SYSTEM$SEND_EMAIL

Sends an email notification to the specified recipients from no-reply@snowflake.net.

Note

All Snowflake customers can send email messages using this feature. Email messages sent from the Notifications System Stored Procedure are processed through Snowflake’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) deployments, using AWS Simple Email Service (SES). The content of an email message sent using AWS may be retained by Snowflake for up to thirty days to manage the delivery of the message. After this period, the message content is deleted.

Syntax

CALL SYSTEM$SEND_EMAIL(
    '<integration_name>',
    '<email_address_1> [ , ... <email_address_N> ]',
    '<email_subject>',
    '<email_content>',
    [ '<mime_type>' ]
);
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Arguments

Required

integration_name

Name of the notification integration that you want to use to send the email message.

email_address_1 [ , ... email_address_N ]

List of email addresses that should receive the email notification.

Specify one or more unquoted email addresses in a comma-separated string.

The email addresses must be in the ALLOWED_RECIPIENTS property of the notification integration. If any of the email addresses is not in ALLOWED_RECIPIENTS, no emails are sent.

email_subject

Subject line of the email notification. You cannot specify an empty string.

email_content

Body of the email. You cannot specify an empty string.

Optional

mime_type

The MIME type of the email_content value, the email’s content. Default is text/plain.

The following types are supported:

  • text/plain – Specify this when email_content is plain text. This is the default value.

  • text/html – Specify this when email_content is HTML.

    Note that the content of a message of the text/html type is not validated as well-formed HTML.

Returns

Returns TRUE if the stored procedure executes successfully.

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