Disabling outgoing notifications

This recipe shows you how to completely prevent Jira from sending out emails. You may need to do this if you are performing testing, performing data migration, or cloning a new development instance, and do not want to flood users with hundreds of test notifications.

How to do it...

Go through the following steps to disable outgoing notifications in Jira:

1. Navigate to Administration > System > Outgoing Mail.
2. Click on the Disable Outgoing Mail button.

Once you have disabled outgoing mail, Jira will no longer send out notifications. If you want to re-enable outgoing mail, simply click on the Enable Outgoing Mail button, and Jira will start sending out emails again.

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