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/master/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.yaml

Inputs

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/v1alpha1
kind: TaskRun
metadata:
  name: mail-taskrun
spec:
  inputs:
    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