Customize Comment Notification Emails with @mentions in Confluence

James Roberts

We have recently upgrade to Confluence 4.3.7 and have changed the comment notification so that the email only notifies the user that a comment was made and none of the actual comment content comes through in the email notification. This is working fine, except in the case where the comment contains an @mention of a user in the comment itself. If that is done then the entire comment content comes through in the email. Is there any way to change the configuration so that the comment content does not get sent in the email notification no matter what the comment content contains?

Any help would be appreciated.

Mirko Skramusky [Communardo]

Hi James,

As far as I can see you cannot change this by configuration. There are some comment-added/edited/removed-notification.vm's which define the content of this notifications mails. You have to change the email templates in the confluence application core, because there is no check for any configuration within this templates.

Hope this helps, even it's not a real positive answer.

Re to your comment:

Yes, you are right. Unfortunately the functionality of mentions managed by an extra system plugin "Confluence Mentions". Within this Plugin, you can find the html-email-notification-template.vm defining the mail content.