Update on Jira email notifications

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Naved Anjum
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March 4, 2020

Can someone please remove me from Watcher list? I couldn't find the way to do it myself please.

Geraud Delarquier
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March 4, 2020

Agreed with these suggestions:

- Batch notifications in one mail at the end of the day

- As an admin understand what notifications have been turned off per user to be able to follow-up through different channels (I expect people to know when I mention them, so this being un-ticked without me knowing would be detrimental)

- Or alternatively as a user, when mentioning someone, be aware that they have that turned off

Philippa
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March 4, 2020

I log a lot of tickets that others work on - I think it is great that I can turn off notifications for tickets that I have logged and want nothing more to do with.

 

Re. watching this issue - if update a ticket with a customer comment / email etc I am then automatically watching the ticket.

 

If I have already 'unwatched' a ticket I don't want to be automatically re-added just because I add a comment. I do this many times a day and is really frustrating. 

rarmour March 4, 2020

Marko Jansen has hit the nail on the head.

The issue is not being able to 'unsubscribe' from notifications, but to manage the volume that are being sent in the first place.


Pablo Ortuño Salmerón
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March 4, 2020

<3 Finally! thanks   guys

Malka
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March 4, 2020

As the scrum master and creator of many sub tasks in Planning ceremonies. I don't necessarily care about every update, comment, etc. On each one for every team I facilitate during the sprint.  

Office 365 does a shite job of filtering jira emails out these days with their rules.

So I am on board for:

  1. a daily digest by board or team since we have portfolio. 
  2. Turning off emails where I'm the reporter unless I'm mentioned in the latest action. 
  3. Daily digest by project
  4. [n] time length digest by team or project
Summer Hogan
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March 4, 2020

Thanks!

Eric Johnson
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March 4, 2020

Even with these controls I still get a ton of email from Jira, and I don't care about most of it.  The things I want to be notified about for the tickets I'm following is when:

  • A ticket is assigned to me
  • A ticket that was assigned to me is assigned to someone else
  • Comments are added
  • The ticket is closed
  • A ticket that is assigned to me is moved to a different sprint

 

The things I don't want to be notified about for the tickets I'm following is when:

  • A ticket that isn't assigned to me is assigned to someone else
  • The size of the ticket changes
  • A ticket that isn't assigned to me is moved to a different sprint
Coco Torres
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March 4, 2020

Hi - since the update, I haven't been receiving any emails at all. I checked the settings, and all 4 boxes are checked. Am I missing something?

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March 4, 2020

Hi @Coco Torres  I suggest you raise a ticket with our support.

Rithu Rajendranath
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March 4, 2020

Upvoting daily digest and batching of notifications.

mythili
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March 4, 2020

Thanks for all your valuable feedback. We are exploring some concepts around batching & daily summary. I will update the community once we have some rough timelines on when this functionality would land in Jira. 

Gary Smith March 4, 2020

Would it be possible to restrict notification based on the type of change instead - for example, updating a worklog or epic is not something I am interested in, but a comment on an issue definitely is.

farzan.maghami
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March 4, 2020

I currently just filter out all emails from JIRA, they are a real nuisance and not well thought through. I don't have time to read 30 emails each day about updates that may or may not be important to me, I'm glad JIRA introduced this.

Dipak Naokar
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March 5, 2020

I agree with Sameer Gupta (his comments copied below):

 The feature where the user gets an option to control the frequency of emails every few hours/daily in a digest form would be much useful. Very often I get 100s of notifications in a matter of few hours, which leads of inbox getting completely flooded. This will help mitigate that issue

Jonny Ramsden
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March 5, 2020

Seconding Zoltan's comment:

The main spam killer I can think of would be to be able to stop sending emails that get generated when a sprint is closed and the tickets get moved.

Perhaps you could reinstate that feature at some point by making an email that says

"Sprint blah was closed.

These tickets have been moved to sprint blahblah:

* ticket 1

* ticket 2

etc...

"

instead of sending out an email per ticket

Julian Peña Asmus
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March 5, 2020

+ 1 for the batch notification that can be configured for custom intervals or update types (e.g. send one email every 2h OR even better, send me an email straight away when a ticket status changes or a new comment is posted but when it's contents' changes condense them into 1 email every 2h)

Alma Hernandez
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March 5, 2020

I do not like how it sends notifications for every small change made within one comment in a matter of minutes, for example someone going back and fixing a typo. or adding to comment, I feel most would just work off ticket itself not email info. 

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March 6, 2020

nice to get these updates. Thanks !

Vivienne.smith
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March 12, 2020

I'm with the group here, allowing users to choose which they receive will mean a large percentage of users will disable most if not all notifications. The idea of a summary report would be much more useful and more likely to be read than the current process

David Godley
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March 18, 2020

Is there a way that I, as an administrator can check to see if a Service Desk customer has opted out of notifications?  Is there a way that they can opt back in?  Is there a way that I as an administrator can opt them back in on their behalf?

This very morning I received my first service desk customer complaint that they have stopped receiving notifications and as far as I can tell I have no way to determine if they opted out, and if they did to give them instructions on how to opt back in.

Its also troubling from a UX perspective that the opt-out process appears to be one step from a notification email - there appears to be no "are you sure" step so that all it takes is an accident click on the opt out link in the email, next thing you know you are opted out of notifications and appear to have no means to turn it back on if you changed your mind or opted out by accident.

Janet Courtney April 6, 2020

When will this ability to manage notifications be available? 

At this time, we have opposite issue - JIRA is not sending any notifications to our users unless they have specified themselves as watchers.  They should automatically receive email on any issue they are mentioned, as an Assignee or Reporter, but they are not. 

Arjoon Som
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May 10, 2020

Hello Everyone,

We are happy to announce that the ability to customize the configuration of email notifications on next-gen projects is now available on all JSW and JSD next-gen projects. 

More details can be found at https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Announcement-Project-Level-Email-Notifications-for-next-gen/ba-p/1374538

We hope this enables our customers to further optimize which email notifications are sent out to users and we look forward to your feedback.

 

Thank you!
Arjoon Som
Senior Product Manager

Nic Walmsley
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May 23, 2020

I'm interested in the Notifications I can see when I select the Bell at the top right of Jira. Can that list be added to the "My Work" view? 

I also second the idea above, you should be able to roll up email notifications for a single Jira. So if 16 changes to a Jira in 8 hours, I get 1 email about the 16 changes, not 16 emails. 

Matt
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June 6, 2020

Hi, we have a problem with these settings. Notifications are enabled. Afaik we use new Jira free edition, and notifications configured from schemas are not working (basically we don't receive any emails at all despite settings being enabled). Can somebody look at this issue please? Thank you.

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