What is the correct way to send emails from within a plugin?

[Brett Ryan]

I would like to know the correct way to create email entries in a plugin s to send the emails to recipient addresses.

I have a job and trigger that need to send a status report at the end of each execution.

[Dieter · Accepted solution]

Please find a Confluence sample at https://bitbucket.org/mryall/atlascamp-demo-plugin/src/3492a83f46f3/src/main/java/com/atlassian/atlascamp/demo/AdminActionFilter.java

There is also a good JIRA example at https://bitbucket.org/jamieechlin/scriptrunner-public/src/7c7cb23511a2/src/main/resources/com/onresolve/jira/groovy/canned/workflow/postfunctions/SendCustomEmail.groovy Just look at method doScript

[Dieter]

That way emails are queued in Jiras mail queue which also does error handling

[Dieter]

Ooops, soory. This answer is for Jira plugins only

[Dieter]

Here's an example for confluence: https://bitbucket.org/mryall/atlascamp-demo-plugin/src/3492a83f46f3/src/main/java/com/atlassian/atlascamp/demo/AdminActionFilter.java

[Brett Ryan]

Excellent, update the answer for me and I'll accept, but keep both links :)

Out of interest, do you know if there is a document on developer.atlassian.com which describes these processes? I couldn't find such a document myself and may create one at a later date.

[Dieter]

Can't find anything else on d.a.c, just google reveals some more useful links from other sites, e.g. http://www.pixsoftware.nl/en/plugins/122-k15t/2245-sending-email-from-confluence-plugins written by my friends from k15t

[Mizan]

Hi @Dieter ,

Can we send email to someone who is not a Jira user ? using https://bitbucket.org/jamieechlin/scriptrunner-public/src/7c7cb23511a2/src/main/resources/com/onresolve/jira/groovy/canned/workflow/postfunctions/SendCustomEmail.groovy ?

[JamieA]

Yes, the code above handles that.

[Mizan]

Thanks Jamie .

[Dieter]

thank's all, guys. Never earned that much karma with a single answer :-)

[MattS]

The thing I've found is that if someone is not a JIRA user, their email address may be outside your organization. And mail servers don't always relay email to non-local domain addresses.

[Brett Ryan]

Hi Matt. Plugins shouldn't be concerned with limitations imposed on a mail server. Such a configuration sounds very limiting. Even if that user was a JIRA user the email server in question would still have issues if the mail address was not of the company domain.

[Diogo Miguel]

Hi @Mizan,

The link don't working, can you put another link or a PDF with the information in the link?

Thanks.

[Mizan]

Hi Diogo ,

The link leads to a source code and is working .

I want to know whether it is possible to send email the issue to someone who is not a jira user based on some event .

Thank you

[Diogo Miguel]

Yes it is working, i don't know what happens to don't work at the first time.

Thanks.