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In Confluence, you can easily share a Confluence page or blog post by e-mailing it to recipients of your choice.

E-mailing a link to a Confluence page or blog post

The 'Share' button provides a quick mechanism for e-mailing a link to a page or blog post to Confluence users or any e-mail addresses.

To e-mail a link to a Confluence page or blog post using the Share button:

  1. Go to the page or blog post you wish to share.
  2. Click Share at the top-right of the page. A popup for entering recipients and a note will appear.
    (info) The Share button will not be visible if your Confluence administrator has not configured an outgoing mail server for your Confluence site.
    If you want to enable this feature, please ask your Confluence administrator. Instructions for enabling this feature can be found here: Configuring a Server for Outgoing Mail.
  3. Enter the name or username of a Confluence user or any e-mail address to whom you wish to share the Confluence page. When you begin entering a name or username, or you have typed a valid e-mail address, an autocomplete dropdown will appear.
  4. Select the appropriate user or e-mail address from this dropdown. You can add multiple recipients to the list.



    (info) To remove a recipient from the list, click the 'bin' icon to the right of the recipient.
  5. Enter an optional message into the Note box.
  6. Click Share to send a link to the page with your note to the recipients listed on the popup.

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  1. Mar 03, 2009

    Hello,

    i don´t know if this is the right place here but i want to know if there is a possibility to send attachments without the need to save them first on the hard disk and than attach them to an Email.

    Can you give me an information how this can be realised?

    Thanks!

    1. Mar 05, 2009

      Hi Timo,

      As far as I am concerned, Confluence does not have the feature to send email with attachment. However, could you provide us with more information on which function you are using to send out mails, such as the Mail Page plugin or the [mailto] notation; perhaps, I can provide some suggestions.

      Cheers,
      Komathi

      1. Jul 01, 2009

        Anonymous

        Hi,

        I have the same need. I've not set up any way to send emails out yet and so am open to any suggestion.  What is the best\most flexible approach?

        Our situation is that we have 3 different apps all running (reverse proxy style) off port 443.  We therefore can not download attachments from Confluence.  But people need to be able to get attachments and I wondered if it is possible for a user to be able to send them out of Confluence via email, to themselves.

        Any advice is much appreciated.

        Thanks,

        Jeff

  2. Mar 24, 2009

    In the latest version of confluence, using the default style, the Tools dropdown now has an Email icon that you can click directly. That doesn't seem to be represented in the documentation here.

    1. May 06, 2009

      Hi,

      Yes, it is different indeed. The one that you are referring to is to watch the page. Thus, if there is any update on the page that you watch, you will be notified. Please refer to the following page for detail on watching page:

      Cheers,

  3. Aug 20, 2009

    Is it possible to include the comments added to a page into the mail text.

    Joachim

    1. Aug 24, 2009

      Hi Joachim,

      I am afraid that this is not currently possible. However, I have found a similar improvement request. Please add yourself as a watcher, vote for this improvement and add your own comments to this improvement request. For further details on how we include new features and improvements, you might want to read this page

      Hope that helps.

      Cheers
      JSashi

      1. Sep 10, 2010

        Anonymous

        Hello Sashi !!

        need u r assistance in jira.

        mail me at anandwaves@gmail.com

        reg / anand

        1. Sep 30, 2010

          Hi Anand,

          I would suggest you to raise a support ticket at https://support.atlassian.com, if you require any assistance in JIRA. Sorry for any inconveniences.

          Cheers
          JSashi

  4. Sep 30, 2009

    Is there any way to set the reply-to header? I'm confident that upon receiving email about a page, some of my customers will reply to the email sent, and I would love it if the confluence user who sent the email could get the reply.

    1. Mar 29, 2010

      I guess not.

  5. Jun 16, 2010

    Is there any plugin available which will allow me to email just the attachment from a page to an email address.

    i.e.

    I have a page with a form embedded into it and attached. I wish to send the form to an external customer who does not have access to my Intranet (confluence). How get I get the form to him, (without saving it to my desktop and using my desktop email client to send it.) as I have setup confluence to use our generic email account.

    1. Jul 26, 2010

      Hi Julien

      I am afraid that this is not currently possible. However, I have found a similar feature request. Please add yourself as a watcher, vote for this feature and add your own comments to this feature request. For further details on how we include new features and improvements, you might want to read this page

      Hope that helps.

      Cheers
      JSashi

  6. Nov 23, 2010

    Anonymous

    Hello Experts,

    I am facing strange issue with mailing pages. When I use mail having more characters wiki is not sending mails. The mail even doesn't exist in the mail queue.

    Is this a bug? Is there any restriction on number of mail characters?

    Appreciate your help.

    Regards,

    Naga Niranjan K

  7. Nov 23, 2010

    Hi

    When a page is emailed the recipients see the sender email address as comming from the Confluence global mail server address.

