catalog/mail

Send a message via SMTP server

This task sends a simple email to receivers via SMTP server

Install the Task and create a secret

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tektoncd/catalog/v1beta1/mail/sendmail.yaml

Create a secret that has the SMTP server information

• url: The IP address of the SMTP server

• port: The port number of the SMTP server

• user: User name for the SMTP server

• password: Password for the SMTP server

• tls: The tls enabled or not ("True" or "False")

Example server-secret.yaml

kind: Secret
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: server-secret
stringData:
  url: "smtp.server.com"
  port: "25"
  user: "userid"
  password: "password"
  tls: "False"

Example kubectl command

kubectl apply -f server-secret.yam

Parameters

• server: The name of the secret that has the SMTP server information

• subject: Email subject (plain text)

• body: Email body (plain text)

• sender: Email sender email address

• recipients: Email recipients email addresses (space delimited)

Usage

This TaskRun runs the Task to send an email to the receivers via the SMTP server.

apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: TaskRun
metadata:
  name: mail-taskrun
spec:
  params:
  - name: server
    value: server-secret
  - name: subject
    value: Hi, again!
  - name: body
    value: "Tekton email"
  - name: sender
    value: "<me@myserver.com>"
  - name: recipients
    value: "<him@hisserver.com> <her@herserver.com>"
  taskRef:
    name: sendmail