Cannot attach multiple files to an email

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Hi All !

I’m trying to attach multiple file to an email by using the mail module but it’s not working at all because I have parameters in my files’ name:

- name: send an email
  mail:
    host: email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
    port: 587
    username: xxx
    password: xxx
    from: xxx
    to: "{{ item.firstname }} {{ item.lastname }} <{{ item.email }}>"
    subject: configuration files
    body: "{{ lookup('template', 'email_body.j2') }}"
    secure: starttls
    attach: "/mnt/data/users_config/{{ item.firstname }}_{{ item.lastname }}.txt /mnt/data/users_config/{{ item.firstname }}_{{ item.lastname }}.pdf"
  loop: "{{ users }}"

I tried to add quotes almost everywhere but either it tries to load a single file (not splitting by space) resulting in a [Errno 2] No such file or directory or it ends up with an invalid yaml if I don't have the required quotes.

Any idea ?

Thank you !
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Ok, I found my mistake !

I was reading the documentation for Ansible v2.3 which states that attach is:

A space-separated list of pathnames of files to attach to the message.

And I’m using Ansible v2.5 where attach is a classic list…

Using a list is working well.

Sorry for the noise