    Is there anyway that the sender email address can reflect that of the users registered email address?

    I appreciate that the sender details are contained in the body of the email message but users have expressed concern that the global mail server address could be mistaken as spam.

    Thanks in advance

    Steve

  8. May 05, 2011

    I have a question on the share feature.

    I have confluence pulling info from Active Directory. When I try the share feature and type a users name I don't get the full listing, for instance if I have 3 johns in AD I only get my name.

    Would this be because I am the only one that has logged into confluence? is there any way to get the full listing from AD or will I just have to type the users email address until they log into confluence?

  9. May 12, 2011

    Hi,

    I really like the Share feature, but I have come across one strange thing today.

    When typing a name in the "User name or email" field it behaves a little strangely.

    I have two persons named Doug in Confluence.

    • Doug Rank (douran)
    • Doug Mandell (dmandell)

    When I type "dou" in the field they are both suggested. When I type "doug", only Doug Mandell is suggested.  The only safe way to use the feature and get all matches seems to be to search only for the first three letters in the username. Searching for the whole first name or last name doesn't always give matches.

    Do you have any ideas about what is happening?

    Thanks for a great product!

    Erik

  10. Jun 03, 2011

    Anonymous

    Hi,

    Is there any way to remove the Share button from pages other than having an outgoing mail server for the Confluence site not configured.

    Thanks,

    Alex

    1. Jun 05, 2011

      Hi Alex,

      The feature is implemented as a plugin called "Share Page" - if you don't want your users to see the button, just disable the plugin. For instructions on how to disable a plugin, see Disabling or Enabling a Plugin.

      Cheers,
      Mark

      1. Sep 12, 2011

        Anonymous

        It would be better if the ability to share was controlled by permissions.

  11. Jun 16, 2011

    It would be nice if the Share functionality could accept a group name as the Mail Page functionality does.

    1. Feb 11, 2012

      Anonymous

      exactly! it's amazing that this functionality isn't present by default

    2. yesterday at 19:24:04

      We have an outstanding ticket for this at CONF-22430 . Please share your use case there and watch the issue for updates.

  12. Jul 06, 2011

    We have a wiki where authentication is required, but we also have public registration, so anybody can get access to the site. For the Share Page functionality is there any limit to the number of email addresses that can be entered or can the Note section be disabled? I would be worried about it being used by a malicious user to spam people.

    I also noticed if I turned on the spam prevention and did not exclude anybody (we usually exclude logged in users), that there was not a captcha for the Share Page form. So that is not even an option in this case.

  13. Oct 21, 2011

    Anonymous

    Hi,

    Is it possible to share a page to a group instead of the individual users? Or is enabling the "email page" plugin the only way?

    Thanks.

  14. Nov 02, 2011

    Anonymous

    if I search the "email page" plugin , the results show me :

    "This functionality has been superseded by the new "Share Page" feature in Confluence 4. This plugin will not be updated by Atlassian to be compatible with Confluence 4 or later"

    So, I need to share a page to a group instead of the individual users .  can i do it?

  15. Nov 02, 2011

    Anonymous

    I'm also interested on this functionality. How can one share a page with a group of users on Confluence 4?

  16. Nov 24, 2011

    How can an user share a page to a group of users, if this feature isn't available in Confluence 4? (sad)

    Please answer this question!

    1. Nov 28, 2011

      Hi Thomas, we're tracking this request at CONF-22430.

  17. Dec 03, 2011

    You can automate it via a REST call, awesome and so simple ;-)

    Implement a rest call by using your preferred language and use the following parameters:

    {
      "requestUrl":"baseurl/rest/share-page/latest/share",
      "requestMethod":"POST",
      "requestBody":"{\"users\":[\"USERIDS\"],\"emails\":[EMAILS],\"note\":\"MESSAGE\",\"entityId\":\"PAGEID\"}",
      "headers":["Content-Type","application/json; charset=utf-8",
                 "Accept-Charset","ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7",
                 "Accept","text/plain, */*",
                 "Authorization","Basic YYYYYY"]
    }

    Where:
    - USERIDS : List of userids defined within CITnet (comma separated)
    - EMAILS  : List of emails (comma separated)
    - MESSAGE : This message will appear within the email into a blue box
    - PAGEID  : The page id concerned by this email
    - YYYYYY  : The sender username/password hashed in Base64

  18. Dec 05, 2011

    I notice that there is a difference between the "Share" button and the old email page plugin. The former only sends a link to the shared content. The latter sends the content itself. Personally, I find the "Share" button to be about equivalent to me pasting a URL into an email message. The only difference is that the message is now prettier (or more bloated depending on your perspective).  

    I've been told by Atlassian that they won't carry forward the "email page" plugin in 4.x, so I'm wondering if there is any way to mail a page's content in 4.x?