Devops Tutorial 31 – Setup Jenkins pipeline Email
On the Jenkins dashboard, you would see ‘Manage Jenkins’
Click ‘Manage Jenkins’
Click ‘Configure System’ seen above.
Scroll down, you would see ‘E-mail Notification’ section shown below
Enter smtp.gmail.com in SMTP server field
Click ‘Advanced’ that you see above
The below additional fields would come up
Select the checkbox ‘Use SMTP Authentication’
Enter gmail id and password (you can create a dummy gmail account and use it here)
Select ‘Use SSL’ checkbox
Enter SMTP port as 465
Select ‘Test configuration by sending test e-mail‘ checkbox
Enter any email id
Click ‘Test configuration’
You might get the below error
To resolve this error, login to above gmail account (log out from other gmail accounts).
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Once you are logged in, launch below url
https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
Switch ON the below setting
Click ‘Test configuration’ again, you should now see the below message ‘Email was successfully sent’
Open the above gmail account, you would see a new email as shown below
Click Save to save the configuration
Let us now write jenkins pipeline code for sending email notifications.
Create new pipeline job 
Click ‘Pipeline Syntax’ link
Select ‘mail: Mail’ from dropdown as shown below
Enter email id in the ‘To’ field
Enter subject and Body
Click ‘Generate Pipeline Script’ 
Copy this code:
mail bcc: '', body: 'Hello, This is an email from jenkins pipeline.', cc: '', from: '', replyTo: '', subject: 'EmailJenkinsPipeline', to: 'sskg12035@gmail.com'
Paste it in the pipeline code as shown below
Below is the entire code:
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage('Email Jenkins Pipeline') {
steps {
mail bcc: '', body: 'Hello, This is an email from jenkins pipeline.', cc: '', from: '', replyTo: '', subject: 'EmailJenkinsPipeline', to: 'sskg12035@gmail.com'
}
}
}
}
Paste this code in jenkins pipeline job
Apply and Save
Click ‘Build Now’
Wait for the job to get over
Refresh the gmail account, you would see an email
Once you are done, change back the security settings
https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
Thank you for reading!
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