How do I attach a build log to an e-mail notification with the Jenkins plugin Email-ext?

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Steve HHH picture Steve HHH · Dec 19, 2011 · Viewed 33k times · Source

Version 2.15 of Jenkins plug-in Email-ext added support for attaching files to build notification e-mails. I would like to have the build log attached to build notification e-mails, but I can't figure out how to do it.

The build log appears to be stored on the Jenkins master node (in this case, Ubuntu Linux). For example, /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/<PROJECT_NAME>/builds/<DATE_TIME>/log. Naturally, the build log path changes with every build. The Email-ext file attachment feature defaults to using files from within the project workspace, which is on the Jenkins slave build machine (in this case, Mac OS X). For example, I configured my slave to use the folder /Users/<USERNAME>/Jenkins/build_agent/workspace/<PROJECT_NAME>/.

Is there any way to get Email-ext to attach a file from the master's file system, instead of the workspace on the slave build machine?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer some advice. The Email-ext wiki page currently does not contain an example of how to configure attachments.

Answer

vladisld picture vladisld · Dec 19, 2011

You may just use ${BUILD_LOG, maxLines, escapeHtml} token in the body of the e-mail to include the build log.

Quoting the email-ext plugin doc (available here):

"To see a list of all available email tokens and what they display, you can click the "?" (question mark) associated with the Content Token Reference at the top bottom of the email-ext section on the project configuration screen"

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