Hello,

you're missing an indentation on the line after

body: |

Luca

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 2:36 PM Sandy Toshev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Thank you for the fast response,
>
> So I added the following at the end of the .yml file, but I guess I do not 
> know the correct syntax, because I get an error.
> #added from suggestion
>   - name: Sending an email about it
>     mail:
>       body: |
>       Deleted some files - {% for f in files_to_delete.files %}f, {% endfor %}
>       subject: Deleted files overview
>       host: smtp.gmail.com
>       port: 587
>       username: [email protected]
>       password: my_very_secure_password
>       to: my_private_username@my_private_domain
>
> ===
> The error is as follows:
> ERROR! We were unable to read either as JSON nor YAML, these are the errors 
> we got from each:
> JSON: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
>
> Syntax Error while loading YAML.
>   could not find expected ':'
>
> The error appears to be in '/root/ansible_playbooks/remove_distfiles.yml': 
> line 21, column 7, but may
> be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
>
> The offending line appears to be:
>
>       Deleted some files - {% for f in files_to_delete.files %}f, {% endfor %}
>       subject: Deleted files overview
>       ^ here
>
> On Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 3:15:02 PM UTC+3 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Use https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/mail_module.html
>> and set the body argument to an inline jinja template, then iterate
>> over your "files_to_delete.files" variable.
>>
>> - name: Sending an email
>> mail:
>> body: |
>> Deleted some files - {% for f in files_to_delete.files %}f, {% endfor %}
>> subject: Deleted files overview
>>
>> etc etc
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 13:55, Sandy Toshev <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi guys,
>> >
>> > So I have been using the following simple playbook to keep a folder clean 
>> > from files. Everything is working fine. However, I got into thinking that 
>> > it will not hurt, if I get a notification, containing what has been 
>> > deleted.
>> > So my question is - may I use the variable into a body of an email? I have 
>> > tried to view the contents of the registered variable, and I cannot seem 
>> > to find a way.
>> > How can I configure an email that will have something like "I have deleted 
>> > the following files - file1, file2, etc.?
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance.
>> >
>> > ---
>> > - hosts: lxc
>> > tasks:
>> > - name: Finding older than 1 week files in the distfiles folder
>> > find:
>> > paths: /var/cache/distfiles
>> > age: 1w
>> > recurse: no
>> > register: files_to_delete
>> >
>> > - name: Removing the founded files
>> > file:
>> > path: "{{ item.path }}"
>> > state: absent
>> > with_items: "{{ files_to_delete.files }}"
>> >
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>>
>>
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