Actions - send Email on Success/Failure

[ghnp5]

Feature Description

On GitHub, I get emails every time a run succeeds or fails:

In Gitea, even though emails are set up (and working), I'm not getting any emails when a job runs (whether successful or failed).

Would it be possible to be able to set that up?

If that could be a setting in the YAML file, even better!

Thank you very much!

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[MrHaroldA]

I would like a more general 'event driven messaging system', as I also would like to get an email when a pull request is created, or when a pull request results in a merge conflict.

[GammaGames]

I needed notifications for job failures so I added this step to most of my workflows:

- name: Send mail
    if: failure()
    uses: https://github.com/dawidd6/action-send-mail@v3
    with:
        to: ${{ secrets.MAIL_TO }}
        from: Gitea <gitea@hostname>
        subject: ${{ gitea.repository }} ${{gitea.workflow}} ${{ job.status }}
        priority: high
        convert_markdown: true
        html_body: |
            ### Job ${{ job.status }}

            ${{ github.repository }}: [${{ github.ref }}@${{ github.sha }}](${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions)

I tried to create a link to the failed action by adding runs/${{ github.run_id }} to the url, but it didn't work

Edit: I also wasn't able to include the previous step's output in the message body. If anyone can figure that out, please share!

[ghnp5]

Thanks @GammaGames

How do you make it run this only at the end of the workflow, whether it was successful or failed?

If we don't make it dependent, it might run in parallel with the rest, but if we make it dependent, then only if everything else succeeds, the email will be sent.

Also, "success()", "failure()", etc, seem to be per Job, and not per Action/Workflow.

Or am I missing something? :)

Thank you!

[GammaGames]

How do you make it run this only at the end of the workflow, whether it was successful or failed?

You'd want to replace the if: failure() with if: always() (or if: !cancelled()). I always have the step last in my jobs

Also, "success()", "failure()", etc, seem to be per Job, and not per Action/Workflow.

According to the docs failure():

Returns true when any previous step of a job fails. If you have a chain of dependent jobs, failure() returns true if any ancestor job fails.

You might be able to set up a dependent job so you only have to add notification step once per workflow. So far my workflows have been relatively simple, so I haven't had the need to experiment with that

[ghnp5]

Hey

Thank you for the answers.

Yeah, failure() is true when any previous step of a job fails.

That's my problem. I have complex workflows with several jobs (using matrix strategy, etc), dependent on each other, etc...

So, I can't have a "final job" where I'd put if: failure(), because that simply won't run if any of the previous jobs of the workflow failed.

I believe the only way to get what I want is by Gitea implementing notifications for whether Actions have succeeded or failed.

[GammaGames]

I believe you are correct, having built-in notifications would be the best solution anyway. But for anyone else with simple workflows, my solution might work for now!

[silverwind]

Should be a per-user setting to get notified only for their own pushes:

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/managing-subscriptions-and-notifications-on-github/setting-up-notifications/configuring-notifications#github-actions-notification-options