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Secure Source Manager can send email notifications to your login email
address for issue and pull request related events. For a full list of events
that can send notifications, see
Notifications overview.
Limitations
The following limitations apply to email notifications in
Secure Source Manager:
Email notifications aren't available for Workforce Identity Federation users.
The email address that notifications are sent to is the same as your
Secure Source Manager login email address, and can't be changed.
To enable or disable email notifications in Secure Source Manager, do the
following:
In the Secure Source Manager web interface, click the
more_vertmore options menu.
Click Notification settings.
Click the Enabled toggle to turn your notifications on or off.
Select which events you want to send you notifications.
Notifications for selected events are sent to you if you are a
participant in the issue or pull request where the event occurred. To be
notified for events where you aren't a participant, you need to watch the
individual repository.
Click Update to save your notifications settings.
Watch or unwatch a repository
To get notifications for events in a repository, even if you aren't a
participant in the issue or pull request where the event occurred, you can watch
the repository.
To watch or unwatch a repository, do the following:
Navigate to the repository you want to watch.
Click the notifications_offNotifications icon to toggle notifications on or off for the repository.
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