To enable Confluence to send email notifications, a Confluence administrator must set up a mail server in the Administration Console.

Follow these instructions to configure Confluence to send email messages:

1. Set up a mail server at 'Confluence Admin' -> 'Mail Servers'. See Configuring a Server for Outgoing Mail.
2. Click 'Send Test Email' to check that the server is working. Check that you get the test email in your inbox.

Now test that the notifications are working:

1. Go to your user profile (using the 'Settings' link) and edit your email preferences.
2. Enable 'Notify On My Actions'. (By default, Confluence does not send you notifications for your own changes. See Subscribing to Email Notifications of Updates to Confluence Content.)
3. Go to a page you wish to get notifications about.
4. Open the 'Tools' menu and click 'Watch'. See Watching a Page or Blog Post.
5. Edit the page.
6. Wait a while for the email to arrive, or flush the email queue to send it immediately. (Go to 'Confluence Admin'-> 'Mail Queue' and click 'Flush Mail Queue'. See The Mail Queue.
7. Check your email.

For instructions on configuring user-level email notifications, see Tracking Updates to Confluence Pages and Spaces.

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Tracking Updates to Confluence Pages and Spaces