Working with outgoing mail

Like many settings in Jira, you need to be a Jira system administrator (the user that's created during the initial setup is a system administrator) to configure mail server details. Perform the following steps to manage the outgoing mail server:

1. Log in to Jira as a Jira system administrator.
2. Browse to the Jira administration console.
3. Select the System tab and then the Outgoing Mail option. This will bring up the Outgoing Mail page:

You can have only one outgoing mail server in Jira.

Adding an outgoing mail server

There are two ways to add an outgoing mail server in Jira. Both options have some common configuration parameters that you will need to fill in. The following table shows these parameters...