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:
- Set up a mail server at 'Confluence Admin' > 'Mail Servers'. See Configuring a Server for Outgoing Mail.
- 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:
- Go to your user profile (using the 'Settings' link) and edit your email preferences.
- 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.)
- Go to a page you wish to get notifications about.
- Open the 'Tools' menu and click 'Watch'. See Watching a Page or Blog Post.
- Edit the page.
- 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.
- Check your email.
For instructions on configuring user-level email notifications, see Watching Changes.