8.2. Email Notification

Email notification is the most obvious and most common form of CI notification. Email is well-known, ubiquitous, easy to use and easy to configure (see Section 4.8). So, when teams set up their first Continuous Integration environment, it is usually the most common initial notification strategy they try.

You activate email notification in Jenkins by ticking the E-mail Notification checkbox and providing the list of email addresses of the people who need to be notified (see Figure 8-1). By default, Jenkins will send an email for every failed or unstable build. Remember, it will also send a new email for the first successful build after a series of failed or unstable builds, to indicate that the issue has been fixed.