Ansible attach in mail module doesnt work

[Rakesh Parida]

I have a code as below and i have my html files present in /tmp/sanity/ . 

but i am getting error as "Failed to send mail: can't attach file" i get file not found

 - name: list html files

     run_once: true

     local_action: shell find /tmp/sanity/ -type f -regex ".*.html" | tr -s '\n' ' ' | xargs | sort

     register: list_html_files

   - debug: msg="{{ list_html_files }}"

   - name: generate final email body

     run_once: true

     local_action: shell for i in `find /tmp/sanity/ -type f -regex ".*email.*.txt" | sort`; do cat $i ;done

     register: email_body

   - debug: msg="{{email_body}}"

   - name: email results

     become: true

     ignore_errors: true

     run_once: true

     mail:

        host: "{{smtp_host}}"

        port: 25

        subject: "raka"

        body: '{{ email_body.stdout }}'

        from: xxxxxxx

        to: "{{ email | default('xxxxxx') }}"

        attach:

           -  '{{ list_html_files.stdout_lines[0] }}'

        charset: utf8

     delegate_to: localhost

[Dick Visser]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 12:11, Rakesh Parida <rakeshp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a code as below and i have my html files present in /tmp/sanity/ .
> but i am getting error as "Failed to send mail: can't attach file" i get file not found

Well that's pretty clear: the file is not found.
Debug what is in list_html_files.stdout_lines[0] and adjust that.
Without any further information it's hard to tell.

On a related note, instead of fragile shell find/tr/xargs/sort , I
would strongly suggest to use the 'find' module.
That will at least return a standard data structure (which is easier
to offer help with).


Dick

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[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Additionally, you can use `fileglob` - https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/lookup/fileglob.html for getting desired files from given directory structure.

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Abhijeet Kasurde

[Rakesh Parida]

Hi Dick/Abhijit,

The problem is not searching the file in the location. the problem is "attach" inside  mail module doesn't recognize the variable reference(it takes hard coded path).I dont want to  hard code path inside attach. I want to use the variable reference inside attach module.

In the debug of "list_html_files" below it clearly shows that the html files are present. i am using ansible.2.7.5 

Pls suggest how can i achieve this.

ok: [10.253.173.111] => {

    "msg": {

        "changed": true, 

        "cmd": "find /tmp/sanity_RIC1/ -type f -regex \".*.html\" | tr -s '\\n' ' ' | xargs | sort", 

        "delta": "0:00:00.006235", 

        "end": "2019-09-05 04:03:01.195198", 

        "failed": false, 

        "rc": 0, 

        "start": "2019-09-05 04:03:01.188963", 

        "stderr": "", 

        "stderr_lines": [], 

        "stdout": "/tmp/sanity_RIC1/sanity_RIC1IC01_20190905-040234.html /tmp/sanity_RIC1/sanity_RIC1IC02_20190905-040247.html", 

        "stdout_lines": [

            "/tmp/sanity_RIC1/sanity_RIC1IC01_20190905-040234.html /tmp/sanity_RIC1/sanity_RIC1IC02_20190905-040247.html"

        ]

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[Dick Visser]

Hi

You deliberately replaced newlines with spaces, so now your creative
find/tr/xargs/sort command yields only one (1) line.
Hence the attach parameter will see one line that isn't a file, and fail.
I will repeat my previous advice: drop the shell and use the find module.
The documentation is here:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/find_module.html

That will give you exactly what you want.

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[Rakesh Parida]

Hi Dick,

Thanks for the Advice. It works like charm.

I modified the code as below and it works as desired. Again Many thanks for your valuable Suggestion

- name: list html files

     delegate_to: localhost

     find:

       paths: /tmp/sanity

       patterns: '*.html'

     run_once: true

     register: list_html_files

   - debug: msg="{{list_html_files}}"

   

   - name: email results

     ignore_errors: true

     run_once: true

     mail:

        host: "{{smtp_host}}"

        port: 25

        subject: "{{ inventory_file.split('/')[-1] }} "

        body: Test

        from: xxxx

        to: "yyy"

        attach: "{{ item.path }}"

        charset: utf8

     delegate_to: localhost

     with_items: "{{ list_html_files.files }}"