Setting up a configuration profile for smtp

console

$ salt 'minion' smtp.send_msg 'user2@myserver.com' 'test message' profile='my_smtp_profile'
minion:
    The minion function caused an exception: Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "C:\salt\bin\lib\site-packages\salt\minion.py", line 1142, in _thread_return
        return_data = func(*args, **kwargs)
      File "C:\salt\bin\lib\site-packages\salt\modules\smtp.py", line 93, in send_msg
        server = creds.get('smtp.server')
    AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get'

$ salt 'minion' config.option my_smtp_profile -l all
[DEBUG   ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/master
[DEBUG   ] Including configuration from '/etc/salt/master.d/smtp.conf'
[DEBUG   ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/master.d/smtp.conf
[DEBUG   ] Using cached minion ID from /etc/salt/minion_id: salt
[DEBUG   ] Missing configuration file: ~/.saltrc
[TRACE   ] None of the required configuration sections, 'logstash_udp_handler' and 'logstash_zmq_handler', were found the in the configuration. Not loading the Logstash logging handlers module.
[DEBUG   ] Configuration file path: /etc/salt/master
[DEBUG   ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/master
[DEBUG   ] Including configuration from '/etc/salt/master.d/smtp.conf'
[DEBUG   ] Reading configuration from /etc/salt/master.d/smtp.conf
[DEBUG   ] Using cached minion ID from /etc/salt/minion_id: salt
[DEBUG   ] Missing configuration file: ~/.saltrc
[DEBUG   ] MasterEvent PUB socket URI: ipc:///var/run/salt/master/master_event_pub.ipc
[DEBUG   ] MasterEvent PULL socket URI: ipc:///var/run/salt/master/master_event_pull.ipc
[DEBUG   ] Sending event - data = {'_stamp': '2015-06-03T18:43:31.280535'}
[TRACE   ] get_event() received = {'tag': 'salt/event/new_client', 'data': {'_stamp': '2015-06-03T18:43:31.280535'}}
[TRACE   ] func get_cli_event_returns()
[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded local_cache.get_load
[DEBUG   ] get_iter_returns for jid 20150603124331297817 sent to set(['minion']) will timeout at 12:43:36.303129
[DEBUG   ] jid 20150603124331297817 return from dneeley-wks
[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded nested.output
[TRACE   ] data = {'minion': ''}
minion:
[DEBUG   ] jid 20150603124331297817 found all minions set(['minion'])

smtp.conf

{# located at /etc/salt/master.d/smtp.conf #}
{# configuration profile, as defined at http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.smtp.html #}
my_smtp_profile:
    smtp.server: myserver.com
    smtp.tls: false
    smtp.sender:  sender@myserver.com
    smtp.username: user
    smtp.password: verybadpass

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