Command within an Ansible variable for Playbook

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Hi,

I am pretty new to ansible, i am trying to get ansible to send me an email from my defined hosts (as in the inventory file

To make the playbook work i have had to hardcode the FROM field within the email module of ansible.

I have hardcoded the playbook file such that the FROM field is the control server .

This works… however the FROM field gives the wrong impression that the email is being sent from the control server , ie root@server1.myserver1 but in other words its coming from each individual server .ie root@server2.myserver… etc

I have 6 servers under ansible control for my lab purposes ie server 1 to server6

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if the hostname envvar is set before you run ansible you can use:

from=root@{{lookup('env', 'HOSTNAME')}}

another option is to just execute `hostname`

from=root@{{lookup('pipe', 'hostname')}}