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Configuring email notifications for CruiseControl.NET

November 26 2007 5:15AM

I gotten a few emails asking how I to setup email notifications for builds running under CruiseControl.NET. Here is a section from one of the ccnet.config files I’m using on a CruiseControl.NET server:

 1 <publishers>
 2     <statistics />
 3     <xmllogger />
 4 
 5     <email from="fromaddr@here.com" mailhost="192.168.1.14"
 6         mailhostPassword="pwd" mailhostUsername="username" 
 7         includeDetails="true">
 8     <users>
 9         <user name="Steve Trefethen" address="stevet@nospam.com"
10             group="NotifyGroup" />
11     </users>
12     <groups>
13         <group name="NotifyGroup" notification="failed" />
14     </groups>
15     </email>
16 </publishers>

Nothing unusual except of course for changing some of the more obvious details. :-)

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Tags: Continuous Integration, howto

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Comments

12/18/2007 6:55:20 PM #

FYI, there are some changes beyond the release level of 1.3 (build #1.3.0.2918) that make email publishers easier to configure if you have more than a handful of users to set up.

Ross Patterson

12/19/2007 3:55:41 AM #

Hi Ross,
Yes, I've noticed the latest changes and in fact, I have a blog post in the works talking about some of the post 1.3 features. Btw, thanks for you help on the sourcecontrol exception issue.

Steve Trefethen

5/7/2008 2:46:12 PM #

Is there a way to set up cruise control to have emails go out to those uerss who have committed a files for a build that fails? I've read how you can set up users and not assign them to a group, which intern emails them whether the build fails or passes. I want the same kind of functionality, but only when the build fails. I dont want to have them get emailed if the build passes.

Craig

5/7/2008 4:37:46 PM #

Craig,
Yes, there is a way to target email at source control userids. For more details refer to confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/.../Email+Publisher">this page of the CCNET docs. Specifically, look at how Converters work where you can convert a sourcecontrol userid to an email address. I'm fairly certain that the support for this feature was introduced after the 1.3 release so you'll likely want to grab a later build or grab the tip and rebuild CCNET.

Steve Trefethen

5/7/2008 5:56:13 PM #

Thats awesome. Thanks for responding so quickly, and for some great blogs that are easily understood.

Craig

5/7/2008 5:58:10 PM #

Hi Craig,
Thanks, I'm glad I could help.

Steve Trefethen

9/17/2008 4:03:24 PM #

How do I configure the email body. I would like to look similar to the Build Report in Dash board. In Dashboard I see Build status, Modifications and MSTest Summary.

Thanks
KMD

KMD

11/26/2009 12:10:47 AM #

Hi,

I am not able to send the email through CCnet.Can you please help me out.
I have created one email list file EMailList.xml,below is the content of this file
<cb:config-template xmlns:cb="urn:ccnet.config.builder">
  <cb:define name="EmailPublisher">
    <email subjectPrefix="CP" from="BuildTeam@uk.tesco.com" mailhost="mail host" includeDetails="True">

      <users>
      <user name="Singh,Saurabh" address="saurabh.singh@in.tesco.com" group="buildteam" />
      </users>
      <groups>
        <group name="buildteam" notifications="Change"/>
      </groups>
     </email>

    </cb:define>
</cb:config-template

The email file has been mention in the ccnet.config as below

<cruisecontrol xmlns:cb="urn:ccnet.config.builder">
<cb:include href="EMailList.xml" xmlns:cb="urn:ccnet.config.builder"/>

<project name=""-----
Details of the project
      <cb:EmailPublisher/>
    </publishers>
  </project>

This is how i had configure and i dont know why its working, I am not receiving any issue but no mail is generating.
Can you please help me out in this.
Please let me know if i m not clear