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Options for reducing emails

Problem to solve

Gitlab sends out far too many emails with 90% being things that require no action or even need to be seen. Things like issue closed or milestone changed are not important for me but they make up the majority of the emails I get which sometimes causes actually important emails like comments to get lost in the noise

Intended users

Virtually all users would benefit from being able to select which types of actions send emails

User experience goal

The user should be able to remove the noise from their emails resulting in important things getting more attention.

Proposal

The best case would be a project level settings page that lists all the types of email events with a toggle to turn them off.

An alternative but probably simpler option would be to set a header in the email which lists the type of email event it is so they can be filtered. Maybe this already exists but I didn't see it in the docs.

Further details

Permissions and Security

Documentation

Availability & Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

What is the type of buyer?

Is this a cross-stage feature?

Links / references

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