If you're receiving email notifications, you'll see notifications in your email client and be able to filter emails using the metadata.
You'll only receive email notifications if outbound email support is enabled on your GitHub Enterprise instance. For more information, contact your site administrator.
Note: If you receive both web and email notifications, you can "share" the state of the notification by automatically marking web notifications as read once you've read the corresponding email notification. To enable this shared state, you must be able to view images from 'the no-reply email address configured by your site administrator'.
If you've enabled email notifications, you'll receive multipart emails that contain both HTML and plain text copies of the email content, including Markdown, @mentions, emojis, hash-links, and more. For more information on enabling email notifications, see "Choosing the delivery method for your notifications."
Tip: If you want to only see the email text, you can configure your client to select and display plain text copy only.
The metadata of each email you receive is specific to the notification the email is addressing. To help you filter or forward notifications that GitHub Enterprise sends, header information in every email is consistent. The header information you'll see is:
Header | Information |
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From address |
This address will always be 'the no-reply email address configured by your site administrator'. |
To field |
This field connects directly to the thread. If you reply to the email, you'll add a new comment to the conversation. |
Cc address |
GitHub Enterprise will Cc you if you're subscribed to a conversation. The second Cc email address matches the notification reason. The suffix for these notification reasons is the no-reply email address configured by your site administrator. The possible notification reasons are:
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mailing list field |
This field identifies the name of the repository and its owner. The format of this address is always <repository name>.<repository owner>.[hostname] . |