Working with outgoing mail
Like many settings in JIRA, you need to be a JIRA system administrator (the user created during the initial setup is a system administrator) to configure mail server details. Perform the following steps to manage the outgoing mail server:
Log in to JIRA as a JIRA administrator.
Browse to the JIRA administration console.
Select the System tab and then the Outgoing Mail option. This will bring up the Outgoing Mail page:
Note
You can have only one outgoing mail server in JIRA.
Adding an outgoing mail server
There are two ways of adding 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:
|
Field |
Description |
|
Name |
This specifies a name for the mail server. |
|
Description |
This specifies a brief description for the mail server. |
|
From address |
This specifies an e-mail address that outgoing e-mails will appear to have come from. |
|
Email prefix |
This specifies... |
