This page last changed on Sep 08, 2011 by pwatson.

To enable Confluence to send email notifications, an email server must be configured, and the user must set up email notifications.

A Confluence administrator must configure an email server in the Administration Console, as follows:

  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.

A user can test that notifications are working, as follows:

  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 Watching Changes.

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Watching Changes

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