Email Notifications
Community Questions sends email notifications to keep you informed about activity on questions you care about.
Watching Content
Watch a Question
Click the eye icon on any question to start watching it. You'll receive email notifications when:
- Someone posts a new answer
- Someone adds a comment
Note: Question authors automatically watch their own questions. You can unwatch at any time by clicking the eye icon again.
Watch a Space
Click the eye icon in the space header to watch an entire space. You'll receive notifications when new questions are asked in that space.
Watch All Spaces
In the global questions view, click the eye icon to watch all spaces. You'll receive notifications for all new questions asked anywhere across your Confluence instance.
Watch Tags
- Navigate to the Tags tab
- Find tags you're interested in
- Click the watch icon on each tag
You'll receive notifications when questions with those tags are asked.
Filtering Watched Questions
You can filter the questions list to show only questions you're watching:
- Go to the Questions tab
- Use the Show dropdown
- Select Watched
This helps you quickly find and track questions you care about.
Automatic Notifications
These notifications are sent automatically without requiring you to watch anything:
| Event | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Question receives upvote | Question author |
| Answer receives upvote | Answer author |
| Answer is accepted | Answer author |
| Comment added | Question/answer author |
| @mentioned | Mentioned user |
Managing Notifications
Unsubscribe
Each notification email includes an unsubscribe link at the bottom. Click it to stop receiving that specific type of notification.
Stop Watching
To stop watching content:
- Questions: Click the eye icon on the question again
- Spaces: Click the eye icon in the space header again
- Tags: Go to the Tags tab and click the watch icon again
Note: Email notifications are separate from chat integrations (Slack, Teams, Google Chat). See Integrations for setting up notifications in your team chat.