How Do I Get Email Into Confluence?

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All mail messages belong to a particular space. The steps will vary depending on the version of Confluence. 

Confluence 4.0 and Earlier

From the space administration screen, space administrators can:

  • Configure Confluence to poll a POP mailbox for incoming mail using these steps: 
    1. Go to Space Admin
    2. Choose Mail Accounts
    3. Add Pop Account
  • Import mail from an mbox-format mail file

Confluence will delete mail from a POP box as it reads it. Do not point Confluence to an account unless you are happy with it removing all the mail you have stored there.

Confluence 5.0+

This functionality is not available by default. To take advantage of it, you will need to enable the Confluence Mail Archiving Plugin. Once enabled, you can configure Confluence to poll a POP mailbox for incoming mail by doing the following: 

    1. Go to Space Tools > Integrations > Mail Accounts.
    2. Click Add Mail Account.
    3. Add account as desired.
    4. Click Create.

For more details please check Mail Archives.

Confluence will delete mail from a POP box as it reads it. Do not point Confluence to an account unless you are happy with it removing all the mail you have stored there.

Last modified on Apr 13, 2023

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