I want to control which JIRA issues I watch, even those I create.

[Frank_Spafford]

I need the ability to stop receiving email notifications about some of the JIRA issues that I create. My account has no special privileges, so the approach must work with this condition.

Ideally I could stop or start watching an issue, regardless of the reporter.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Go to the issue and click the "stop watching" option under the watchers field.

You might want to consider going into your profile and turning off "autowatch"

[Frank_Spafford]

I am not watching the issue. Since I am the reporter, JIRA is sending email notifications to me. I can not stop them.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ah. Then you need to amend the notification scheme to tell it not to send mail to the reporter (although that will be a global change, affecting all users of the project), or change the reporter to someone else

[Frank_Spafford]

Yes, but the Gods that give out privileges have not chosen to give me the privileges necessary to effect those changes. So I continue to receive spam from JIRA.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's not spam, it's information that your administrators have decided to send to you (I really want to use the word "inflict" there, because although it's not *quite* spam, it's certainly unwanted). You'll need to have the discussion with them about changing it.

[Frank_Spafford]

Chuckle. Thanks for your time Nic.

[Rodrigo Girardi Adami]

In addition to Nic answer, here is the documentation to turn off the auto watch feature.

Cheers,

Rodrigo

[Frank_Spafford]

The page you reference is no longer there...

[Rodrigo Girardi Adami]

i'm not sure it was deleted but you can see the cached page by google in this link.

Cheers!