sendMessage #

Sends an email using one of the registered SMTP accounts.

The SMTP provider accepts the email recipient type: each entry of recipients is an email address string. Carbon copies go in params.cc and params.bcc.

Query Syntax #

HTTP #

URL: http://kuzzle:7512/_/hermes/providers/smtp/accounts/:accountId
Method: POST

Other protocols #

{
  "controller": "hermes",
  "action": "sendMessage",
  "providerId": "smtp",
  "accountId": "<account id>",
  "body": {
    "recipients": [
      "<recipient email>"
    ],
    "content": {
      "subject": "<email subject>",
      "message": "<email body>",
      "format": "html"            // optional: "html" (default) or "text"
    },
    "params": {
      "from": "<sender email>",  // optional — overrides account default_sender
      "cc": ["<cc email>"],      // optional
      "bcc": ["<bcc email>"],    // optional
      "attachments": [           // optional
        {
          "content": "<base64 encoded attachment content>",
          "contentType": "<attachment content type>",
          "filename": "<attachment file name>",
          "contentDisposition": "attachment" | "inline",
          "cid": "<content ID if inline attachment>" // optional
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Kourou #

kourou hermes:sendMessage -a providerId=smtp -a accountId=<account id> --body '{
  "recipients": ["<recipient email>"],
  "content": {
    "subject": "<email subject>",
    "message": "<email body>"
  },
  "params": {}
}'

Arguments #

providerId: provider identifier, smtp
accountId: identifier of a registered SMTP account

Body properties #

recipients: array of email address strings (recipient type email)
content.subject: email subject
content.message: email body
content.format (optional): html (default) to send message as HTML, text to send it as plain text
params.from: sender override (optional)
params.cc, params.bcc: arrays of carbon copy email addresses (optional)
params.attachments: base64-encoded attachments (optional)

params is validated against the provider's messageAdditionalParamsSchema.

Response #

Returns an empty result on success.

{
  "requestId": "d16d5e8c-464a-4589-938f-fd84f46080b9",
  "status": 200,
  "error": null,
  "controller": "hermes",
  "action": "sendMessage",
  "result": null
}