Email requests and Jira Service Management notifications not received

Platform Notice: Cloud Only - This article only applies to Atlassian apps on the cloud platform.

Summary

Learn how to resolve issues with customer email requests not being delivered to your JSM project and how to restore notifications.

Solution

Outcome

Next Action

Email connection failing

Follow the Resolve Email Channel Problems in Jira Service Management Cloud

Customer emails are not creating tickets

Verify the sender has permission to email the project

Ticket created but missing Summary/Description

Check default request type has both fields set to visible

Fewer emails pulled than sent (debug log mismatch)

Identify and disable the competing mail handler/instance

Email puller is off

Enable it in Global mail settings

Email puller on, Office 365, ticket not created

Resize attachment to under 2MB

AOL sender, emails rejected

Ask the requester to use a non-AOL email address

Email exists in the mailbox but has not been processed

Mark the email as Unread and monitor the processing log

  1. Check the email connection.

  2. Verify that the customer has permission to email your Service Management project.

  3. Verify that the default request type for the email channel has the Summary and Description fields visible.

  4. Verify if another Jira instance email channel/mail handler is intercepting mail items intended for the target instance.

    • With debug logging enabled for incoming mail, you should see a "found x messages for processing" message each time the mail puller runs.

    • If you don't see a matching quantity of mail items pulled for processing to what was sent to the mailbox, there may be something else pulling the email before the target instance can.

  5. Verify that the Email puller is on in Global mail settings.

    • If the associated email inbox is in Office 365, it might be because an attachment in the request is larger than 2 MB.

      • This is a known issue with Office 365 - to resolve it, try resizing the attachment.

    • If the associated email is AOL, the AOL mail server might reject the mail.

      • This is because the Atlassian Cloud mail server is not a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN).

      • We recommend that you don't use AOL email addresses with your Service Management project.

  6. Verify if the email has already been read before the email processor tries to process the email.

  7. If yes, set the email back to "Unread" mode and monitor the processing log for the email to process successfully.

Updated on August 4, 2026

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