Ansible can send mail from Macbook
zil...@gmail.com
$ ansible --version
ansible 2.9.13
config file = /Users/user/.ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/Users/user/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/ansible
python version = 3.8.5 (v3.8.5:580fbb018f, Jul 20 2020, 12:11:27) [Clang 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)]
# Mail the files
- name: Mail the zip file
mail:
host: smtp.gmail.com
port: 465 # 587 fails as well
secure: starttls # always fails as well
charset: utf-8
username: "{{ user }}"
password: "{{ pw }}"
to: "us...@company.com"
from: "nor...@noreply.com"
subject: "Private key and CSR files"
attach: "{{ archive_file }}"
body: "Ansible-generated private and CSR files for {{ common_name }}"
delegate_to: localhost
I'm very sure I'm passing the correct username and password. However I get this error when I run my playbook.
<localhost> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: user
<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~user && sleep 0'
<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /Users/user/.ansible/tmp `"&& mkdir "` echo /Users/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1599411608.7587368-75656-16246975542505 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1599411608.7587368-75656-16246975542505="` echo /Users/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1599411608.7587368-75656-16246975542505 `" ) && sleep 0'
Using module file /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/modules/notification/mail.py
<localhost> PUT /Users/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-75569bryuh8_h/tmp3plwd3_u TO /Users/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1599411608.7587368-75656-16246975542505/AnsiballZ_mail.py
<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'chmod u+x /Users/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1599411608.7587368-75656-16246975542505/ /Users/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1599411608.7587368-75656-16246975542505/AnsiballZ_mail.py && sleep 0'
<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python /Users/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1599411608.7587368-75656-16246975542505/AnsiballZ_mail.py && sleep 0'
<localhost> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'rm -f -r /Users/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1599411608.7587368-75656-16246975542505/ > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'
The full traceback is:
WARNING: The below traceback may *not* be related to the actual failure.
File "/var/folders/rh/bjfb4ltd1mj3_vcv8d82r5j00000gp/T/ansible_mail_payload_5Xv8cx/ansible_mail_payload.zip/ansible/modules/notification/mail.py", line 316, in main
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 623, in login
raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp)
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {
"changed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"attach": [
"/tmp/www.example.com.zip"
],
"bcc": [],
"body": "Ansible-generated private and CSR files for www.example.com",
"cc": [],
"charset": "utf-8",
"from": "nor...@noreply.com",
"headers": [],
"host": "smtp.gmail.com",
"password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
"port": 465,
"secure": "starttls",
"sender": "nor...@noreply.com",
"subject": "Private key and CSR files",
"subtype": "plain",
"timeout": 20,
"to": [
],
"username": "us...@company.com"
}
},
"rc": 1
}
MSG:
Authentication to smtp.gmail.com:465 failed, please check your username and/or password
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost : ok=4 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
What am I missing? I've googled to no avail.