How to manage email notifications in Confluence
Manage Confluence email in your profile’s Personal settings → Email → Edit, then select the updates you want and Submit.
Use Daily Digest for routine edits and choose real-time updates for the categories needing immediate attention. Space watches and autowatch determine which content can generate those emails.
Step-by-step guide
Identify why the inbox is noisy
Inspect whether unwanted messages come from one content item, a whole-space watch or autowatch. A release review comment can make you a watcher even when you never intentionally subscribed to the whole product area.
Change the personal email settings
Select your profile picture, Personal settings, then Email and Edit. Choose the wanted digest and real-time categories, review Autowatch and Notify on my actions, then Submit. An administrator can disable categories site-wide, preventing personal overrides.
Clean the watch list separately
Open your profile’s Watches settings and stop watching obsolete pages or spaces. For example, stop watching the completed release space while keeping the active incident procedure. Changing delivery cadence alone does not remove a content subscription.
Check the resulting notifications
Observe the next relevant update or digest and confirm the important categories remain useful. If emails still appear unexpectedly, inspect mentions, comments and site-wide settings rather than repeatedly toggling all email off and on.
Common mistakes
Disabling all useful updates to fix one noisy watch
Remove the unwanted subscription first, then tune cadence. Keep critical ownership and task notifications deliberate.
Sources and verification
Based on product documentation checked on 2026-11-04. This is a documentation-based guide, not a hands-on benchmark. Features and availability can change.