Allow to send emails without attachment without entering interactive mode

[stefanjudis]

It's not possible to send emails without attachment without entering interactive mode

When scripting email operations I'd like to send emails. The command

twilio email:send --from=no-reply@... --to=stefanjudis@... --subject="test" --text="test"

doesn't terminate but rather asks interactively if I want to send an attachment, too.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run the described command 👆 and try to send an email without entering the interactive question.

Any other information you want to share that is relevant to the issue being reported. Especially, why do you consider this to be a bug? What do you expect to happen instead?

This behavior prevents me from automating email operations (there are ways around that but yeah...). As an email attachment is optional I didn't expect this question with from, to and text defined. :)

Thanks a bunch for looking into this. 😊

Technical details:

• twilio-cli Version: 1.4.0
• Node.js Version: 12.4.0

[childish-sambino]

Not clear on what's the proper flow. Perhaps only prompt for an attachment if the --text flag was not provided? As in, why should we prompt for an attachment if you already provided body text as part of the command.

[stefanjudis]

I'm not 100% sure about that either and I haven't checked the overall concepts across the CLI but i was expecting --attachment to be optional. After i figured out that it isn't I was looking for a --no-attachment flag (which feels a little odd though).

Overall, I feel like that there should be a way to disable interactive mode for all the commands.

[childish-sambino]

Makes sense. Do you have any examples of other CLIs which do something similar?

[stefanjudis]

Unfortunately, not really, but I remember that I used --interactive flags in the past. A little bit of googling brought up Azure's concept and that topic. :)

[thinkingserious]

Since there has been no activity on this issue since March 1, 2020, we are closing this issue. Please feel free to reopen or create a new issue if you still require assistance. Thank you!