Any way to affect the recipient of the mail(ext) plugin recipient list ?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

Hey,

Background:
I got a little script (https://github.com/maxandersen/jiralint) which is used to take queries against Jira locating stale jiras or jiras with missing/wrong information on them
and then generate a junit test xml report which then in turn makes jenkins generate a build failure report. Been working great for years but until now
even I can identifiy the individuals who needs to react for now the build failure just been blasted out to the whole team.

I would like to change/fix that.

Question:
Is it possible by the build itself to change the recipients of the mail(ext) plugin ?

a) either by using an environment variable
b) contributing to the list of culprits

For #A I've only seen it allow build paramters - that is not enough since I don't know the set of recipients before the build have completed.
For #B I've only found a way to change that is to implement a fork of the git plugin but I would prefer I could simply add/change the list of culprits if possible.

Any ideas/suggestions to the above that does not require *too* exotic plugins ? :)

Thanks,
/max

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

I found this issue: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-5942

it was closed as incomplete but as far as I can see it is exactly the problem - not possible to access environment variables set by the build in the actual mail.

[Slide]

Environment variables work fine, you use the ENV token like ${ENV, var="YOURVAR"}. You could also use a presend script to modify the recipient list using a groovy script. See the wiki for more info.

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[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On Monday, March 31, 2014 2:56:11 PM UTC+2, slide wrote:

Environment variables work fine, you use the ENV token like ${ENV, var="YOURVAR"}. You could also use a presend script to modify the recipient list using a groovy script. See the wiki for more info.

No, the ${ENV style does not work in the body nor recipient list.

I guess I could try the groovy script approach - but would be simpler if mail-ext actually supported the env variables as claimed. Maybe it was added very late and I don't have latest update ?

/max

[Slide]

No, its been around for a long time and works for me just fine. It may depend on how you are setting the env variable. Ones that are set by build steps are not retained by Jenkins (nothing to do with email-ext) so keep that in mind.

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 1:50:47 PM UTC+2, slide wrote:

No, its been around for a long time and works for me just fine. It may depend on how you are setting the env variable. Ones that are set by build steps are not retained by Jenkins (nothing to do with email-ext) so keep that in mind.

so this means there is no way for the build to affect the list of recipients of mail ?

I tried using tokens but they seem to only work for subject and body.

Is this somehow intentional ?

/max

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

I take this back.

${FILE,path="PATH"} worked. Environment variables does not.

I've updated https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Email-ext+plugin to actually state recipient list also honors email tokens.

 

[busie...@gmail.com]

Hi

I'm trying to add pre-send script and modify the recipients list using groovy just like you mentioned , but I can't find relevant wiki for this. Where I can see the API I can use inside the script.

only saw examples using 'build' and using 'User' APIs. is there any build.Recipients = /***/ ?

thanks in advance

[Slide]

There is a 'msg' object that is an instance of MimeMessage [1]. The 'build' object is an AbstractBuild [2] instance. To modify the recipients, you would want to do stuff with the 'msg' object.

1 - http://geronimo.apache.org/maven/specs/geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec/1.6/apidocs/javax/mail/internet/MimeMessage.html

2 - http://javadoc.jenkins-ci.org/hudson/model/AbstractBuild.html

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[geoffroy...@gmail.com]

Hello

we use this script in the presend part of EmailExt plugin. It will change the sender email address, if an environment variable is set.

I think you can easily adapt it to your needs

import javax.mail.Message.RecipientType
import javax.mail.Address
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage
if ("${ENV,var="PROJECT_ADMIN_MAIL"}") {
    msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress("${ENV,var="PROJECT_ADMIN_MAIL"}"))
}