Email Configuration

You can configure the email that is being sent in your airflow.cfg by setting a subject_template and/or a html_content_template in the [email] section.

[email]
email_backend = airflow.utils.email.send_email_smtp
subject_template = /path/to/my_subject_template_file
html_content_template = /path/to/my_html_content_template_file

You can configure sender’s email address by setting from_email in the [email] section.

To configure SMTP settings, checkout the SMTP section in the standard configuration. If you do not want to store the SMTP credentials in the config or in the environment variables, you can create a connection called smtp_default of Email type, or choose a custom connection name and set the email_conn_id with it’s name in the configuration & store SMTP username-password in it. Other SMTP settings like host, port etc always gets picked up from the configuration only. The connection can be of any type (for example ‘HTTP connection’).

If you want to check which email backend is currently set, you can use airflow config get-value email email_backend command as in the example below.

$ airflow config get-value email email_backend
airflow.utils.email.send_email_smtp

To access the task’s information you use Jinja Templating in your template files.

For example a html_content_template file could look like this:

Try {{try_number}} out of {{max_tries + 1}}<br>
Exception:<br>{{exception_html}}<br>
Log: <a href="{{ti.log_url}}">Link</a><br>
Host: {{ti.hostname}}<br>
Mark success: <a href="{{ti.mark_success_url}}">Link</a><br>

Note

For more information on setting the configuration, see Setting Configuration Options

Send email using SendGrid

Airflow can be configured to send e-mail using SendGrid.

Follow the steps below to enable it:

  1. Include sendgrid provider as part of your Airflow installation, e.g.,

pip install 'apache-airflow[sendgrid]' --constraint ...
or
pip install 'apache-airflow-providers-sendgrid' --constraint ...

  1. Update email_backend property in [email] section in airflow.cfg, i.e.

    [email]
email_backend = airflow.providers.sendgrid.utils.emailer.send_email
email_conn_id = sendgrid_default

  2. Create a connection called sendgrid_default, or choose a custom connection name and set it in email_conn_id of ‘Email’ type. Only login and password are used from the connection.

  3. Configure sender’s email address and name either by exporting the environment variables SENDGRID_MAIL_FROM and SENDGRID_MAIL_SENDER or in your airflow.cfg by setting from_email in the [email] section.

Send email using AWS SES

Airflow can be configured to send e-mail using AWS SES.

Follow the steps below to enable it:

  1. Include amazon subpackage as part of your Airflow installation:

pip install 'apache-airflow[amazon]'

  1. Update email_backend property in [email] section in airflow.cfg:

    [email]
email_backend = airflow.providers.amazon.aws.utils.emailer.send_email
email_conn_id = aws_default

  2. Create a connection called aws_default, or choose a custom connection name and set it in email_conn_id. The type of connection should be Amazon Web Services.

  3. Configure sender’s email address in your airflow.cfg by setting from_email in the [email] section.

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