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Send E-mail after Creating a New Release in GitHub
Just a note for my future self
- Authors
- Name
- Nico Prananta
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In the company I work for, there are some team members who wanted to be notified when a new release is deployed to production. Since we use GitHub, I can easily set up a step in our GitHub Actions workflow to send an e-mail to the team member when a new release is created.
deploy.yml
name: Deploy to production websites
on:
workflow_dispatch:
release:
types: [created]
jobs:
deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Cancel Previous Runs
uses: styfle/cancel-workflow-action@0.9.1
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Updating release
run: |
echo "Release the new version"
# Do something like push to Vercel
- name: Send email
uses: dawidd6/action-send-mail@v3
with:
server_address: smtp.fastmail.com
server_port: 465
username: ${{ secrets.FASTMAIL_EMAIL }}
password: ${{ secrets.FASTMAIL_PASSWORD }}
subject: New Release of Our Awesome project
html_body: |
A new release has been published!
Release: ${{ github.event.release.name }}
Version: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
Link: ${{ github.event.release.html_url }}
Description:
${{ github.event.release.body }}
The Markdown in this email will be automatically converted to HTML.
to: member1@example.com,member2@example.com,myemail@example.com
from: myemail@example.com
convert_markdown: true
We use Fastmail in the company so I can just create a new App Password and add it to GitHub Secrets (FASTMAIL_EMAIL and FASTMAIL_PASSWORD) which is used by the "Send email" step above.