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I had a sensitive SVN repository, where I want to get notification of each commit as an email to my Google Apps email address. There are a few post commit hooks available for SVN but they did not satisfy my requirements as they use sendmail to send email and I want to use secure SMTP provided by Google apps. So, I changed the example python script a little bit. Here are a few steps to achieve this functionality:

1. Get the example mailer script from:
   http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/tools/hook-scripts/mailer/
   and save to some place like: /usr/share/subversion/hook-scripts/mailer/
2. Rename the “mailer.conf.example” to “mailer.conf”
3. Edit the mailer.conf
   • Uncomment the line smtp_hostname = localhost
     and change it to smtp_hostname = smtp.gmail.com
   • Uncomment smtp_username = example and change example with YOURNAME@YOURDOMAIN.com
   • Uncomment smtp_password = example and change example with your real password.
   • Add following two lines:
     smtp_port = 587
     smtp_use_tls = 1
   • Set the from_addr, to_addr and reply_to variables.
   • Add the map settings if you want (optional)
4. Edit the file mailer.py
   Modify the finish method of SMTPOutput class and replace it with following code:

       server = smtplib.SMTP(self.cfg.general.smtp_hostname,
                      self.cfg.general.smtp_port)
       if self.cfg.is_set('general.smtp_username'):
         server.ehlo()
         if self.cfg.general.smtp_use_tls:
         	server.starttls()
         	server.ehlo()
         server.login(self.cfg.general.smtp_username,
                      self.cfg.general.smtp_password)
       server.sendmail(self.from_addr, self.to_addrs, self.buffer.getvalue())
       server.rset()
       server.quit()

5. Now goto “hooks” directory in your repository and make a new file as “post-commit”
6. Chmod “post-commit” to 755
7. Edit the “post-commit” and enter following contents:

   #!/bin/sh
   REPOS="$1"
   REV="$2"
   /usr/share/subversion/hook-scripts/mailer/mailer.py commit "$REPOS" \
   "$REV" /usr/share/subversion/hook-scripts/mailer/mailer.conf

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