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You need to be a space administrator to manage mail accounts for a space. See Space Permissions.
Confluence will import mail from these POP/IMAP mail accounts into the space's mail archive.
To manage mail accounts:
Go to the 'Mail Accounts' view:
The information on this page does not apply to Confluence Cloud.
Confluence mail archiving is an optional feature. This means that the 'Mail' options may be disabled and will therefore not appear in the Confluence user interface. Mail archiving features are contained in a bundled plugin. To activate mail archiving features in Confluence, enable the plugin – choose > General Configuration > Manage Add-ons. Then choose System in the drop down, and enable the Confluence Mail Archiving Plugin.