Email action content

This page describes the options on the Content tab of the Edit Notification dialog box for both the AWS Email Host and the Email actions.

• Common email fields applies to both the AWS Email Host and the Email actions.
• SMTP fields applies to the Email action only.
• Amazon SES fields applies to the AWS Email Host action only.

Common email fields

The fields in the following table are present in all email actions.

Field	Description
Body Content Type	The email message format, HTML or plain text.
Message (Subject) Format	The Subject line of the email message. The default value includes content variables. Best practice: Include the event severity variable (${evt/severity}) in this field.
Body Format	The body of the email message. The default value includes content variables. Best practice: To facilitate debugging, include variables for the name of the notification (${notification/name}) and the name of the trigger that matched the event (${trigger/name}) in this field.
Clear Message (Subject) Format	The Subject line of the clearing email message. The default value includes content variables. Best practice: Include the clearing event severity variable (${clearEvt/severity}) in this field.
Body Format	The body of the clearing email message. The default value includes content variables. Best practice: To facilitate debugging, include variables for the name of the notification (${notification/name}) and the name of the trigger that matched the clearing event (${trigger/name}) in this field.
Skip fails in TALES evaluation ?	Mark this check box to ensure that the email message is sent even if the TALES expressions included in the message do not resolve.
From Address for Emails	The email address to use in the From line of the email message.

SMTP fields

The fields in the following table are present only for the Email action.

When the SMTP fields are empty, Zenoss Cloud uses its default SMTP server to send email. Provide values only to use an alternate SMTP server.

Field	Description
SMTP Host	The hostname or IP of an SMTP server host to use instead of the default Zenoss Cloud SMTP host.
SMTP Port (usually 25)	The port on which an SMTP server is listening for email to send.
Use TLS?	Mark this check box to encrypt emails.
SMTP Username (blank for none)	The username of an account on the non-default SMTP server.
SMTP Password (blank for none)	The password of the account on the non-default SMTP server.

Amazon SES fields

The fields in the following table are present only for the AWS Email Host action.

Both the sender and the recipients of emails sent through this action must be verified SES users in the target AWS region.

Field	Description
AWS Account Name	The name of an authorized Amazon SES account.
AWS Region	The AWS region to use.
AWS Access Key	The ID of the authorized account's AWS access key.
AWS Secret Key	The secret key of the authorized account's AWS access key.