A task to send SMTP email. This task can send mail using either plain text, uu encoding or Mime format mail depending on what is available. Attachments may be sent using nested fileset elements.
Attribute | Description | Required |
from | Email address of sender. | Either a from attribute, or a <from>
element. |
tolist | Comma-separated list of recipients. | At least one of these, or the equivalent elements. |
cclist | Comma-separated list of recipients to carbon copy | |
bcclist | Comma-separated list of recipients to carbon copy | |
message | Message to send in the body of the email. | One of these or a
<message> element. |
messagefile | File to send as the body of the email. | messagemimetype | The content type of the message. The default is
text/plain . |
No |
files | Files to send as attachments to the email. Separate multiple
file names using a comma. You can also use <fileset>
elements to specify files. |
No |
failonerror | flag to indicate whether to halt the build on
any error. The default value is true . |
No. |
includefilenames | Include filename(s) before file contents.
Valid only when the plain encoding is used. The default
value is false . |
No |
mailhost | Host name of the SMTP server. The default value is
localhost . |
No |
mailport | TCP port of the SMTP server. The default value is 25. | No |
encoding | Specifies the encoding to use for the content of the email.
Values are mime , uu , plain , or
auto . The default value is auto . |
No |
subject | Email subject line. | No |
Adds an email address element. It takes the following attributes:
Attribute | Description | Required |
name | The display name for the address. | No |
address | The email address. | Yes |
Specifies the message to include in the email body. It takes the following attributes:
Attribute | Description | Required |
src | The file to use as the message. | No |
mimetype | The content type to use for the message. | No |
If the src
attribute is not specified, then text can be added
inside the <message>
element.
<mail from="me" tolist="you" subject="Results of nightly build" files="build.log" />
Sends an email from me to you with a subject of Results of nightly build and includes the contents of the file build.log in the body of the message.
<mail mailhost="smtp.myisp.com" mailport="1025" subject="Test build"> <from name="me@myisp.com"> <to name="all@xyz.com"> <message>A new nightly build has completed</message> <fileset dir="dist"> <includes name="**/*.zip"/> </fileset> </mail>
Sends an eMail from me@myisp.com to all@xyz.com with a subject of Test Build and attaches any zip files from the dist directory. The task will attempt to use JavaMail and fall back to UU encoding or no encoding in that order depending on what support classes are available.
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