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How to use the sendemail command to send results to different emails created with eval?

kalianov
Path Finder

Hi splunkers !!! Need help.

I used eval to create a field with the email address for some users:

search myquery.... | fields username, result | eval mail=username+"@mydomain.com"
|sendemail to=mail subject="Splunk is wathing you" sendresults=true
inline=true priority=normal

But it's not working.

In python.log
I want to send emails for all users from my search with specific results for every username from the search.
Is it possible? Can I use "mail" field like variable?

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1 Solution

woodcock
Esteemed Legend

As a test, configure your Search Head to use gmail like this:

http://blogs.splunk.com/2014/06/27/splunk-alerts-using-gmail-twitter-phone-calls-and-much-more/

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kalianov
Path Finder

I must to use internal email server

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afarmer
Explorer

Did you ever get this to work?

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sirajnp
Path Finder

It's pretty simple, don't even need to use map command. Just enable send email alert action and in to: field set $result.email$ (email - depend upon your field name in Splunk result) and select trigger "for each result". Email will be send to the respective email address for each line of result.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.3/Alert/Emailnotification#Send_email_to_different_r...

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kalianov
Path Finder

It's a good way but I still have one problem.

my search | stats count(filename) AS files, sum(size) AS TotalMb by user| sort -TotalMb |  eval email=user."@mydomai.com" 
| table user, files, TotalMb, email | head 2 
| sendemail  to=$email$ from=$splunk@mydomain.com$ subject="Big files" sendresults=true inline=true priority=normal server="mail.server" message="TEST"

Result is emailed for each user with the same table:
1 user1, 123, 506Mb, user1@mydomai.com
2 user2, 234, 26Mb, user2@mydomai.com

But I need a separate email:
Email1 to user1@mydomai.com
1 user1, 123, 506Mb, user1@mydomai.com
Email2 to user2@mydomai.com
2 user2, 234, 26Mb, user2@mydomai.com

I have tried:

| map search="sendemail  to=$email$ from=$splunk@mydomain.com$ subject="Big files" sendresults=true inline=true priority=normal server="mail.server" message="TEST""

but each user receives email with "No results found"

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