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<h2><a name="mail">Mail</a></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>A task to send SMTP email. Text and text files to include in the message
body may be specified. To send binary attachments the optional
<a href="../OptionalTasks/mimemail.html">MimeMail</a> task should be used instead</p>
<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">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">tolist</td>
<td valign="top">Comma-separated list of recipients.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes</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">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">files</td>
<td valign="top">Filename(s) of text to send in the body of the email.
Multiple files are comma-separated.</td>
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<td valign="top">mailhost</td>
<td valign="top">Host name of the mail server.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No, default to "localhost"</td>
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<td valign="top">mailport</td>
<td valign="top">Port of the mail server.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No, default to SMTP default (25)</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>Examples</h3>
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<mail from="me" tolist="you" subject="Results of nightly build"
files="build.log"/></pre>
<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 <i>build.log</i>
in the body of the message.</p>
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