![]() | Mail Archiving Features are Now Optional Confluence Mail Archiving is an optional feature from Confluence 4.1 onwards. This means that the Mail elements in the Confluence interface as mentioned on this page will not appear in the user interface by default. Mail archiving features are now contained in a bundled plugin. To activate mail archiving features in Confluence, activate the plugin from Confluence Admin > Configuration > Plugins > Show System Plugins > Confluence Mail Archiving Plugin. The user interface and functionality of the feature have not changed. |
No, Confluence cannot replace your regular mail client.
Confluence's mail archive is designed to supplement the way you currently handle email, not to replace it. This is why Confluence deliberately does not come with features common in email clients. For example, you can not mark emails as read or unread, you can not reply to emails from within Confluence, and so on.