Documentation for JIRA 4.2. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.
JIRA can send email notifications to users when significant events occur.
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To enable email notifications in JIRA,
It is possible to customise your email content. The email address from which notifications are sent can also be configured for each project.
To disable email notifications for a project, you can remove the notification scheme from the project by editing the project and selecting 'None' as the project's notification scheme.
Alternatively, you can edit the notification scheme so that no emails are sent.
It is possible to configure the project email address that notifications are sent from. This will also serve as the reply address for responses, which can work in conjunction with Creating Issues and Comments from Email.
By setting the 'Sender' email address for a project, all notifications will be sent from this address. This setting is specific to the project selected and will not affect the configuration of the other projects. The default address specified in the SMTP Mail Server configuration is used as the default "sender" address for all projects.
The "sender" email address can be configured as follows:
This option is not accessible unless a SMTP Mail Server has been previously configured.
For each event notification, JIRA will only send the first encountered email intended for a recipient. Hence, in the case where a user is included in two or more recipient lists (e.g. Project Lead and Current Reporter) for one event notification, the user will only receive the first encountered email notification. JIRA will log the fact that this user was on multiple recipient lists.
Each JIRA user can specify in their Profile Preferences whether to send outgoing emails in text or HTML format; JIRA administrators can specify a defaut email format under 'User Defaults' in the Administration menu.
Since Jira 3.6.1, the HTML email format was improved to accomodate internationalised words in the 'Issue Details' section. However, due to Internet Security Settings, which prevent automatic download of images, the HTML e-mail may not be correctly formatted. For example, the summary column on the left may appear too wide. It is possible to correct the formatting by accepting to download these images. On some e-mail clients it is possible to do this in two different ways: