About email notifications for pushes to your repository
You can choose to automatically send email notifications to a specific email address when anyone pushes to the repository.
In this article
- Enabling email service notifications for pushes to your repository
- Disabling email service notifications for pushes to your repository
- Further reading
You'll only receive email notifications if outbound email support is enabled on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance. For more information, contact your site administrator.
Note: GitHub Services, the underlying app that allowed users to customize email notifications for pushes to repositories, will no longer be supported as of GitHub Enterprise 2.17. Starting in GitHub Enterprise 2.17, we will provide an alternative path for email notifications for pushes to repositories.
Each email notification for a push to a repository lists the new commits and links to a diff containing just those commits. In the email notification you'll see:
- The name of the repository where the commit was made
- The branch a commit was made in
- The SHA1 of the commit, including a link to the diff in GitHub Enterprise
- The author of the commit
- The date when the commit was made
- The files that were changed as part of the commit
- The commit message
You can filter email notifications you receive for pushes to a repository. For more information, see "About notification emails." You can also turn off email notifications for pushes. For more information, see "Choosing the delivery method for your notifications."
Enabling email service notifications for pushes to your repository
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On GitHub Enterprise, navigate to the main page of the repository.
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Under your repository name, click Settings.
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Click Integrations & Services.
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Click Add service, then type "Email."
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Type up to two email addresses, separated by whitespace, where you'd like notifications to be sent. If you'd like to send emails to more than two accounts, set one of the email addresses to a group email address.
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If you operate your own server, you can verify the integrity of emails via the Secret token. This token is sent with the email as the
Approvedheader. If theApprovedheader matches the token you sent, you can trust that the email is from GitHub Enterprise.
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Optionally, select Send from author to have emails delivered using the committer's email address. Otherwise, emails are sent from the no-reply email address configured by your site administrator.
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Click Add service.
Disabling email service notifications for pushes to your repository
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On GitHub Enterprise, navigate to the main page of the repository.
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Under your repository name, click Settings.
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Click Integrations & Services.
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Under "Services", next to your added email notification, click .
