Configuring Bamboo to send SMTP Email

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Bamboo can send email notifications about its build results. There are two steps to setting this up:

  1. Configure Bamboo to send SMTP email (see below).
  2. Configure a plan to send SMTP email notifications about build results (see Configuring notifications for a plan and its jobs).

Configuring Bamboo to send SMTP email

To configure Bamboo to send SMTP email:

  1. Click the  icon in the Bamboo header and choose Overview.
  2. Click Mail Server in the left navigation column (under 'Communication'). This will display the 'Mail Server Details' page (see screenshot below).
  3. Edit the mail server settings as necessary:

    SettingDescription
    NameA display-name for the email address e.g. 'SMTP Server'
    From AddressThe email address from which Bamboo notifications will be sent.
    Subject PrefixThe text (if any) which will be added to the start of the email subject line. For example '[Bamboo]' will result in emails with subjects like:
    • [Bamboo] TEST build 1,001 has FAILED (77 tests failed, no failures were new) : Change made by jsmith
    • [Bamboo] TEST build 1,002 was SUCCESSFUL (with 77 tests) : Change made by jsmith
    Email SettingsChoose either SMTP or JNDI. See the Notes about JNDI below.
    SMTP ServerThe address of the email server that Bamboo will use to send notifications e.g. 'mail.myserver.com'.
    UsernameThe login name of the account that Bamboo will use to login to the SMTP server.
    PasswordThe password of the account that Bamboo will use to login to the SMTP server.
    JNDI LocationDepends on your application server, and on the location of the 'mail' resource within the JNDI tree you specify. E.g. 'java:comp/env/mail/BambooMailServer'.
  4. Type a test email address in the Test Recipient Address box.
  5. Click Test, and verify that a test email is received.
  6. Click Save.

Screenshot: Email Server Details


Configuring email notifications for Gmail

Gmail.com uses TLS (SSL). A JNDI connector needs to be configured. Unfortunately Bamboo does not yet support JNDI with TLS.

To enable Gmail as your mail server:

  1. Install Bamboo.
  2. Add the following configuration to your BambooInstall/conf/server.xml file:

    <Context path="/bamboo" docBase="${catalina.base}/atlassian-bamboo" reloadable="true">
              <Resource name="mail/GmailSmtpServer"
                auth="Container"
                type="javax.mail.Session"
                mail.smtp.host="smtp.gmail.com"
                mail.smtp.port="465"
                mail.smtp.auth="true"
                mail.smtp.user="<your-name>@gmail.com"
                password="<your-pw>"
                mail.smtp.starttls.enable="true"
                mail.smtp.socketFactory.class="javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory"
              />
    </Context>
    


    Make sure that the javax.mail-X.X.X.jar file exists only in <Bamboo-Install>/lib.

  • If the javax.mail-X.X.X.jar file doesn't exist in the <Bamboo-Install>/lib directory, you must move the javax file installed at <Bamboo-Install>/atlassian-bamboo/WEB-INF/lib to <Bamboo-Install>/lib.
  • If the javax.mail-X.X.X.jar file already exists in the <Bamboo-Install>/lib directory, simply delete the javax file shipped with Bamboo in <Bamboo-Install>/atlassian-bamboo/WEB-INF/lib.

In Bamboo 5.9 the mail-X.X.jar and activation-X.X.jar files were included in the download archive. Starting with Bamboo 5.10:

  • the mail-X.X.jar file has been renamed to javax.mail-X.X.X.jar and must be moved to <Bamboo-Install>/lib
  • the activation.jar file is not required

 

Configure Bamboo to use a JNDI Location of  java:comp/env/mail/GmailSmtpServer. Note that the JNDI Location is case sensitive and must match the resource name specified in server.xml.

Notes

You can use a mail session as an alternative to specifying mail details directly in Bamboo. You configure the mail session in your application server (e.g. in the server.xml file — see Locating important directories and files), and then use JNDI to look up the preconfigured mail session. JNDI has the following advantages:

    • Centralized management - mail details are configured in the same place as database details, and may be configured through your application server administration tools.
    • Better security - mail details are not available to Bamboo administrators through the Bamboo interface, and aren't stored in Bamboo backup files.
    • More SMTP options - e.g. SSL. If you want to use SMTP over SSL you will need to use JNDI.
Last modified on Aug 16, 2016

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