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About

This howto shows you how to create a smtp connection to a SMTP system

Attributes

An oracle connection supports :

Example

Here are the attributes of the howto connection 

comment: HowTo Smtp Connection
from: [email protected]
to: [email protected]
uri: smtp://localhost:1025

How to create

You can create an Smtp connection:

Secret

In this howto, the password is expected to be stored in the TABUL_MY_SMTP_PASSWORD OS environment variable but there is more way to provide secrets.

To know how to pass and handle secrets, read more at Secret Value

Configuration Vault

In a Configuration Vault, to define a smtp connection with the name mySmtp, you could write: 

connections:
  mySmtp:
    uri: smtp://localhost:587
    user: user
    password: ${TABUL_MY_SMTP_PASSWORD}
    to: Big Foo <[email protected]>, Big Bar <[email protected]>
    from: The Tabulify <[email protected]>
    tls: true
    auth: true

Tabul

With the tabul add command of the connection module, adding a smtp connection with the name smtpConnectionName: 

tabul connection add "smtpConnectionName" "smtp://localhost:587" \
    --user login \
    --password '${TABUL_MY_SMTP_PASSWORD}' \
    --attribute "[email protected]"