how do I disable sending email notifications on changes to a confluence page
Asked by Amit Jagdish:

Hi! I am using confluence cloud. Could you please help me with my question. Information on this [LINK](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Why-can-t-I-disable-Confluence-email-notifications/qaq-p/343932) seems to be dated. I don't see the options mentioned.  

Thanks in advance.  

:)


Answers:
author: Andrew Kendris
body: Hello Amit - great question!

From what I found, there is no way to disable the trigger of emails when a page is initially published or when edits are made and you want to notify watchers.

However, if you want to publish a page and not notify anyone (this includes both push notifications and email alerts) that is possible. In the edit screen, rather than publishing the page, you can click on the "More Actions" button next to "Close" button and you'll be presented with a dropdown where you can "publish without notifying watchers".

![Screen Shot 2021-01-11 at 2.40.34 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/125059i789DDB1D4132E294/image-dimensions/181x230?v=v2 "Screen Shot 2021-01-11 at 2.40.34 PM.png")

If you want to remove the noise of emails while still notify watchers in Confluence, my suggestion is to create a rule for your inbox to automatically move these emails to a dedicated Confluence Alerts folder and mark as "read".

Hope this helps!

comments: author: Amit Jagdish
body: Thank you for your time. Much appreciate this. This is certainly helpful. Although an overt control for the confluence page/space administrator would be more straightforward.


author: Sarah Klosterbuer
body: Andrew,

The "publish without notifying watchers" no longer appears to be an option under "More Options." Is an alternative method available now?


author: Clark Everson
body: Hi Amit,

Welcome to the Community!

When you go to edit a page there is a checkbox to click to prevent watchers from being notified about changes. Uncheck that and people won't be notified.

For other notifications this is on a per user basis <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/subscribe-to-email-notifications/>

Hope this information helps!

Clark

comments: author: Amit Jagdish
body: Thank you. Very helpful.


author: Aleksandr Shevchuk
body: Hi Clark,

is there an option to turn it off by default/globally?

Thanks,

Aleks


author: Heike S
body: Is there a possibility to uncheck this by default/globally for Confluence Server?

Thanks,

Heike


author: Sarah Klosterbuer
body: Has this option been removed? I'm not seeing a checkbox regarding watchers anywhere.


author: Marius Lex
body: To turn this option off on every single page edit is insanely time consuming. Especially since the checkbox has moved behind another button. There has to be a way to disable this globally. If not I'm seriously concerned about the future of Confluence, since this is one of the most basic features in knowledge management systems ever.  

Unfortunately only one of the many missing/unfinished features which make me think that Confluence Cloud isn't fit to be used as a knowledge management solution. I couldn't in good conscience recommend a system to a client that cannot even do this.  

[@Sarah Klosterbuer](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4817346) the checkbox has moved behind the little downward arrow next to update. It is in a popup now.


author: Nahuel Unai Rosell? Beneitez
body: Thanks for the update on the new location of the updated "don't notify via email", [@Marius Lex](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3500602).

Could this be available for the option to publish a page as well?


author: Bret Spangenberg
body: I would find it very helpful to turn off emails, for some pages, the emails are just spam.


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