Sending notifications for issue updates

The other major use of outgoing mails is for Jira to automatically send out notifications about changes to issues. For example, if an issue has been updated, you would want the issue's reporter and assignee to be notified of the change.

In this recipe, we will look at how to set up notification rules so that interested parties are notified of any changes to their issues.

Getting ready

You must first configure an outgoing mail server for Jira. Refer to the Setting up an outgoing mail server recipe for more details.

How to do it...

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