How to globally disable e-mail notifications with page content
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Summary
This article can only be implemented in Confluence versions between 5.5.0 - 7.2.0. Newer versions will not have the option to disable the relevant System modules.
If users prefer to keep all e-mail notification features but prefer not to receive any notifications regarding page content such as:
Page creation
Page edited
Page moved
Page deleted
Comment deleted
The Confluence administrator will need to disable some modules which will be described in detail below.
The steps below are intended to disable those types of notifications globally, for all users - this can't be done for a single or group of users.
Solution
Steps
Navigate to the Confluence administrators menu
Navigate to the "Manage Add-on" menu
Choose "System Plugins" from the drop-down list
Find and click the "Confluence Content Notification" plugin
Click the "<Number> of <Number> Modules enabled" button
From there, find and disable the following modules
page-created-notification
page-edited-notification
page-moved-notification
page-trashed-notification
For page delete action, please ensure that you've done the following steps as well to disable the email notifications:
1. Access the Confluence Dark Features page in your instance through the URL below
1<confluence_baseURL>/admin/darkfeatures.action2. Enable the following dark feature in your Confluence instance by adding it through the provided text box and then click *Submit*:
1notification.plugin.api.enabled.com.atlassian.confluence.event.events.content.page.async.PageTrashedEvent
To disable comment deletion e-mails, find and click the "Confluence Email Notifications Plugin" plugin
Click the "<Number> of <Number> Modules enabled" button
From there, find and disable the following module
notification-templates-comment-remove-1.0.0
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