How to disable mail servers in Confluence
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Purpose
Confluence administrators may need to disable their mail servers in their cloned environment or production instance. At the moment, it's not possible to disable the mail server from the Confluence Admin Panel.
However, we do have CONFSERVER-41414 - Allow Confluence adminstrators to disable mail servers temporarily as a suggestion. In the mean time you can use following solution.
Solution
- Shut Down Confluence
- Add
-Datlassian.mail.senddisabled=trueaccording to Confluence System Properties. Start your instance.
To enable the mail servers again, you need to shut down your instance, remove the system argument, and restart it.
This will only disable the sending of automated emails; it will not prevent test emails from being sent manually.