause the email to be rejected.

subject = str (optional)​

The Subject header.

username = str (optional)​

The username in an authenticated SMTP connection.

password = str (optional)​

The password in an authenticated SMTP connection.

authzid = str (optional)​

The authorization identity in an authenticated SMTP connection.

This option is only applicable to the PLAIN SASL authentication mechanism where it is optional. When not specified only the authentication identity (authcid) as specified by the username is sent to the server, along with the password. The server derives an authzid from the authcid when not provided, which it then uses internally. When the authzid is specified it can be used to access another user's inbox, that the user has been granted access to, or a shared mailbox.

authorization = str (optional)​

The authorization options for an authenticated SMTP connection.

This login option defines the preferred authentication mechanism, e.g., AUTH=PLAIN, AUTH=LOGIN, or AUTH=*.

skip_peer_verification = bool (optional)​

If to skip certificate verification.

By default, an SMTPS connection verifies the authenticity of the peer's certificate. During connection negotiation, the server sends a certificate indicating its identity. We verify whether the certificate is authentic, i.e., that you can trust that the server is who the certificate says it is.

If true, disables loading of the CA certificates and verification of the peer certificate.

skip_hostname_verification = bool (optional)​

If to ignore verification of the server name in the certificate.

When negotiating TLS and SSL connections, the server sends a certificate indicating its identity. By default, that certificate must indicate that the server is the server to which you meant to connect, or the connection fails. That is, the server has to have the same name in the certificate as is in the URL you operate against. We consider the server the intended one when the Common Name field or a Subject Alternate Name field in the certificate matches the hostname in the URL.

Setting this to true skips this check, but it makes the connection insecure.

Defaults to false.

mime = bool (optional)​

If to wrap the chunk into a MIME part.

The operator uses the metadata of the byte chunk for the Content-Type MIME header.

Defaults to false.

verbose = bool (optional)​

Enables verbose output on stderr.

This option is helpful for debugging on the command line.

Defaults to false.

Examples​

Send the Tenzir version string as CSV to user@example.org:

version
write_csv
save_email "user@example.org"

Send the email body as MIME part:

version
write_json
save_email "user@example.org", mime=true

This may result in the following email body:

--------------------------s89ecto6c12ILX7893YOEf
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

{
  "version": "4.10.4+ge0a060567b-dirty",
  "build": "ge0a060567b-dirty",
  "major": 4,
  "minor": 10,
  "patch": 4
}

--------------------------s89ecto6c12ILX7893YOEf--