Get started with Jira Service Management for admins
Your first stop for learning how to get started with Jira Service Management.
You can set up a service project email address, so you can capture requests from customers who email your team with a question, incident report, or anything else in a single place.
Requests that are sent to your service project’s email address are automatically added to your queues, so your team can focus on customers without worrying about missing requests or managing multiple inboxes.
How do customers send requests by email?
Customers can send messages to your service project email address, which become requests.
Add a custom email account
Add a custom email address that you can send to customers to start using right away.
What are customer permission settings for email requests?
Check your customer permissions before you share your email address with your customers.
How does Jira Service Management process email requests?
Jira Service Management uses a built-in processor to receive and process issue requests from emails.
Email process for POP, IMAP, cloud, and other email types
Jira Service Management processes different emails differently, depending on the email account (POP, IMAP, cloud address).
Change how emails are processed across service projects
There are email settings for all service projects that you can change.
Test your custom email channel connection
Learn how to test the connection between Jira Service Management and your custom email account.
Change how you process emails in global mail settings
You can temporarily adjust the global email settings to troubleshoot your email channel.
Manage your allowlist
Add trusted domains to your allowlist so that their messages are always received.
About email logs in Jira Service Management
Learn about email processing and connectivity logs in Jira Service Management.
Add request participants through email
When customers send requests through email, they can share it with other people.
Allow external emails to be added as comments on issues
Allow emails with a valid issue key to be added as a comment to the issue.
Choose suitable request type for connected email accounts
Select a suitable request type for your connected email accounts to easily filter requests in the required queues.
Create new accounts through email
Site admins can define how new accounts are created via To or CC fields in emails.
Disable all email requests to the email channel
Learn how to disable all email requests to the email channel.
Hide email signatures from the issue view and portals
Hide email signatures so they don’t appear in the description or comments of an issue.
Manage DMARC authentication for incoming emails
Learn how to enable or disable DMARC authentication for incoming emails.
Manage your blocklist
Add domains and email addresses to your blocklist to prevent their messages from being received.
Receive requests from multiple email addresses in your project
Read how you can receive requests from multiple email addresses in a single service project.
Switch your Microsoft and Google email accounts to OAuth
Learn how to switch your Google or Microsoft email accounts from Basic Authentication to Open Authorization (OAuth).
View the email processing and connectivity logs
Learn how to view the incoming email processing and connectivity logs for any potential problems.
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