Cannot send Email via EmailAction, when (internal) Email server does not need authentication

[MarcelBeining]

Describe the bug One is not able to send an Email via an internal server that does not require authentication (see below).

I would be willing do create a PR to fix this, if it is fine, that GX supports sending such emails.

To Reproduce I am using the EmailAction class to send a summary validation result to an email address

from great_expectations.checkpoint import EmailAction
action = EmailAction(
            data_context=None,
            renderer={
                "module_name": "great_expectations.render.renderer.email_renderer",
                "class_name": "EmailRenderer",
            },
            smtp_address=smtp_address,
            smtp_port=smtp_port,
            sender_login=sender_login,
            sender_password=sender_password,
            receiver_emails=",".join(recipients),
            sender_alias=sender_alias,
            use_ssl=security_protocol.lower() == "ssl",
            use_tls=security_protocol.lower() == "tls",
            notify_on=self._notify_on,
            notify_with=None,
        )

When I try to run the action via action.run(...) I get

┌───────────────────── Traceback (most recent call last) ─────────────────────┐ │ C:\XXXXX\scratches\scra │ │ tch_5.py:19 in │ │ │ │ 16 │ "recipients": ["XXXXX"] │ │ 17 } │ │ 18 │ │ > 19 notifier = EmailNotifier(**email_notifier) │ │ 20 │ │ 21 summary_validation_result = ExpectationSuiteValidationResult( │ │ 22 │ success=True, │ │ │ │ XXXXX\venv\lib\site-packages\kedro_expectat │ │ ions\notification.py:85 in init │ │ │ │ 82 │ │ │ notify_on=notify_on, │ │ 83 │ │ │ subject=subject, │ │ 84 │ │ ) │ │ > 85 │ │ self._action = EmailAction( │ │ 86 │ │ │ data_context=None, │ │ 87 │ │ │ renderer={ │ │ 88 │ │ │ │ "module_name": "great_expectations.render.renderer.em │ │ │ │ XXXXXXX\venv\lib\site-packages\great_expectat │ │ ions\checkpoint\actions.py:760 in init │ │ │ │ 757 │ │ self.use_ssl = use_ssl │ │ 758 │ │ assert smtp_address, "No SMTP server address found in action │ │ 759 │ │ assert smtp_port, "No SMTP server port found in action confi │ │ > 760 │ │ assert sender_login, "No login found for sending the email i │ │ 761 │ │ assert ( │ │ 762 │ │ │ sender_password │ │ 763 │ │ ), "No password found for sending the email in action config │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ AssertionError: No login found for sending the email in action config.

However I must not provide a login as the server does not require one (it is an internal server and only allow specific recipients). When I provide None or empty strings as login and password, it won't work, as the great expectation utils methos send_email always tries to perform a login with the provided login/password, which will fail.

Expected behavior Should be able to send an email to an internal email server that does not require authentication, by not defining sender_login and sender_password (or define it as None).

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Operating System: Windows
• Great Expectations Version: 0.18.8
• Data Source: None
• Cloud environment: None

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

[MarcelBeining]

Nearly 3 months passed, and the accepted PR is still not part of the release! What's going on?

[MarcelBeining]

@TrangPham You were assigned for the PR, do you have any update when this already merged PR is finally going into release?

[MarcelBeining]

@TrangPham @anthonyburdi What's going on here? 5 months passed, still accepted PR #9388 not part of any release! Very disappointed

[molliemarie]

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