Less chatty emails from Bitbucket

Question

Have recently set up a new server hosting Bitbucket and it works just fine. Have also configured an email server so that we can send emails for all the events triggered in Bitbucket. I did however not foresee the chattiness of Bitbucket since it includes a lot of sensitive information that we don't want to be part of the mail.

Is there a way to determine what to include in mail sent from Bitbucket?

I have done this in JIRA by editing som of the files used as templates for events in JIRA. Do I have to do the same in Bitbucket or is there a smoother way?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Regards

Kent Granstrom

KentGran · Answer

Thanks Ben!

Still think it is a bit over the top having to install a plugin to configure what comes in an email notification.

Ben Stuart · Answer

Hey Kent,

You can also try a plugin like Notifyr - Notifications for Bitbucket which gives you an option to remove code I believe.

Regards,
Ben

Felipe Kraemer · Answer

Hello @KentGran,

In the public facing issue BSERV-4747 our development team decided not to allow using email templates, so the email notifications sent by Bitbucket Server cannot be customized.

Your best option is to add the issue you've found, BSERV-9893, to your watch list and add your feedback there. This will make our development team prepare a solution that best matches your needs.

It might be possible to download Bitbucket Server source code if your license allows doing that, then and customize email notifications someway (maybe other people can help clarifying that in this thread, because I am not sure which source should be modified), but please bear in mind that customized instances (or built from source) are not supported.

Regards,

Felipe