Customizing e-mail content

We have already seen how JIRA throws various events when something happens and how we can handle these events to do various things. One example includes sending e-mail notifications to users based on the notification schemes that are set up in JIRA. But what if we don't like the default content of JIRA notifications? What if we just want a different wording or maybe even need to amend the e-mail content?

In this recipe, we will see how we can customize e-mail content that is sent as a notification when an event is thrown in JIRA.

How to do it...

JIRA has a set of e-mail templates written using velocity and rendered when a notification is sent. For each event, a template is configured within JIRA and that template is used ...

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