Symptoms

One or more of the symptoms below is observed:

• Users receive duplicate email notifications
• Users receive notifications for pages that they are not following
• Email subjects do not match content/page title

Cause

These behavior can be caused by the Descendent Notification Add-On and is a known issue.

Resolution

Disable this add-on.

Descendent Notification Add-On v3.0.2 (the latest version available) was last made compatible with Confluence 4.3.7. If you have this add-on enabled in Confluence 5.x, please disable it.

Adaptavist commercialized Descendent Notifications add-on is compatible with Confluence 5.1.x and was reported not to have the same problem. Please contact Adaptavist for more info.