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Patrick Li
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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and works as a senior engineer there, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, and more. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 10 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He has authored many books and video courses covering Jira. He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
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Working with outgoing mail


Like 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. Browse to the JIRA administration console.

  3. Select the System tab and then the Outgoing Mail option. This will bring up the Outgoing Mail page:

Note

You can have only one outgoing mail server in JIRA.

Adding an outgoing mail server

There are two ways of adding an outgoing mail server in JIRA; both options have some common configuration parameters that you will need to fill in. The following table shows these parameters:

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Patrick Li is the cofounder of AppFusions and works as a senior engineer there, specializing in integration solutions with many enterprise applications and platforms, including IBM Connections, Jive, Google Apps, and more. He has worked in the Atlassian ecosystem for over 10 years, developing products and solutions for the Atlassian platform and providing expert consulting services. He has authored many books and video courses covering Jira. He has extensive experience in designing and deploying Atlassian solutions from the ground up and customizing existing deployments for clients across verticals such as healthcare, software engineering, financial services, and government agencies.
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Description

Name

This specifies a name for the mail server.

Description

This specifies a brief description for the mail server.

From address

This specifies an e-mail address that outgoing e-mails will appear to have come from.

Email prefix

This specifies...