Disabling outgoing notifications

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

How to do it...

Proceed with 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 mails, JIRA will no longer send out notifications.

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