Feature request: sendmail

[mark-epstein]

Is this a feature relevant to companion itself, and not a module?

• I believe this to be a feature for companion, not a module

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Describe the feature

Add an ability to send email as an action.
Email contents should be user-defined and could include any variable values or conditions the system knows about

Reference: https://support.google.com/a/answer/176600?hl=en

Enhancements:
User could configure a way to restrict email frequency to prevent "spamming" from a condition that was bouncing. Maybe the "held" messages could be queued up and sent all in one email.

Usecases

Without being co-located at my system's GUI, I'd like to know in relative real-time if my system is used in some specific way, or if certain thresholds are met, e.g. if a device reports an error condition.

[Julusian]

I think this makes more sense as a module, rather than being baked into the core.

[mark-epstein]

I was torn where to put it since it's not specific to a device or software. But I don't disagree with you. Should I resubmit it or is there some backend way to move the request? never mind I see you did that already

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[BenJamesAndo]

@mark-epstein you could use the Generic SMTP module to send emails.
https://github.com/bitfocus/companion-module-generic-smtp

[mark-epstein]

Ugh, I didn't see there was one. I'll try it out tomorrow

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