The other major use of outgoing mails is for JIRA to automatically send out notifications about changes to issues; for example, if an issue has been updated, you would want the issue's reporter and assignee to be notified of the change.
In this recipe, we will look at how to set up notification rules so that interested parties are notified of any changes to their issues.
You must first configure an outgoing mail server for JIRA. Refer to the Setting up an outgoing mail server recipe for details.
JIRA uses notification schemes to control who should receive notifications for a given event. JIRA comes with a Default Notification Scheme; you can choose to update this scheme directly by clicking on the Notifications link. In this recipe, however, we will be creating a new notification scheme and applying that to projects:
Proceed with the following steps to create a new notification scheme:
Navigate to Administration | Issues | Notification...