Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment

Setting up email notifications

Now that we have configured a project and know it can fail when we mess up our code, we need to set up some sort of notification so we know when our build breaks or gets fixed. You could have your Jenkins project open all day and check it after every commit, but we need to make sure everyone is notified when a build fails. So we are going to set up email notifications. I am going to show you this example using a Gmail account (Google mail), but this will work with any email provider as long as you have an SMTP server and login credentials. Go to the Jenkins system configuration and find the email notification (near the bottom). Google's SMTP server is smtp.gmail.com, so be sure to put that in SMTP server under ...