通过电子邮件通知失败/通过Jenkins工作

Question

We have an in-company system for creating production builds, and I need to create a Jenkins job to automate those builds.

There is a way to automate the launch of production build. But you can only know the results of the build by an email notification. Furthermore, you can only subscribe to notification using your personal domain credentials, ie the same login/pass that you use to log into your computer (and the password changes every month).

So now, Jenkins job is considered "pass" as soon as the build launches , and not when it actually finishes.

I wonder how to make Jenkins pass/fail the job with the given restrictions.

Additionally, I want to avoid:

• hardcoding my personal credentials anywhere,
• depending on my or anyone else's personal computer being turned on.

Ideas?

Answer 1

I'm not aware of any Jenkins plugin that is capable of receiving e-mails.

If you can manage to store the notifications' content in a file you could use the Text-finder Plugin in the Post-build Actions of an additional monitor job that runs on a regular basis.

Have a look at Monitoring external jobs , too, whether this is useful for you.

UPDATE:

There is actually a plugin that receives e-mails: the poll-mailbox-trigger-plugin . Install it and do the following:

• Create a new Freestyle project named eg Build Status Mail Monitor

  • Build Triggers → [✔] [Poll Mailbox Trigger] - Poll an email inbox

    • configure as desired

  • Build → Add build step → Execute Groovy script

    • ◉ Groovy command: add code to change build launcher job's status