Working with outgoing mails

JIRA will only let you set up one outgoing mail server that will be used as the primary mail server to send out e-mails.

Unlike 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:

  1. Log in to JIRA as a JIRA administrator.
  2. Click on Administration in the top menu bar.
  3. Select Outgoing Mail under the Mail section:
    Working with outgoing mails

Adding an outgoing mail server

There are two ways of adding an outgoing mail server in JIRA, but before you get to that, regardless of which ...

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