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<h2><a name="mail">Mail</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>A task to send SMTP email. This task can send mail using either plain
text, UU encoding, or MIME format mail, depending on what is available.
Attachments may be sent using nested
<a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">fileset</a> elements.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> This task may depend on external libraries
that are not included
in the Ant distribution. See <a href="../install.html#librarydependencies">
Library Dependencies</a> for more information.
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<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">from</td>
<td valign="top">Email address of sender.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Either a <code>from</code> attribute, or a <code><from></code>
element.</td>
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<td valign="top">tolist</td>
<td valign="top">Comma-separated list of recipients.</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle" rowspan="3">At least one of these, or the
equivalent elements.</td>
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<td valign="top">cclist</td>
<td valign="top">Comma-separated list of recipients to carbon copy</td>
</tr>
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<td valign="top">bcclist</td>
<td valign="top">Comma-separated list of recipients to carbon copy</td>
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<td valign="top">message</td>
<td valign="top">Message to send in the body of the email.</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle" rowspan="2">One of these or a
<code><message></code> element.</td>
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<td valign="top">messagefile</td>
<td valign="top">File to send as the body of the email. Property
values in the file will be expanded.</td>
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<td valign="top">messagemimetype</td>
<td valign="top">The content type of the message. The default is
<code>text/plain</code>.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">files</td>
<td valign="top">Files to send as attachments to the email. Separate multiple
file names using a comma. You can also use <code><fileset></code>
elements to specify files.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">failonerror</td>
<td valign="top">flag to indicate whether to halt the build on
any error. The default value is <code>true</code>.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No.</td>
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<td valign="top">includefilenames</td>
<td valign="top">Include filename(s) before file contents.
Valid only when the <code>plain</code> encoding is used. The default
value is <code>false</code>.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">mailhost</td>
<td valign="top">Host name of the SMTP server. The default value is
<code>localhost</code>.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">mailport</td>
<td valign="top">TCP port of the SMTP server. The default value is 25.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">encoding</td>
<td valign="top">Specifies the encoding to use for the content of the email.
Values are <code>mime</code>, <code>uu</code>, <code>plain</code>, or
<code>auto</code>. The default value is <code>auto</code>.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">subject</td>
<td valign="top">Email subject line.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
<h4>to / cc / bcc / from</h4>
<p>Adds an email address element. It takes the following attributes:</p>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">name</td>
<td valign="top">The display name for the address.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">address</td>
<td valign="top">The email address.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
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<h4>message</h4>
<p>Specifies the message to include in the email body. It takes the following
attributes:</p>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
</tr>
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<td valign="top">src</td>
<td valign="top">The file to use as the message.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">mimetype</td>
<td valign="top">The content type to use for the message.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<p>If the <code>src</code> attribute is not specified, then text can be added
inside the <code><message></code> element. Property expansion will occur
in the message, whether it is specified as an external file or as text within
the <code><message></code> element.</p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<blockquote><pre>
<mail from="me"
tolist="you"
subject="Results of nightly build"
files="build.log" />
</pre></blockquote>
<p>Sends an email from <i>me</i> to <i>you</i> with a subject of
<i>Results of nightly build</i> and includes the contents of the file
<i>build.log</i> in the body of the message.</p>
<blockquote><pre>
<mail mailhost="smtp.myisp.com" mailport="1025" subject="Test build">
<from name="me@myisp.com">
<to name="all@xyz.com">
<message>The ${buildname} nightly build has completed</message>
<fileset dir="dist">
<includes name="**/*.zip"/>
</fileset>
</mail>
</pre></blockquote>
<p>Sends an eMail from <i>me@myisp.com</i> to <i>all@xyz.com</i> with a subject of
<i>Test Build</i> and attaches any zip files from the dist directory. The
task will attempt to use JavaMail and fall back to UU encoding or no encoding in
that order depending on what support classes are available. <code>${buildname}</code>
will be replaced with the <code>buildname</code> property's value.</p>
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