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Major logstash changes in the email output plugin

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Today I was looking on the upgrade of logstash 1.5.4 to newest version 2.2.0 in the office. There are some configuration breakers. One of them, is in the email output plugin.

The current configuration in logstash 1.5.x allows to use a options hash, with the value of setting the smtp host (smtp-ip-or-host):

email {
  to => "user@gmail.com"
  codec => "plain"
  contenttype => "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
  options => {
    smtpIporHost => "smtp.gmail.com"
    port => 587
    userName => "user@gmail.com"
    password => "secret"
    starttls => true
  }
}

Base on this github issue, I was able to trace down the source code in Ruby. In the recent documentation (v2.2) is was hard to find, where smtpIporHost has moved.

This is the new configuration in v2.2:

email {
  to => "user@gmail.com"
  codec => "plain"
  contenttype => "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
  address => "smtp.gmail.com"
  port => 587
  userName => "user@gmail.com"
  password => "secret"
  use_tls => true
}

Except for address and use_tls the attributes have become its own attributes and moved directly into the email configuration.

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