Manually sending e-mails

Sometimes, you, as the administrator, may need to send out e-mails containing important messages to a wide audience. For example, if you are planning some maintenance work that will take JIRA offline for an extended period of time, you may want to send out an e-mail to all JIRA users to let them know of the outage.

JIRA has a built-in facility, where you can manually send out e-mails to specific groups of users. There are two options when manually sending e-mails—you can either send it based on groups or by projects.

When sending by groups, all you have to do is select one or more groups in JIRA, and all users that belong to the selected groups will receive the e-mail. Users belonging to more than one group will not get ...

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