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Customer Permissions - disabling account creation when Atlassian email is cc'd

Malee
Contributor
January 21, 2026

We have a help desk that responds to external users via Outlook and when they cc our Atlassian email to create the work item it auto creates an account for the email address that is the TO recipient for that email. I'm trying to configure our permissions so this doesn't happen. 

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Marc -Devoteam-
Community Champion
January 22, 2026

Hi @Malee 

Can you show a screenshot of you customer permissions on the JSM project and the global customers permissions.

Malee
Contributor
January 22, 2026

These are the space settings:

Screenshot 2026-01-22 135311.png

 

This is within the Jira admin settings:

Screenshot 2026-01-22 135241.png

Marc -Devoteam-
Community Champion
January 23, 2026

Hi @Malee 

But creating an account (customer) is default behaviour, as this will be the reporter of the ticket.

This can't be circumvented.

Malee
Contributor
January 23, 2026

We do not want External (outside of our company) to have access to our portals. Our helpdesk creates these tickets and are the reporters because they are fielding these help requests via email or phone call. I will reach out to Atlassian support for this. 

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John Funk
Community Champion
January 21, 2026

Hi Malee,

Without seeing your setup, what if you use the To for the Atlassian email and the CC for the customer? 

Malee
Contributor
January 22, 2026

Please see my reply to the above comment. :) 

John Funk
Community Champion
January 22, 2026

Have you tried my suggestion above?

Malee
Contributor
January 22, 2026

In the first image attached it outlines To and CC'ing will create user accounts (That just showed up today interestingly enough).

John Funk
Community Champion
January 23, 2026

You need to implement anonymous creation of tickets if you don't want accounts created. Would that apply across all JSM portals/projects? Or just this one? 

Malee
Contributor
January 23, 2026

We don't want anonymous creation, we do not want anyone external accessing our portals. Only accounts we've created ourselves either through Azure syncing or manual invitation. 

 

John Funk
Community Champion
January 23, 2026

Well, you have posed two competing scenarios that Jira is not capable of doing. It is either anonymous for ticket submissions and no account is required. Or an account must be established for each unique individual submitting tickets. 

Malee
Contributor
January 23, 2026

We do it on a daily basis, sometimes users just don't remove the other emails when forwarding to Jira so I was trying to eliminate the ability. I will reach out to support to inquire further. 

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