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2.5.15.13. MailNotifier

class buildbot.reporters.mail.MailNotifier

fromaddr

The email address to be used in the ‘From’ header.

sendToInterestedUsers

(boolean). If True (the default), send mail to all of the Interested Users. Interested Users are authors of changes and users from the owners build property. Override MailNotifier getResponsibleUsersForBuild method to change that. If False, only send mail to the extraRecipients list.

extraRecipients

(list of strings). A list of email addresses to which messages should be sent (in addition to the InterestedUsers list, which includes any developers who made Changes that went into this build). It is a good idea to create a small mailing list and deliver to that, then let subscribers come and go as they please.

generators

(list). A list of instances of IReportGenerator which defines the conditions of when the messages will be sent and contents of them. See Report Generators for more information.

relayhost

(string, deprecated). The host to which the outbound SMTP connection should be made. Defaults to ‘localhost’

smtpPort

(int). The port that will be used on outbound SMTP connections. Defaults to 25.

useTls

(boolean). When this argument is True (default is False), MailNotifier requires that STARTTLS encryption is used for the connection with the relayhost. Authentication is required for STARTTLS so the arguments smtpUser and smtpPassword must also be specified.

useSmtps

(boolean). When this argument is True (default is False), MailNotifier connects to relayhost over an encrypted SSL/TLS connection. This configuration is typically used over port 465.

smtpUser

(string). The user name to use when authenticating with the relayhost. Can be a Secret.

smtpPassword

(string). The password that will be used when authenticating with the relayhost. Can be a Secret.

lookup

(implementer of IEmailLookup). Object which provides IEmailLookup, which is responsible for mapping User names (which come from the VC system) into valid email addresses.

If the argument is not provided, the MailNotifier will attempt to build the sendToInterestedUsers from the authors of the Changes that led to the Build via User Objects. If the author of one of the Build’s Changes has an email address stored, it will added to the recipients list. With this method, owners are still added to the recipients. Note that, in the current implementation of user objects, email addresses are not stored; as a result, unless you have specifically added email addresses to the user database, this functionality is unlikely to actually send any emails.

Most of the time you can use a simple Domain instance. As a shortcut, you can pass as string: this will be treated as if you had provided Domain(str). For example, lookup='example.com' will allow mail to be sent to all developers whose SVN usernames match their example.com account names. See master/buildbot/reporters/mail.py for more details.

Regardless of the setting of lookup, MailNotifier will also send mail to addresses in the extraRecipients list.

extraHeaders

(dictionary). A dictionary containing key/value pairs of extra headers to add to sent e-mails. Both the keys and the values may be an Interpolate instance.

watchedWorkers

This is a list of names of workers, which should be watched. In case a worker goes missing, a notification is sent. The value of watchedWorkers can also be set to all (default) or None. You also need to specify an email address to which the notification is sent in the worker configuration.

dumpMailsToLog

If set to True, all completely formatted mails will be dumped to the log before being sent. This can be useful to debug problems with your mail provider. Be sure to only turn this on if you really need it, especially if you attach logs to emails. This can dump sensitive information to logs and make them very large.