SMTP Server Integration

You can configure Team Foundation Server to integrate with an SMTP server to send out e-mail notifications to users for specific events, such as when their work items are modified by another user or when a build completes.

Team Foundation Server and SMTP

For every project within Team Foundation Server, you can configure project alerts that will send e-mail alerts to users for specific event types, such as modification of work items. Team Foundation Server can send these alerts using any SMTP server already configured within your network infrastructure.

Team Foundation Server also includes an extensible notification infrastructure. Team Foundation includes a set of e-mail templates that support certain event types. You can use the extensibility tools of Team Foundation to add new e-mail event types.

Limitations

While you can set e-mail alerts for events within Team Foundation Server by choosing the Project Alerts option from the Team menu, these alerts will not work without manual configuration of an SMTP server to use. In order to configure the SMTP server, you must manually modify the web.config file using a plain-text editor.

See Also

Tasks

How to: Send Work Item Queries in E-Mail
How to: Receive Build Notification E-Mail