Sending email for trigger: Always ERROR: Could not send email as a part of the post-build publishers. java.lang.NullPointerException at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisherDescriptor.createSession(ExtendedEmailPublisherDescriptor.java:244) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.createMail(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:726) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.sendMail(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:451) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher._perform(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:441) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.perform(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:349) at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:744) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:690) at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.cleanUp(Build.java:196) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1845) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429) Some error occured trying to send the email...check the Jenkins log Finished: SUCCESS
Sending email for trigger: Always ERROR: Could not send email as a part of the post-build publishers. java.lang.NullPointerException at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisherDescriptor.createSession(ExtendedEmailPublisherDescriptor.java:244) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.createMail(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:726) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.sendMail(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:451) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher._perform(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:441) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.perform(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:349) at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:744) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:690) at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.cleanUp(Build.java:196) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1845) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429) Some error occured trying to send the email...check the Jenkins log Finished: SUCCESS
ERROR: Could not send email as a part of the post-build publishers.
java.lang.NullPointerException at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisherDescriptor.createSession(ExtendedEmailPublisherDescriptor.java:244) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.createMail(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:726) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.sendMail(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:451) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher._perform(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:441) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.perform(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:349) at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:744) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:690) at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.cleanUp(Build.java:196) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1845) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429) Some error occured trying to send the email...check the Jenkins log Finished: SUCCESS
Sending email for trigger: Always ERROR: Could not send email as a part of the post-build publishers. java.lang.NullPointerException at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisherDescriptor.createSession(ExtendedEmailPublisherDescriptor.java:244) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.createMail(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:726) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.sendMail(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:451) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher._perform(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:441) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.perform(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:349) at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:744) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:690) at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.cleanUp(Build.java:196) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1845) at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43) at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429) Some error occured trying to send the email...check the Jenkins log Finished: SUCCESS
I also got similar issue just few days back for email extension plugin 2.66.
Please resolve this issue asap.
Email was triggered for: Unstable (Test Failures) Sending email for trigger: Unstable (Test Failures)
ERROR: Could not send email as a part of the post-build publishers.
java.lang.NullPointerException at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisherDescriptor.createSession(ExtendedEmailPublisherDescriptor.java:244) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.createMail(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:726) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.sendMail(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:451) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher._perform(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:441) at hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher.perform(ExtendedEmailPublisher.java:349) at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:744) at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:690)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$MavenModuleSetBuildExecution.cleanUp(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:1098) at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1863) at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:543)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97) at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:429)
Alex Earl , issue is resolved. I added my email id in the Jenkins mail configuration and now the email extension plugin is triggering emails after build.
It seems we need to configure at least one email account in the jenkins mail configuration. If email is not present then null pointer exception is thrown.