How can we use a variable for E-mail Notification Recipients field of a job ?

[Erik Vande Velde]

I tried the following:

(1) define a global variable in Jenkins - Manage Jenkins - Configure system, and refer to it with ${mail_list} => the variable was not resolved

(2) define properties in a local properties file, and access them from the EnvInject plugin => the variable is again unresolved

According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21224481/how-to-set-environment-variable-so-that-it-can-be-used-in-jenkins we have to reference the variable with "$email_list"

=> none of "$email_list",$email_list and ${email_list} seem to work for me

(3) I had a brief look at extended mail plugin documentation, and they don't talk about using a variable for the recipient either ...  

[Matthew...@diamond.ac.uk]

We use variables exactly as per your method (1), and it just works. Syntax is ${DAQ_MX_email_list}.

You’re going to need to give us a bit more info about your configuration.

What release of Jenkins are your running? Are you using the regular mailer, or the extended email plugin?

Sorry to ask, but I assume that you have checked the spelling or the variable name.

 

Can I suggest adding a build step that does an echo “$mail_list”? You need to work out whether the problem is that the variable is not set, or whether it is set, but the mailer is not picking it up.

 

Hope that helps

Matthew

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[Erik Vande Velde]

(1) The release I'm running is 1.583

(2) I'm using the regular mailer, not the extended one

(3) I copy pasted the name of the variable, I'm 100% sure it is correct

(4) I put an 'env' command in the job configuration (as our jenkins runs on windows), and is showing my variable

So i'm sure the problem is that the mailer doesn't pick up my variable, while it exists in the jenkins environment.

A question: when you look at your job's console output do you see ${DAQ_MX_email_list} or the  resolved variable value ?

[Slide]

The default mailer does not do token replacement in any field. If you want that functionality, you need to use email-ext.

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[Erik Vande Velde]

Thanks! Now it works, but the email-ext needs a lot of configuration to make it do what I want to, so i hope that one day the default mailer will resolve variables too ...

[Slide]

I don't think it will. Email-ext is there for that purpose.

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