= Managing Bugzilla email notifications
Ben Cotton 
:revnumber: F36 onwards
:revdate: 2022-03-11
:category: Troubleshooting
:tags: How-to, Bugzilla  
:page-aliases: bugzilla/email-notifications.adoc


Bugzilla allows you to set granular email notification preferences.

== Email preferences

To set your email preferences,
go to the https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email[_Email Preferences_ tab]
of your user preferences.
You will see a grid
that allows you to select to receive notifications
based on the bug activity (rows)
and your relationship to the bug (columns).

In addition,
you can exclude notifications when you are the one making the change
or when the change is marked as a "minor update".

The _Email preferences_ tab also allows you
to ignore specific bugs.

== Watch components

If you want to get notifications for all bugs in a specific component,
go to the https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=component_watch[_Watch Components_ tab]
of your user preferences.
You can select the components you want to watch.

Watching a component will still follow the email preferences you set.

NOTE: If you are a package maintainer,
you do not need to add notifications
for the packages you maintain.
The release engineering automation will add you automatically.

== Watch specific bugs

If you want to track a specific but,
you can add yourself to the _CC_ list.

. On the bug you want to watch,
click the _Add me to CC list_ box.
. Check the _This is a minor update (do not send email)_ box.
(This step is optional,
but is a polite choice
to reduce email notifications.
If you take other actions beyond adding yourself to the CC list,
use your best judgement.)
. Click the _Save Changes_ button.